stormtrooper question, GL sets it straight.

One bit of conjecture Lucas finally laid to rest was the question of how close the link between clone troopers and stormtroopers was. He told MTV in an interview that the Empire's stormtroopers in the original series were in fact more of the same clones that form the Republican army in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith – though by the time of A New Hope, stormtrooper ranks had swelled to include regular recruits as well.

"The idea is that over time, there were new clone strains introduced, and then they even conscripted guys to be Storm Troopers. So it's not just purely clones: It started out as clones, but then it got diluted over the years as they found out they could shanghai guys [more cheaply] than they could build clones."

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/613/613366p1.html

there you have it...lucas finally says that SOME stormtroopers are indeed clones and that there are also inlisted people...

werd.

Well that's right homefry.

Well, tha changes things! For the better, also.

So Lucas has finally said what everybody with a brain already knew... It could not have been any other way.

Originally posted by Fishy
So Lucas has finally said what everybody with a brain already knew... It could not have been any other way.

That explains the American accents of the stormtroopers. "Hehehe another plot hole filled in!" cackled Lucas.

I couldn't care less if some were clones, doesn't change anything for me.

Weird that Lucas actually says that as when he wrote the first scripts there weren't of course, now suddenly he states this as some fact? I hope for you this isn't SS! nono 😛

I honestly never thought about it; as being that important anyway. I imagine by Luke's time, the challenge of having military forces stationed throughout the galaxy meant heavy recruiting; these guys would join The Empire because of the heavy propaganda, believing in The Imperial line of human superiority to non-human forms, having the type of personality to fit fascist dictatorships. Someone like Luke wanted to join up just to escape humdrum life on Tatooine, however. I could see clone forces gradually getting replaced by then.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Well, tha changes things! For the better, also.

Yup; it also explains some of the troop's idiotic shooting.

The reason it needed stating so is because the best indication of GL's view that we had previously is that he thought they were all Clones, and we were kinda stuck with that. Him clearly specifying otherwise is handy for matters logical.

People actually thought they remained being cloned? The clones were just a quick way to get an army.. Then when there was a galactic dictatorship established Palpatine could do everything, even build more than giant death stars.

SW Insider said that GL had said the stormtroopers were all Clones. That being the case, what people thought seemed neither here nor there. But a more direct reference from GL saying otherwise is handy.

Hmm.. That's pretty odd.

It was pretty obvious they weren't all clones. And that God that it's now canon.

Still it proves that we shouldn't take it all too serious (all that canon 😘 ), there should be 'interpretation of your own' allowed. (my.. that's a weird way to formulate a sentense.. Damn..)

We can only ever act with the information we have, you know.

Yes, if Lucas told us, the stormtroopers were actually all monkeys we would all be calling it canon! Hurray for canon!
And the force should be totally explained too doesn't it before we can talk about it?

BTW: Didn't we get to see at least some stormtroopers unmasked? Maybe when Solo and Skywalker steal some suits or something? (just suggesting something don't attack me)

No no, what GL said according to Insider, was that all stormtroopers are Clones, but that by the time of the OT they were from many different templates. So they weren;t all Jangos.

And taking something to a ridiculous extreme like that is pointless. The fact is, we had indication that GL had decided on one way about the Clones, now we hav a better indication that it is the other. That a simple, rational and methoodical approach to discovering facts, that can only ever work on the best info we have available at the time.

I got that already, so what about my last post? Are there ever any stormtroopers unmasked in the movies? If so, the whole insider statement would have been stupid.

Why? My point was answering that one.