i'm also deeply anti-military, and the show can be such a tire-fire, but for me the clone wars fandom has been a really excellent place to explore anti-military sentiment. it's SUCH an unbelievably shitty lot the clones have, they don't deserve ANY of it, and basically it's begging for all the soap boxes and anvil-dropping :P. i've got a plot bunny based on the attack of the dead men in wwi, which squarely places the clones as the hobnailed boot of the republic coming down on ppl who have a legitimate political grievance. but then like, the clones are also victims of the regime, far moreso than, eg, your average american enlistee is of US imperialism. it's such a fun mess of moral complexity and it drives me N U T S that the show never finds the courage to properly explore it.

man i've been playing with my little clone GI joes for going on six... seven? years now. for all its faults SW is uniquely timeless. *insert essay about modern mythology here*