Probably the best depiction of Order 66 yet. The way Cal interacts with the clones before the whole thing goes down really makes it feel like a genuine betrayal. Can’t imagine the hurt and confusion
The part that hit me was when Jaro Tapal tells Cal to “hold the line and wait for the Jedi councils signal”. Jaro died thinking that order 66 was possibly isolated or only a few Jedi were affected by this. The reality was is that when he died, Mace along with all the council members at the temple were dead. Plo Koon and Mundi killed in the field, Obi wan was swimming in a lake bed and Grand master yoda on the run with only the Wookiees for support. The Jedi were doomed and there would be no support from the council or anyone else for that matter.
Technically Mace Windu went to Confront Palpatine with a Group of Jedi Masters After Being told By the shortly to be Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker That Palpatine Was The Sith lord all along and that Group of Jedi were all Killed by Palpatine
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Didn't Obi-wan and Yoda go to the Temple and recalibrate the signal, warning surviving Jedi to stay away from the Temple.?
It broke my heart to see cal had genuine friendships with these clone, especially the high fiveing one. Respawn did a great job making 66 feel like the tragic betrayal that it really is
It's not a betrayal, it's a tragedy. If you watch Clone Wars last season, clones had no power over it and being used like that to kill their friends is tragic.
@@sonicgen20 Mate, in the scene where Cal has to open the blast doors, one clone trooper stands behind Tapal for at least 30 seconds without shooting at him. Look at this video again and check it out. The dude on the right who comes with him through the door. xD
I love how perfectly they characterize Jaro Tapal here, and by extension Kal via the training he recieved from him. Jaro is clearly an absolute powerhouse feared for his physical prowess even among jedi. It seems he opted to train Kal from the front lines and mold him into a capable physical fighter which reflects Kal's general attitude and fighting style well I feel like. Also "we trained for this" and the way he was prepared. This dude had a contingency plan prepared for this shit which is clearly more than most jedi. Even Kal seems not as freaked out as he should be in the moment, likely because he was told this was a possibility.
even if that is/isnt true, kal is probably just experiencing pure shock more than anything at this point. and shock, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally blunts blows that would make your mental health explode (such as being shot at without hesitation by someone who literally gave you high fives not even 10 minutes beforehand)
I think cal mightve been in shock but yea. Jaro was a highly respected Master and known for his strategies. He was also strong in the Force. You can see when 66 was issued, he felt the deaths and cries of his fellow jedi.
You can tell that if he wasn't so distracted by Cal, Jaro would 100% have just causally walked out of the ship with no effort. I mean even at 7:00 he just strolls through multiple clones as if they were nothing. And lifts one up without breaking stride before walking out. (though I will say that the choreography for that scene looked janky af such as the one clone INCHES behind Jaro as the door opens makes little sense to me. He should have ran in after instead of already being close to him.)
@@TheDeathMare I know this comment is a month old on a two year old video but glad to see that I'm not the only person who noticed how awkward and janky the combat looks in the scenes with Jaro and the scene with Cere. It just has zero fluidity to it and it looks so bad compared to how fluid the combat can be in the actual game.
Guys it's not the chips, it's also the clones itself, clones from some battalions wanted to do order 66 due to lack of protection from their jedi generals.
I love how starting from 4:45 there is no dramatic background music, just the sound of the alarm echoing through the ship. We know what's unfolding back on Coruscant and across the galaxy through the montage from Revenge of the Sith. But here, it's just a little boy scrambling to stay alive and figure out what's going on. Feels so much more intimate, lonely, and terrifying
@@fatboy6441 don’t worry us true star wars fans will never see it as cannon untill disney lets lucas recreate his trilogy that they threw to the trash i heard supposedly it will happen so all we can do is have Hope, not just any hope but A New Hope!
GlitterFairyLilo true but they are still further along in maturation due to them being fully developed, so their brain chemistry is more along the lines of a normal person than a child, they just lack world experience, but they don’t need it being trained to kill exclusively
To be fair, the chip was messing with his head and making him seem like he was going crazy. But ya, really sad he died before he could save the Jedi and his brothers from what we knew was coming
I think my favourite part about this scene is that when you see Sidious give the order, Tapal recoils because he can feel what's happening through the force. It gives the impression that Sidious' words didn't just activate the inhibitor chips and start Order 66, they were like a wave of energy rippling across the Force, as if the words "Execute Order 66" convey so much power and fear that every Jedi felt it all at once
I doubt the order was issued at the exact same time for everyone, it would be relayed throughout the galaxy. He is most likely sending the death of the Jedi like yoda did
OBJECTION! With all due respect, it’s not the words that made him recoil, it’s the waves through the force, he felt the imbalance as Jedi were dying, not all of the clones get the order at the same time, so he was clearly one of the last.
The fact that Respawn used Anakin's Betrayal for this scene from Revenge of The Sith had me fucking sobbing. They clearly care about the world and motives of Star Wars. Best scene in the game.
Those clone interactions are just perfect. Especially the high five and the comander laughing at Cals comment. It's sad that Cal lost both his friends and his master in one moment and didn't even know the reason the clones attacked.
Surely this was someone's very first encounter with Order 66. Completely fresh-faced, never having seen the old movies, no possible way of predicting what was about to happen, utterly oblivious to every hint. Must've been an insane experience.
7:05 I like how that one clone trooper just waited next to Master Tapal till the door opens and after that he just walked with his weapon and didn't shoot even once.
This is an intense leason to learn. Major props to Cameron Monaghan. He voice act a believable young Cal voice while also putting a lot of heart and soul into these emotional scenes. Great actor and amazing writers. Travis also was amazing as Cal's master
This made me imagine this from the clone's perspectives. They are suddenly compelled by some force they don't understand to murder the people they respected and admired. Heroes are forced to kill children. It's really, really dark.
Meanwhile Anakin has no bio-chip and does it because an old guy told him to. And because executing unarmed children that look to you for hope and guidance in their darkest hour is really easy.
@@almalone3282 what ? He was told he could save her in the middle of revenge of the sith . That's the entire reason he went to the dark side 😂 He didn't want to lose padme like he lost everything.
Wow, Clones are so friendly especially when seeing Cal and the trooper are doing high five. I mean, seeing how Cal and the clones were pals made this hurt even more.
It was the inhibitor chips that forced them to betray the Jedi, although some clones would follow orders, those that served with the Jedi likely wouldn’t had they not had inhibitor chips
@@u.npeacekeeperball432 that is the "Disney revisionism". basically the writers of the children's series "The Clone Wars" weren't talented enough to stay on canon, so they had to invent these chips. let me explain: The Jedi do not come off looking especially sympathetic in Episodes I-III themselves. Take those movies in isolation, and it’s frankly not hard to imagine the clones turning on them in what is essentially a coordinated slave revolt.[1] No doubt many Jedi would find this confusing, as they generally thought they treated the clones well.[2] And in fact, many of the Jedi in the Order 66 montage do seem rather confused why their men suddenly turned on them. But from the clone perspective, this isn’t really hard to see. The idea that the Jedi valued the clones as people, and that somehow makes their slavery okay, is so close to the noxious myth of the “good master” that it hardly needs explaining, but just to be clear: “I just want you to know, Trooper, that I don’t see you as a clone. You’re a man, a human being, to me. You have a distinct impression in the Force, just as unique as any other being. I know you’re being treated unjustly by the Republic and I can’t change that, but I want you to know: I’ll be right here alongside you, facing the same dangers you do.” “I appreciate that, General. Frankly, nobody asked us if we wanted to fight this war, or even if we wanted to be soldiers, and … well, we don’t, Sir. I take it, then, that you’ll look the other way if me and the boys just disappear next leave?” “Oh, no. That would be desertion, which is a capital crime. I mean, who would stop the Separatists from seceding? Republic citizens? Ha ha. Good one, Trooper.” “I … see, Sir.” The prequels are enough of a mess that it’s not entirely clear what’s going on with Order 66. I think the slave revolt angle is a valid reading, but like Joseph Reinemann said, the first thing we’re told about the clones is that they’re programmed - somehow - to follow orders. We don’t see enough of them in action to really figure out what that looks like. But in The Clone Wars, we do, and we start running into problems. One of the things TCW really wants to be clear about is that clones are thinking individuals whi are very different from droids. Clones are people, and, more importantly, they’re sympathetic protagonist characters. You’re supposed to react to their deaths as you would react to the death of a person (whereas droid deaths are supposed to range from neutral to positive to funny). Thus, whatever the Kaminoans meant by clones being “programmed,” the show cannot allow clones to be seen as unthinking or subservient automatons. At best, the Kaminoans were just wrong about how good their brainwashing is (yay, plucky human spirit!); at worst, the clones must have been programmed in some other way. The Clone Wars also wants to present the Jedi as good guys. In the prequels that isn’t really necessary; after all, Anakin kind of hates the Jedi and he’s supposed to be sympathetic (a goal the films … struggle to achieve). But in TCW the Jedi are supposed to be the good guys. Flawed good guys, good guys who struggle at times with the moral demands of war, but good guys. It’s really hard to simultaneously present someone as a good guy - and even a flawed good guy - and a slave overseer. TCW does explore this idea some, and I’m frankly still awed that they did it as much as they did. But you know what’s even harder than presenting a slave overseer as a flawed good guy? Presenting someone whom the other heroes see as a slave overseer as a flawed good guy. Some clones - ones we never see for more than a single arc - make the slavery charge anyway. Exhibit A: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uL4AKhNfJDc.html But while nobody ever actually refutes Slick’s charge that the Jedi enslave the clones - ever, in the entire series - the show doesn’t exactly dwell on it. The slavery angle is there if you want to see it, but the eleven year olds this show was aimed at aren’t supposed to come away from it feeling that the heroic Captain Rex and Commander Cody resent Obi-Wan for enslaving them and would happily shoot him in the back if they thought they could do so without putting their brothers at risk. So we have a dilemma. We want to present clones as sympathetic, free-thinking heroes, most of whom definitely do not resent the Jedi as slavers (shhhhhh, pay no attention to the slavery behind the curtain). This being the case, how are we to explain Order 66? Enter the bio-chip. Problem sorted. Personally, while I do understand the business logic of not presenting an entire TV series in which the viewer is constantly reminded that the clones view every single Jedi except for Anakin (the former slave) through the lens of a master-slave relationship, I dislike the chip solution. It’s an elegant solution to the problem, if you want most clones not to resent their lot in life at a bone-deep level. I just don't see why you would want to do that. Tender sensibilities of the younger audience aside, I mean. Yes, that would mean the Jedi fought an entire war almost entirely blind to the fact that they were perpetrating a monstrous evil of historic proportions on thinking, reasoning human beings. Yes, that would be a truly reprehensible thing for the Jedi to do. Yes, it would require the Jedi to have almost stupefying levels of self-importance not to see that, whatever the Jedi thought of their relationship, the clones thought of themselves as slaves. But isn’t that the point? That Palpatine wanted the Jedi not only to die, but to thoroughly disgrace themselves before they did? To do it of their own free will? To prove that they really aren’t morally superior to the Sith in any way, but are too far up their own asses even to be honest about it? Isn’t that Palpatine’s plan? Isn’t all that what Palpatine is supposed to be thinking when he says ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yJZp7I3wZJU.html and isn’t all that supposed to be the deeper meaning behind Yoda’s line when he says ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zfvxi15ljuQ.html ? But I mean, sure, whatever, Jedi have to be good guys.
Order 66 is one of those fictional events which never ceases to break my heart no matter how many times I see it happen, because you always get reminded of how tragic the whole thing was
3:30: the sound of blasters could mean they wasn´t the only jedi aboard the ship...so the clones killed the others in different sectors of the ship. That makes this whole scene more scary, because that means Kal Kestis was the only jedi survivor in the whole ship.
I doubt there were more. We see in season 7 of TCW the clones also shot the droid assigned to the Jedi themselves, so they probably just destroyed their astromechs.
This was actually pretty tense almost a horror scene, like damn imagine this: clones you've trusted are now trying to murder you for unknown reasons, your master is separated from you, the only basic skills you can trust to survive were the ones you were taught, order 66 might just be the darkest period in Star Wars
@@jeremytoth7635 in the trailers for clone wars season 7 it shows Ahsoka dueling maul in the Ahsoka book this is when order 66 was executed and her and Rex faked their deaths
It's amazing to think about all of the events that are happening simultaneously as this scene plays out tbh -Obi-Wan had just destroyed Grevious -Anakin just helped Papatine kill Windu and became Vader -Ahsoka was on her way back to Coruscant with Maul in custody -The Bad Batch watched as their fellow soldiers turned against their Jedi general It's mind blowing how much is going on in the galaxy at this very moment
Or perhaps the person who issued the order to the clones(note: anyone can issue that order) would not be treated as an enemy. Anakin issued the order to the 501st, that’s why they don’t attack him.
Man if it wasn't for Anakin and his stupid retarded choice to kill Windu Cal's life would've been completely different he ruined a lot of other Jedi even Padawans' lives.
The scene where they’re pinned down at the escape pod is masterfully done. When Tapal is getting shot at and Cal hides behind him, he looks at his padawan and knows that he must sacrifice himself to save Cal. Very well done
Jaro Tapal was hardcore. I was already ecstatic at the propsect of a Lasat Jedi and it just got better when he showed how much of a badass he was. Definitely proof that Order 66 would have gone a lot differently if the Jedi hadn't been so caught off-guard.
They should do a short hour and a half thriller that starts as Order 66 commences. There’s so much they could do with that moment and so many perspectives to explore I’d love to see that
Yeah a game with a Jedi Storyline about a newly christened Knight and his master a human woman taking on the separatists forces, with what this game has shown it would be INCREDIBLE. I think the main character should be an alien, i'm thinking Cerean like Ki Adi Mundi but with a green lightsaber and clearly younger. I would also want to play on some of less featured Clone War's planets especially Mygeeto in addition to Saleucami and new worlds we haven't seen.
Been playing through Fallen Order and I actually cried at this. I seriously did not expect it. When 'that score' kicked in I couldn't stop myself. God damn. Amazing and the most emotional scene in all of SW video games.
Watching the interactions with the clones in the beginning: “You got this kid!” *high fives* Don’t get emotionally attached, don’t get emotionally attached, don’t get emotionally attached......
It really REALLY hurts just seeing this or remembering the clone troopers like this... They were ACTUAL friends of the jedi and looked up to them and felt honor fighting among them...and just a simple order rips away their true emotions and force them to turn on those that they have become to know as friends maybe even family.
Yeah, that was pretty awesome. It's even more impressive when you realize the only other Jedi that was able to do that was Yoda. Jaro must've been really strong with the Force.
Qui_Gon12 Gaming I don’t think so because I thought this was before the events of revenge of the sith and like none of the episodes were set as it happened because it would be like half way through the movie
Qui_Gon12 Gaming ahh that makes sense now. do u reckon we will se order 66 happen but like an animated version that we be really cool to see how Rex and anakin react
What is particularly heart-wrenching for me, and what I'd like us all to remember, is that this is happening to A CHILD. Think of what Cal has to be thinking during this. "Why is this happening? Why are my friends trying to kill me? Did I do something wrong? Is this my fault? Where am I supposed to go? What do I do now?" And then his Jedi Master, his surrogate father, dies in his arms. Order 66 may perhaps be the darkest moment in Star Wars history.
Crazy cause the most sensitive force users like him and Yoda literally felt what was happening to all the jedi. Seeing it in person is always devastating but feeling it without being there is another level of pain..
Playing the game again. And got to the escape pod part. Here come the tears. No matter how many times i play this amazing game, no matter how many times i hear the amazing sound track, i always cry.
The clones acted against their will, if you watched Star Wars the clone wars animated series you’ll see that each clone is born with a chip implanted in their brain that triggers when order 66 is executed. The clones were INDEED friends with the Jedi, nut once the word was given they became just a tool in Sidious’ grand scheme.
When I remember hearing that a new Star Wars movie was coming out, this was what I imagined. But I never imagined it would be something like the Force Awakens.. This just goes to show what creative and talented storytelling the video games have. (KOTOR is the gold standard.)
It’s also amazing how well he trained Cal. He told him exactly what to do and Cal was brave enough to just say “Yes master” no questions asked he trusted his master.
I didn't expect to get sad over the trooper giving a high five to Kal, but here I am, almost on the verge of tears. That scene just hits so hard when you know what's coming.
What gets me is that nobody with the Jedi's saw Order 66 coming. You would think there would be at least a few paranoid Jedi. The ones who keep some stashes of supplies off the books just in case the unexpected happened. That shuttle you commandeered to escape that planet in? Yeah ... you didn't quite turn it in like you should have afterwards. Those credits you were given for expenses on that diplomatic mission? Yeah, I turned in some receipts I picked up off the ground and kept them. Those saber crystals you came across on your last trip to Llum ... yeah they somehow ended up in my pocket. That two weeks of R&R taken on Alderaan ... it wasn't alderaan and it wasn't R&R. It was time spent refurbishing a safe house on some planet nobody has heard of.
@@superdave8248 many Jedi did indeed do what you just described. Not that they ever thought the order would do anything to them. but Stuff happens when your a gloried government peace keeper with magic powers. Enemy's abound. and if the Mandalorians proved anything its that you don't need the dark side to kill Jedi! not to mention Hutt Crime syndicates. and there were PLENTY of Ex Jedi. and Estranged Jedi like Master Qui Gon was. Still part of the order, but kept at a distance do to their beliefs. Sadly all those side preparations did not help a great deal of them. Vader's Jedi hunts and his inquisitors tracked them all down. most because they still made use of the force. it was only Jedi that went into total exile, Like master Yoda did, or ones who Completely stopped using the force at all, like Kanen and Cal did. that kept them alive.
@@germfreepizzawi1839 he'd make a great sith lord. Imagine a scene where he says that as he's avenging a fallen sith comrade, Jedi civil war era or something
Narratively speaking, even tho Jedi don’t make attachments or whatever, Master Tapal was as close as a father figure as he could be, so it is extremely sad and tragic that he lost his life saving his apprentice (or son if you want to see it that way)
@@louiswoodward8937 I blame EVERYONE after that whole thing with Syfo-dyas. By the time the show got to that arc, they should have had more than enough information to figure out what was going on, if they'd spent 2 seconds actually thinking about any of it.
It was Anakin's fault and the Jedi Council's fault. Fives said he knew of a separatist plot against the Jedi, but Anakin thought he was mad and didn't believe him (unlike Rex) and never bothered to tell anyone. Then Kenobi and Anakin found out Dooku built the clone army and told the council who decided to cover it up. If Anakin had listened to Fives then things would have been a lot different.
