If you have not had the chance to read Amy Ratcliffe’s interview with Dave Filoni at Nerdist you really should. Flioni talks about bringing The Clone Wars series to an end and explains away the Order 66 plot hole in detail.
Filoni discusses many aspects of The Clone Wars‘ final season, including the supposed change in Rex’s chip removal. When Rex later explains the removal of his chip to Kanan in Rebels, he doesn’t go into any of the detail viewers witness in The Clone Wars season 7. There’s no mention of Ahsoka’s involvement, and it’s almost implied it happened prior to Order 66 being given. This why some consider what Clone Wars chose to show as creating a plot hole in regards to what Rebels already established, but Filoni doesn’t agree. He explains,
“When you reach him in Rebels and he says, ‘I took out my control chip’ to Kanan as a way of explaining that we all can make a choice. I think he sees that as true and I think it’s one way that he’s coped with things. He did get it removed. Kanan doesn’t need to know the minute details of Rex’s life.
I think that’s where you can get hung up on continuity so much that you don’t actually tell a story that’s about real people. So Rex at that moment tells Kanan the point of view Kanan needs to understand who Rex is and what he’s really about. Later on, do they have a scene where they get into the truth of it that was a lot scarier? Probably, but I think Kanan also knows that.”
Read the interview in full here.
