Kronk wrote:
In an oddly related story, at this year's DCon I got on the elevator in my armor and was joined by a jedi. For some reason the doors took an incredibly long time to close. So I raised my hand, made a swiping motion in front of the controls and said, "Close." The doors closed immediately (dumb luck, I assure you) and the Jedi goes, "Hey, that's my job!"
I looked at the guy with a smug smile on my face and said, "The Force is strong with this one."

That's awesome Kronk!!
And you're right Tarim-Rex! Pretend you are their friend, then shoot them in the back. That always bothered me, fight with them for 3 years, then turn around and shoot 'em.
In Karen Travis's book "Order 66", they go more in-depth on the relationships between the Clones and the Jedi. Some Jedi treated the Clones badly, others treated them first rate. Some of the higher level Clones- ARCs and Commandos questioned the orders to kill the Jedi. What's left out of the movie was that palpty brought in several battalions of new clones, ones that had not been raised on Kamino. Those were the main ones that killed the Jedi. Anakin's 501st was all the new batch.
The Clones would complain that the Jedi would just throw them into battle, not seemingly to care if they lived or died. Again supposedly why they had no problems whacking certain Jedi. Ki Ada Mundi for example. They did leave out why they whacked Aalya Secura, or why Cody turned on Obi-Wan, who treated him like a brother.
In the books, they Jedi are uber bad ass. "Shatterpoint" w/ Mace Windu, he was one baaad mo-fo. After reading that book, him getting hit with sith lightning, hand cut off and tossed out a window, nahhh, that wouldn't have taken him out.
As far as a machine gun taking out Jedi- shot in the back if they didn't detect the thoughts first. Otherwise, I'm thinking that the more powerful ones could easily detect and deflect the high speed projectiles and then crush or pull the weapons from the attackers.
The show only energy blasts being deflected, not projectiles, it would make for an interesting topic, wouldn't it?

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