Rex Loses It

#clonewars #StarWars
Captain Rex loses it when Ezra tells him that he would have been a good soldier in the Clone Wars. Surprisingly, Rex says that good soldiers follow orders, even though Rex contradicts this in The Umbara arc. Captain Rex clearly has PTSD from The Clone Wars due to losing many of his clone trooper brothers.

[zackanderson]

I think Rex knows that you shouldn’t follow every order like your a slave, but I think he also knows Ezra is pretty reckless and his “out of the box” thinking is a bit TOO out of the box for the mission, also I imagine Rex’s shoulders and chest must hurt after getting shot there so many times

[primal]

I honestly feel bad for Rex, he survived through it all and he watched so many of his brothers and all the Jedi who were his friends die, except Ashoka Tano.

[BovineDesigns]

Seeing Ezra get knocked down a peg for being an impetuous child is so satisfying.

[StrykeSZN]

rex flipped cuz he cares about ezra and didn’t want him to get hurt

[AdmiralStoicRum]

The thing was ezra calling himself a good soldier. That is what made him snap. Ezra gave no reasonable excuse to deviate from a time critical action. Ezra wasn't there yet to be able to deviate from the mission and be considered in good judgement and instead jeopardized the whole thing.

[galen]

Battles leave scars. Some you can't see.

[ethanjaubert]

It's true that there are some orders you can disobey for a greater good but there is also orders you need to follow no matter what here Rex told Ezra what he needed to hear because in a war or any conflict you can't be impulsive even if you are a Jedi

[evildeku]

Rex is probably the only one that got shot more then one time gets choked and still alive even after order 66

[Anglomachian]

To be fair to Rex, there is a context to what he's saying. Following the plan and blindly listening to superiors is not the same thing, but are often conflated as "follow orders." You can jeopardise your teammates by not following the plan.

[sokagofferenginar]

Rex is usually a very calm individual even when angry so you know someone had to mess up like Ezra did for Rex to lose it like that

[marcosw]

Following orders is different than taking the initiative or applying strategy and tactics. Which is y he told Ahsoka "Experience outranks everything." And Ezra does NOT have that.

[chillysea]

As Kanan sort of follows with I think Rex was having a sort of panic attack here. Getting ptsd from the war and shit.

[uniformtrain]

Mind you when someone goes into PTSD it's like a song stuck in your head and unless you finish it it's just gonna keep on coming I don't think he ever dealt with the loss of... everyone and at that moment I think that he realizes that he truly is alone that all of his brothers were dead, (Except for Gregor and wolf) and I mean like he is fair because if we look at the lightsaber battles from the firsts movie and the last it shows how much of there lightsaber arts were lost, and I just went off on a very long tangent.

[wayneproduction]

Poor Rex lost his brothers cause of order 66

[tk-]

'A good soldier follows orders' Now where have I heard that before? I love that the droids have their own version now 'Orders are Orders'.

[Spoomis]

I think a good soldier follows orders, but also questions them.

[isaacschmitt]

Rex: Good soldiers follow orders!

Kanan: Wait, I've seen this one before.

[michaelyoung]

A good soldier follows orders. A good man can think for himself, and consider the good of others.

[bowenorcutt]

Every single time I rewatch *that* scene in Landing at Point Rain, I can't help but think, "Is it any wonder the poor man has PTSD later?"

[nuyabuisness]

A droid follows commands, a soldier chooses discipline and honor.