In defence of Ahsoka
Spoilers for all of clone wars
Today I rewatched clone wars episodes 701-704 and 708-712 and while watching the last two episodes I was thinking about everyone who thinks Ahsoka was weird or wrong or whatever for releasing Maul when she didn’t want to kill clone troopers or choosing not to kill them when they were all gonna die anyway.
It’s important to note that Ahsoka doesn’t say she’s not trying to kill anyone until after removing Rex’s chip ie until she knew they weren’t attacking her out of free will. Also at that point the ship’s hyperdrive was still intact so from her point of view she probably thought she might be able to save more troopers or at the very least escape but leave the crew alive.
When she released Maul her situation was «a bunch of soldiers just started trying to kill me after I heard voices of problems and Rex told me to find Fives so right now I just need to figure out what’s going on but I won’t be able to find anything about Fives without a distraction the only option for one of these is Maul» at that point she wasn’t trying not to hurt people because as far as she’s concerned they all just started trying to kill her. However she doesn’t give Maul a lightsaber and literally says “I’m not rooting for you”
Also I don’t think it’s about not killing people, it’s about not killing clones who are acting against their wills. Before Maul escapes she even swipes her lightsaber at his neck so she probably wouldn’t have cares if she killed him then because he isn’t a good person she regards as like a brother who is being forced to act against his will, he’s the guy who destroyed the hyperdrive and who is going to have caused the deaths of everyone on board.
I also think that she was maybe trying to protect Rex, we know from Umbara that killing your own brothers is one of the worst things ever for a clone (or for Ahsoka who is like a sister to the clones for reasons I will defend in another post) so maybe she was trying to make sure that Rex didn’t have to go through having to kill his brothers while going through everything else he’s going through. Maybe idk