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Originally posted by: MagnoliaFan
I'm kinda of the mind that they were Clones for a while, but eventually, Palpatine got tired of spending th money producing more and started to force the people of various worlds into his servitude, so while there are still some of the original clones as storm troopers (ie: the head whacking), there are also a lot of guys who are Joe Blow off the street, who don't want to be there.
It would explain why they are so skilled in EP II, and can't hit the broad side of a barn with an ion cannon by EP IV.
In the Attack of the Clones commentary he referes to them as stormtroopers. He also mentions that when Jango knocked his head its a refference to the fact that one of his clones knok there head in A New Hope. This is absolute proff that at least some of the original trilogy stormtroopers are clones of Jango Fett. It really makes sense that they would be clones of Jango Fett. Also I think "Aren't you alittle short for a stormtrooper" is definutly proff of them being clones. Leia looks at him and is not afraid. She know stormtroopers were coming to kill her and appeared a bit flirty to Luke. Not normal behavior if she believed they were there to kill her. Liea oviously saw that he was the wrong size and could not be a stormtrooper. Showing they are all the same. They are all clones of Jango.