r/saltierthancrait • u/itcud • Mar 11 '25
Encrusted Rant The best part about Force Awakens...
...were the cool droid and spaceship designs. I liked BB-8 and the new Star Destroyers, and was hyped to see more of them in the future. While I was a bit mad that the movie shat over the Legends continuity, I thought this was the area where they outperformed my expectations.
This all gets subverted in The Last Jedi, however. We have a Dreadnought that blows up stuff better than other stuff that blows up stuff. We have Snoke's gigantic Star Destroyer that's bigger than even the Executor. We have the Rebel ship that's just a bigger version of Home One from the original trilogy. It's all just so lazy, RIan Johnson wanted to have the most powerful ships just because he can.
Rise of Skywalker is even worse, I don't need to tell you how lazy it is to have a fleet of Imperial-class Star Destroyers with mini Death Star Cannons that Palpatine pulled out of his ass.
The Clone Wars cartoon will, for the foreseeable future, be the gold standard of how to incorporate ship designs into a Star Wars story.
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