Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

The thing is though, the Stormtroopers weren’t even semi competent - they were easily beaten by just a farm boy and a princess, neither of which would have really had much combat experience - with no explanation why they were so bad apart from the rubbishy escapist storyline.

The Battle Droids were done a bit better in that they were at least designed to be as cheap as possible to manufacture and store because the Neimoidians were tightwads, but they were even more inferior to Light Side Troops, especially as they had the crack squads of Clone Troopers in this trilogy.

The first high-quality evil Troops we ever got was in Rogue One with the Death Troopers, who were pretty strong, but they were just an elite sect of bodyguards in a faction that primarily used hordes of far weaker troops.

What I meant is that if we had had the Sith Troopers as a faction-wide army, not just an elite squad, at the beginning of the trilogy and had them not only be described as extremely good, but also prove themselves to be such, proving to be a real menace towards the heroes, it would be the first time where the good guys were against an obviously superior enemy, like the Yaut-ja in the Predator franchise. This would then have made the whole villain faction a genuine threat for once, and given us more concern for the heroes as they try to fight their way free of these superior foes.

I do agree that the Finn and Phasma arc was one of the few interesting things in the Sequel Trilogy and was dreadfully rushed in implementation, and perhaps this could be kept in and explored in more detail, but what I was talking about was if we had a just better quality villain army for once, it would have made things a lot more interesting.

What we got instead were regular Empire-based Stormtroopers that were allegedly ‘trained from birth’ yet were outshot by an untrained girl with a cheapo blaster pistol and Praetorian Guards who couldn’t beat said untrained girl and a Vader wannabe despite having weapons that could parry and deflect Lightsabers.

 

@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl

 

You'll have to do better than that to tempt me to the Dark Side

 

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