[CaptainCrunch]

Its funny because they had this one great concept through the first 6 movies.

In the TPM everything was fairly bright and shiny and new looking, you look at the weapons and the ships and they had almost like a Flash Gordon feel to them with shiny surfaces and lots of color and fins.

This stayed the same for the first half of the second movie, but you began to see a lot of darker colors and duller colors and more efficient looking militaristic designs to them.

By the third movie everything in the fore ground was fairly dull colored and matted muted, and for the most part very simple. The best image was the final image of the jedi cruiser where all the colors and paint marks had been removed.

In the fourth movie, everything non imperial had a certain dusty worn down scarred appearance. Everything Imperial was gray or black but still clean and maintained. This look continued through the next movie with the exception of cloud city, but when the Empire came the lighting became almost muted and smokey.

In ROTJ it was the same thing, everything rebel related had this worn down muted look with flashed of color that almost seemed to be dulled by dust and scoring. The Empire upped the dull colors when the Emperor arrived with the exception of the Imperial guard. But even the hero's clothing had taken on a battered decidedly non maintained look. The only real explosion of color was when the Death Star exploded,

In this movie when you see the Resistance equipment and non first order equipment it not only has a worn muted look, but a lot of it looks like its on the verge of breaking. On the first order side, the only color is in the banners, and with Phasma who wears chrome even though its scarred and scuffed. Kylo's cloak looks battered and worn down as well.

I guess the message is that the galaxy is pretty much worn through by centuries of combat.