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Originally Posted by djsFlames
The new trilogy has made x-wings and tie fighters look awful. Don't know what it is but the movements and sharp turns make them look unrealistic even by SW standards. The OT ships just flew in more natural looking ways making wide, sweeping "runs" kind of like ww2 planes with limited evasive ability as displayed in the trench run. Whereas Poe can now turn on a dime in his fighter and take everyone out in seconds. It's strange to watch.
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One of the scenes that I hated the most was in TFA awakens when the Resistance fighters show up, and Poe takes out 50 tie fighters and kills 50 troopers on the ground, and Fin is screaming "What a pilot"
I thought it was such a ham fisted way to make Poe the awesome hero of the trilogy, instead it just enforced that the First Order kind of sucked at combat.
Just like the scene in the TLJ where Poe on his own stripped the dreadnought of all of its guns.
At this point frankly, there's no menace to the first order because they tend to lose every battle. You can point to the final ground battle as an overwhelming loss, but the resistance didn't lose anyone, the battleplan was we're going to knock out the front door and not worry about there possibly being a back entrance so maybe we should look for that.
There is never a great good guy without a villain to make him great. In this case, Snoke and the First Order are so incompetent that they almost appear like the Empire in the Lego Star Wars series, there's no menace to it because they're just incompetent.