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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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You're not wrong but the movies did a crap job of it. It's always better to show us something than tell us, and it told us they are good shots but showed us they suck. For basically all 3 movies.
They did show them sweeping through a horrificly deadly funnel defended by relatively well covered rebels and toasting them with no issues is the very first scene of the movie. The assault on the Tantove IV was basically suicide, and they still mopped up like it was Tuesday. The double reveal, by both Leia and Tarkin, is more than sufficient to make the point, instead of a hamfisted scene earlier of Vader giving them orders not to kill and eliminating all the tension from the escape.
That's partly true, but I wouldn't say the assault was "basically suicide" when they had an entire Star Destroyer full of storm troopers boarding a ship that fits in the docking bay. Even if they went 2 for 1 on losses, the Empire still wins with "minimal losses" comparatively. There just isn't much screen time of them being exceptionally good soldiers.
I wasn't suggesting we should see Vader telling them to miss, just thinking it would be nice to see more storm troopers being bad-asses throughout the films. It felt like most of the time the Empire won a fight throughout the entire original trilogy was by bringing overwhelming numbers and firepower more than the troops being especially good. The opening scenes even felt like to me.
Did you see all the troopers on the ground again?
They just threw bodies at it. Also, it’s not hard to hit somebody when they’re standing in a straight hallway grouped up like a bunch of morons caught out of cover. Absolutely idiotic that nobody tossed a grenade in.
Then clearly told us why.