We saw a Star War! Last Jedi spoiler thread
I think it was all they had left. Pretty sure they called out the fact that they were kinda crappy.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Honestly, this has never really been a concern in Star Wars. "Relax, kid. It ain't that kind of movie."
Yeah, if those bombers showed up on The Expanse I'd have a problem. But in Star Wars they're par for the course.
MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
Weren't those lost by shoddy reckless tactics?
Ryujin
Legend
Were they all that they had left? I didn't get that impression. I thought that they were just recalled because they were dropping like flies.
Even in the Cowboys and Indians universe of Star Wars, some things can be just too silly.
They were lost by recklessness while being used as intended, it would seem. The idea of 'bombing' something other than a stationary target just seems silly to me. Even unguided rockets make more sense.
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billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Indeed. But everyone's got a different profile for too silly. Is this to the level of All Terrain-Armored Transports that can probably not handle more than a featureless plain silliness? Or seedy bar denizens named Elan Sleazebaggano selling "deathsticks" silliness? Maybe it's a ships executing banking turns in space level of silliness? Or a giant space slug having sufficient atmosphere in its mouth that someone can engage in EVA without a spacesuit silliness?
There's a whole lot of silliness in Star Wars if you poke at it a bit, just like there is in the movies and serials that inspired it from Tarzan, to Hidden Fortress, to Buck Rogers and all points in between.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
...throwing antique equipment against an enemy who is already at Battle Stations usually goes badly...
(The SW staff clearly does not have a student of History among them, but this discussion sounds like a description of the Vindicator glide-bomber squadron at the Battle of Midway, 1942: 100% casualties, 0 damage to enemy.)
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
Lucas is the only director I can think of who tried to preach at the audience but wound up making them laugh instead.
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