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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8793623" data-attributes="member: 4937">Sure there are a few scenes of that, often involving Han or Luke, where the troopers suddenly lose the ability to conduct accurate fire even at close range - Han running into a room full of Storm Troopers (made worse in the Special edition when it goes from like 10 to like 100) or Luke swinging across the chasm in the Death Star after the blast door has been cranked part way open.  But even so, there is a qualitative difference between the presentation of the Scout Troopers on Endor back handing Solo and engaging in a running battle with the heroes and the ones on the speeder bikes in the final episode of season 1 of the Mandalorian.  There is a qualitative difference between the presentation of Storm Troopers in the original movies, who aside from one or two moments do tend to win any battle that is remotely equal, and the Mandalorian having a mere Army Trooper talking openly about Storm Troopers being poor shots.  There is a huge qualitative difference between the presentation of Darth Vader, Moff Tarkin, and the rest of the Imperial Leadership, and the presentation of General Hux in The Last Jedi - who goes full Cobra Commander in the opening scene and is so bad at his job that they had to make an unplanned nearly 4th wall breaking plot point of it in the final movie.</blockquote>