Jedi-72
Sr Member
Re: Star Wars Episode VII
I don't buy the argument that it's 30 years later so everything has to look so much different. Nonsense. Throughout my entire life the United States has operated mostly the same fighters from the 1970s, with upgrades over the years of course. The backbone of our ageing and dwindling air fleet is still comprised largely of 1970s designs...the F-15, F-16, F-18, etc. Newer and vastly more expensive planes have come along, but in exceedingly low numbers and not without problems. In an infinitely more technologically advanced world, thirty years would be nothing. Hell, we're shooting for a 50 year service life with our fighters and even longer with bombers and transports. So, in a Star Wars universe, things would be lasting a heck of a lot longer. No reason at all for them to look all that different. It was one of the most obviously missed marks of the prequels. The aesthetic should have been largely the same as what was established in the OT. Slightly different perhaps, but not completely different.
I don't buy the argument that it's 30 years later so everything has to look so much different. Nonsense. Throughout my entire life the United States has operated mostly the same fighters from the 1970s, with upgrades over the years of course. The backbone of our ageing and dwindling air fleet is still comprised largely of 1970s designs...the F-15, F-16, F-18, etc. Newer and vastly more expensive planes have come along, but in exceedingly low numbers and not without problems. In an infinitely more technologically advanced world, thirty years would be nothing. Hell, we're shooting for a 50 year service life with our fighters and even longer with bombers and transports. So, in a Star Wars universe, things would be lasting a heck of a lot longer. No reason at all for them to look all that different. It was one of the most obviously missed marks of the prequels. The aesthetic should have been largely the same as what was established in the OT. Slightly different perhaps, but not completely different.