For a long time, the Stormtroopers were Star Wars’ running joke. The Empire’s hired goons have a tendency to do what hired goons always do: get thumped by the heroes en masse. After a brief bout of competency in the opening of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, they slip into expected form to the point where they — and the Empire itself — are undone by a tribe of teddy bears with pointy sticks. More recent Star Wars projects such as Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Andor provide a beautiful bit of retconning by demonstrating exactly how the Empire’s elite soldiers fell into disrepair. The move allows the joke to remain while integrating it seamlessly into the Star Wars universe.Ahsoka Season 1, Episode 6, “Part Six: Far, Far Away,” resurrects the concept of intimidating Stormtroopers with Admiral Thrawn’s Night Troopers, using swift, effective methods to convey the extent of their menace. Besides enhancing Thrawn’s big live-action entrance, it helps make Stormtroopers an evolving concept, growing and changing with the galaxy’s political developments. As world-building, it’s fantastically effective while bringing a new dimension to Star Wars’ beloved cannon fodder.George Lucas famously imbued A New Hope with a strong sense of swashbuckling adventure, in keeping with the likes of the Buster Crabbe’s Flash Gordon serials and Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars novels. The Stormtroopers are a big part of that — the equivalent of the palace guards who attack in large groups and invariably get thumped by the heroes. A New Hope establishes them as a threat in the opening scene when they efficiently wipe out the Rebels in the Blockade Runner. From there, however, it’s all downhill, as Luke Skywalker and his friends outfox them, out-fight them and ultimately leave them eating the Millennium Falcon’s dust.RELATED: Ahsoka Just Made This Obscure Group Star Wars’ Most Powerful
For a long time, the Stormtroopers were Star Wars’ running joke. The Empire’s hired goons have a tendency to do what hired goons always do: get thumped by the heroes en masse. After a brief bout of competency in the opening of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, they slip into expected form to the point where they — and the Empire itself — are undone by a tribe of teddy bears with pointy sticks. More recent Star Wars projects such as Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Andor provide a beautiful bit of retconning by demonstrating exactly how the Empire’s elite soldiers fell into disrepair. The move allows the joke to remain while integrating it seamlessly into the Star Wars universe.
Ahsoka Season 1, Episode 6, “Part Six: Far, Far Away,” resurrects the concept of intimidating Stormtroopers with Admiral Thrawn’s Night Troopers, using swift, effective methods to convey the extent of their menace. Besides enhancing Thrawn’s big live-action entrance, it helps make Stormtroopers an evolving concept, growing and changing with the galaxy’s political developments. As world-building, it’s fantastically effective while bringing a new dimension to Star Wars’ beloved cannon fodder.
George Lucas famously imbued A New Hope with a strong sense of swashbuckling adventure, in keeping with the likes of the Buster Crabbe’s Flash Gordon serials and Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars novels. The Stormtroopers are a big part of that — the equivalent of the palace guards who attack in large groups and invariably get thumped by the heroes. A New Hope establishes them as a threat in the opening scene when they efficiently wipe out the Rebels in the Blockade Runner. From there, however, it’s all downhill, as Luke Skywalker and his friends outfox them, out-fight them and ultimately leave them eating the Millennium Falcon‘s dust.
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