Spartan448 said:
Hawki said:
-X-Wings...30 plus years and we're still using X-Wings. I mean, yeah, X-Wings are cool and all, but...ugh.
The Rebel Alliance/New Republic was still using X-Wings all the way up to and beyond the Yuhzan Vong war. They're an incredibly reliable weapons platform, incredibly cheap to build and maintain, and clearly easy to train pilots on. If anything most of their production orders would be X-Wing variants. It's why the Brits had about 100,000 different variants of the Spitfire.
I don't doubt that. But I bring it up because with the EU being arbitrarily declared non-canon, it becomes a moot point. Also, the EU had the excuse of having to build up its story sequentially, whereas this is a three decade jump.
For the other points about planes, I don't doubt that. But taking the movies by themselves, we've seen evidence of how tech has developed (Ep. III-Ep. IV, with the ship designs), but for whatever reason, that jump hasn't occurred between Ep. VI to Ep. VII. Retconning the EU was something I disagreed with on principle, but I could at least understand the rationale behind it, at least as far as post-RotJ stuff goes. I know it's making a mountain out of a molehill, the film still has to succeed on the strength of its plot and characters (or fail), but all the trailer's given us is aesthetics. Pretty aesthetics, but ones I feel uncomfortable with on general principle. New trilogy, new era, new audience. So far, of what we've seen, only the "new trilogy" seems to be covered, and in name only.