[En Sabah Nerd]

None of the new character designs for Rogue One are doing anything for me. The rebel characters are just so bland and plain so until I see the movie they're just boring human characters. The Imperial troopers though bother me in the fact that none of them were in the original films. There weren't any beaches in the OT so I get why we wouldn't have seen those guys (not that those guys seem necessary to receive unique armor since it seems like regular Stormtroopers would be beach compatible) but it's really the deathtroopers and TIE strikers that are bothering me. If these black clad Stormtrooper commando guys are supposed to be whatever elite units then why didn't we see any in the originals, or are there only going to be so many for some reason and they all die in this movie? If TIE strikers are a thing then why didn't they help defend the Death Star from the rebels, or again will there only be a limited amount which all get destroyed? The biggest one to me though is that I've seen that the main Imperial guy in this movie has his own special shuttle which looks different than the standard Imperial shuttle (it looks kinda like Kylo Ren's shuttle actually). So the Emperor himself, the leader of their government, gets shuttled around in a standard Imperial shuttle (the likes of which the Rebels managed to steal one of) but the guy in this movie gets his own special black and evil looking version?!