[Jester]

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Originally Posted by ScrapMetaru

So a movie you haven't seen is gonna be not just bad, but awful, because a ship looks a smidgen different? You big fucking baby.

No, he definitely has a point. Brightening up the interior of the Falcon and sticking some random junk between the mandibles really does seem to betoken a lack of faith in the ability to successfully draw the audience into the story without constant, flashy reminders that everything in the film is taking place before ANH, as if Alden Ehrenreich’s relative youth wasn’t enough to drive that point home. That sort of clumsiness is also on display more generally with the set direction. “Ooh, it’s ‘The Dark Times,’ so let’s filter out all the colours and shoot half the scenes in heavy smoke or fog!” It’s reminiscent of some remarkably stupid passages in James Kahn’s original RotJ novelisation where he starts waxing lyrical about how Imperial technology is damaging the environment of Endor’s forest moon (Imperial tech apparently being powered by raw EVIL), and yet the Rebel vessels, which are technologically-indistinguishable from the Imperials’ so far as anything in the movies can suggest, apparently flit benificently about on “gossamer wings.”