Okay, time for a controversial opinion (as if my
confliction over The Force Awakens wasn’t
bad enough): I think the Millennium
Falcon is kind of dumb-looking.
It’s all right, I guess. But for a ship of its supposed caliber and
speed, it’s kind of clunky-looking; shape-wise, it looks like a plate with some
shoehorns glued to it. No style, no
grace -- which is kind of the point, given its owners, but it’s still not what
I’d call ideal. Now, the X-Wing? Fine.
A-Wing? Cool. Y-Wing?
That’ll do. I know those aren’t
in the same class, but then I remember that the Star Destroyer exists and looks
cool (inasmuch as an imperial death machine deserves respect), so it’s just
like, “Yo, what happened, Han?” On the
other hand, the canon has also produced “beauties” like the B-Wing, so
their aerospace engineering is probably a little spotty.
I guess what I’m getting at here is that, like
I’ve said before, the past is not
sacrosanct. We don’t have to blindly
accept that everything from the good old days was perfect and exemplary,
because otherwise we end up in situations where “the things from the past are
always better than things from the present”.
By the same token, we
shouldn’t blindly reject everything because it’s from the past. Lessons can still be learned from it, and
elements (if not whole productions) are still appreciable. It’s all about balance, and giving credit
where credit’s due. Like and dislike
with reason and respect.
I just thought I’d throw that out there, in case
anyone reading this decided to hunt me down and pin my lifeless body to a
towering spire as a warning to their enemies.
So let’s move on…amidst all of the spoilers.
