the_dengle said:
I was referring to the Clone Wars animated movie, yes. For what it's worth, the tv series is much better than the film.
Well of course the Imperials on Lothal are incompetent. They have no experience fighting rebels because they encounter so little resistance from the population (and I quote: "No one has spoken against the Empire on Lothal since the Bridger Transmissions." The Bridgers were silenced at least seven years before the start of the series). See, justifying the behavior of characters doesn't make the plot more interesting. When you have a completely nonthreatening antagonist, there's no tension in your story. This is more of a problem for Episodes 1 & 2 (and especially for Clone Wars) than it is for Episode 3, when Palpatine finally steps up as the antagonist and actually gets shit done. Sort of like Star Wars Rebels after the first few episodes, when the Inquisitor, then Tarkin, then more recently Vader show up. The Lothal Imperials are woefully bad at managing their little rebel problem, so Tarkin has them executed. Basically every encounter with the Inquisitor ends with the heroes lucky to still be alive. They have a few moral victories, but have nothing substantial to show for their efforts. They can't, because the prologue to A New Hope outright states that the Rebellion's first major victory was the theft of the Death Star schematics. Season 1 had a somewhat hopeful ending with the crew of the Ghost joining a larger Rebel organization. But season 2 immediately opens with Darth Vader leading the Empire to injure and scatter the Rebels before they can accomplish anything. |
The Rebels have no experience fighting the Imperial Empire either. Sure they've resisted, but actual fighting? No. Besides, the Imperialists are trained professionals. That gives absolutely no excuse to be losing to Rebels that much. Heck, they were pretty much useless until Darth Vader did stuff.
