the_dengle said:
Actually Kanan was trained by Jedi for 14 years, fought in the Clone Wars, and has been on the run hiding from and fighting back against the Empire for about 10 years. Hiding is half the battle for a Rebel. He has a lifetime of experience preparing him for this. Zeb was a member of the Lasat Honor Guard. He is an elite warrior who fought in an uprising against the Empire on his homeworld of Lasan. The Empire wiped out his people -- but not the local troops stationed on Lothal. So he has experience fighting the Empire, but the specific forces he's fighting against have never dealt with resistance to their rule. They are complacent. Sabine is a Mandalorian... does that really require explanation? Her background is largely a mystery, although it is known that she was trained at an Imperial academy for a while, so she has some knowledge of Imperial procedures as well as the skills she picked up there. I don't know much about Hera either, but she's mostly just the pilot. The show is far from perfect, sure season 1 had a few episodes where the enemy was completely incompetent (this has been a big problem for Stormtroopers in general ever since Return of the Jedi) and the story lacked tension because of it. But the Inquisitor was menacing enough, and I certainly wouldn't say he and Tarkin were useless. The Rebels suffered some setbacks along the way, and now they have been driven from Lothal completely. If anyone was keeping score since the start of the series, I'd say the Empire is currently in the lead, given the Rebels have accomplished nothing of note and have been sent running from their base of operations. |
I get your point.
