Which is telling, considering if you read to the end of the sentence that was the presumption that I was assigning to you.I did my years. And no Marine or former is of the assumption that the Corps glides by on anything but great PR and miserable SNCOs.

I’ll start firstly by telling you to fuck off insulting the armed forces of a number of countries that have significantly larger proportions of their countries under arms than the US. Also, Israel, Australia, Canada? Are you daft?

Never served in the Corps or know anything about it’s actual internal history I’m willing to guess. The Corps fought tooth and nail against racial integration for 20+ years after Truman ordered it for much the same reasons they espouse now. Its the dying lashes of a conservative club who don’t want to be beholden to…

To be fair, there really was no weakness without the sabotage, there was simply an armored objective. Like FTL. Attacking the opposing ships shields, engines or weapons.

The Resistance are hardcore. The Republic may have made it’s peace with the Imperial remnants to avoid prolonging a war the galaxy is probably really tired of watching and dying in. But the Resistance is calling bullshit on that. Those fuckers blow up planets when given the opportunity. Probably a lot of Alderaanian…

Forgetting of course that Ren just took a gut shot with a weapon telegraphed through the whole movie as being hilariously overpowered. So thats one. Also on the same day Luke learns the Force exists he manually aims and fires a pair of weapons he has never fired from a vehicle hes never flown into a small thermal…

By adapting books, plays and folk tales into film? Thereby trading on what was familiar? Or no.