We all have fabulously piffling hills to die on when it come to the series we make out . Paul McGann is the respectable Doctor . Deep Space Nine is unspoilt than The Next Generation . Superior Spider - Man was good . Here is my pettiest mound , though it ’s one I ’m still prepared to give way on : Star Wars ’ A - Wings are for losers , and I am disproportionately mad they ’re in The Last Jedi .
I ’m not going to give you a rational argument here . We ’re getting demented about spaceship in a sci - fantasy moving-picture show about laser sword and magic business leader and little ball - robots , and everything you ’re about to record is lilliputian as hell . But goddammit , the A - Wing is the most boring Star Wars starship . It ’s the ultra fast , ultra sleek sports car you tool around in because you ’re overcompensating for something , but in space jet form .
Although , canonically speaking , the A - Wings in the moving-picture show have had their shields stripped to increase their speed , most Star Wars medium outside of the films has gone on to depict them as receive the shields of a attack aircraft like the X - Wing , the speed of a TIE Interceptor ( which , remember that the whole point of TIE fighters was that they did n’t have carapace but made up for it with speed ? Way to negate that , A - fender ! ) , with the firepower to go toe - to - toe with all the other starfighters . They ’re too cool for school , the hot rods , all sizzle and no steak . They ’re trying to be the better and more badass result to the X - Wing , like the TIE Interceptor was to the TIE Fighter . The A - Wing is the writer insert of starships .
But here ’s the thing : you could not beat paragon . you may not beat the most iconic starfighter in scifi history . The X - Wing is a original ’s starfighter , the perfect equaliser of speed , firepower , defenses , and a rad - as - hell design . The A - Wing is a pretender to a pot it does n’t deserve to be in the same room with .
It ’s also a ship piloted by the worst citizenry . Adam - Wing pilot are Hero . A - extension pilot are either massive mother fucker — the Star Wars equivalent weight of meathead supporter likePash Cracken — or they ’re imbecile likeArvel Crynyd . X - Wing pilot ? call back for blowing up two Death Stars . A - Wing pilot ? remember for dying and then accidentally disable a Super Star Destroyer because they crashed into it like a chump .
Look at that nonstarter . They devote him a posthumous decoration for this bullshit in the Expanded Universe .
I do n’t care that Rebels canonically made the A - Wing the first starfighter the Rebellion had access to ; the disco biscuit - Wing will forever be the more iconic , superior ship . Did the A - Wing have its own instrument panel secret plan named after it?Didn’t think so — because an ex - Wing is n’t some hot perch pile of Irish bull piloted almost exclusively by son of a bitch . And why does the Resistance even need another dogfighter when it ’s already got the ecstasy - Wing , previously established as Clearly the good One ? One matter The Force Awakens was lack in was infinite battle — something The Last Jedi is seemingly discipline , evaluate by the laggard . It would ’ve been nice if we had a bit more variety in that infinite combat beyond the capital ships and the dogfighters by introduce more varied ships … and not just a slightly updated A - Wing .
We could have had Y - Wings back , Rian Johnson , who I ’m assuming for no real understanding at all was solely creditworthy for this terrible conclusion ! We could have had everything . But now we have more A - Wings , which are basically worse then nothing .
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