Frankly, alot of the “hype” can be boiled down to the fact the Rebel’s aesthetics just aren’t as interesting or dynamic as the Empire or the Grand Army during the Clone Wars
Shiny space armor simply looks cooler than fatigues and orange jumpsuits, the X-wing starfighters are pretty much all the Rebels have going for them in terms of “neat sci fi tech” it’s shallow, but casuals respond to the ‘rule of cool’
The portrayals are accurate IMO. Fascists have always valued aesthetics over function (and communists the inverse). That’s why Hitler’s wonderwaffles lost to the T-34 (not directly but you know what I mean).
Frankly, alot of the “hype” can be boiled down to the fact the Rebel’s aesthetics just aren’t as interesting or dynamic as the Empire or the Grand Army during the Clone Wars
Shiny space armor simply looks cooler than fatigues and orange jumpsuits, the X-wing starfighters are pretty much all the Rebels have going for them in terms of “neat sci fi tech” it’s shallow, but casuals respond to the ‘rule of cool’
The portrayals are accurate IMO. Fascists have always valued aesthetics over function (and communists the inverse). That’s why Hitler’s wonderwaffles lost to the T-34 (not directly but you know what I mean).