... Okay, I've got fanfic ideas I tend to work on along the side, and when it comes to Star Wars, I gotta double check a few things every now and then to make sure I'm alligning to what canon bits I like...
And I came across something disturbing.
TBB takes place within 19-18 BBY.
What the fuck do you mean that show takes place in just a gods damn year.
Well congratulations TBB! You just proved to me that your logistics is irrevocably fucked and that the timeline fuckery does not and cannot be debated or lenient BECAUSE YOU SOMEHOW HAVE ELITE STORMTROOPERS JUST DAYS AFTER ORDER 66.
YOU MAGICKED STORMTROOPERS INTO EXISTENCE AND CLONE TROOPERS INTO NON EXISTENCE.
See, everybody is about technicalities when it comes to world-builds and lore, and seeming keep ignoring that Logistics is Important. How and Why the object is there is and where it came from, is often more important than what is there.
Logistics when translated into imaginative-fiction, is basically the Journey, the Story, or the Many mini stories that occur. Just because its not the focus, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
What TBB effectively did was just decide something existed now, and didn't answer any questions as to why, how, where.
And to take inspiration from real world, I will tell you right now, Soldiers, especially your super special elite forces kind, don't magically just exist. In an organized Military, the minimum is Three Months, for regular military training, with an additional 3-4 months for any specific job (known as MOS for US Army and Rate for US Navy ), and if you're special forces, expect anywhere from an additional 6 months to 3 years.
Which means that unless the show spent time explicitly introducing characters--Crosshair can't, in fact, have an elite team of 4 by the third episode that are just random elite soldiers WHICH DIDN'T EXPLICITLY EXIST PRIOR.
That jackass who got headshot was talking up the Empire like he was a normal ass army recruit. Motherfucker, you've been here a least 3 days. Frankly, the Empire should still be feeling the fallout of the Republic and the Jedi Massacre. Pretending a massive government upheavel was a 9-to-5 lunchbreak doesn't just break suspension of disbelief, it's destroyed the whole damn quarterdeck of disbelief.
Someone is going to make a creative argument as to why. I imagine you can, you could probably make a whole slew of them. I can too, I can make up a story about how this would work.
And that's the problem.
The Show Didn't. And that's the storyteller we're paying to listen to.
And in term of the narrative, if the storyteller keeps skipping steps with expectations for you to figure it out by yourself, you inevitably create a more interesting story than what the storyteller is telling.
And if that's gonna be the case, why would I pay Disney to tell a shitty story when I can just pay attention you instead? Might as well Retire Star Wars.
EVEN THE OG PAID ATTENTION TO LOGISTICS. Like, the Deathstar II was unfinished after 5 years--that's the whole reason the Rebellion even won! AND TBB WANTS TO TELL ME THEY MAGICKED SPECIAL FORCES IN JUST 2 DAYS!?
STAR WARS IS HALF LOGISTICS.
