History Narm / STARWARS

* In the sixth and final episode, Leia, a sheltered ten-year-old girl, is somehow acting shockingly calm and even comforting others when most of the adults, including Obi-Wan( a hardened war veteran and stoic Jedi), are panicking and admit to feeling unnerved at the Empire's pursuit of their ship. It's a touching that Leia is comforting others, buts it's very jarring that a sheltered child like her shows no signs of visible panic despite freaking out in previous tense situations when everyone else onboard, including mature adults, is. It borders on *Dissonant Serenity.

* Thrawn's stormtroopers, now dubbed Night Troopers. are given a new menacing look, with cracked rugged armor, unsettling face-like helmets, and [[OminousLatinChanting an ominous chanting score]] that makes them seem like a sinister fanatical cult. But this genuinely fearsome design falls flat when they turn out to be just as comically ineffective and easily thrown around as regular stormtroopers.

* Sabine Wren's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where she blows off a pair of space cops while doing reckless speeder tricks and blasting loud music, in a scene almost directly lifted from young Jim in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', can come off as trying too hard to introduce her as an "extreme cool" rebel. But what really makes the scene ridiculous is that, while being an defiant hothead is nothing new for Sabine, it's been over a decade since ''Rebels'' and yet Wren's writing as a 30 year-old adult is no different from her as a teenager.

* When Mace Windu disarms Palpatine and tells him that he's lost, Palpatine's NoYou response makes him sound like a petulant toddler.

** In the same scene, Yoda uses a force push to send Palpatine flying backwards, but the editing combined with Palpatine's wild arm flailing resembles slapstick more than a duel.

* The dark troopers from [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14]] were built up big as terrifying DoomTroops in as similar vein as the [[Film/RogueOne death troopers]], but their actual introduction doesn't quite deliver. Whether they look like goofy {{Toys/BIONICLE}} rejects with a generic RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver design, or still manage to be intimidating regardless depends on who you ask. But what dampens their "cool" factor is their big contribution to the battle at the end of the episode; swoop in, menacingly march towards a defenseless baby, pick it up off a rock, and fly away without even firing a single weapon, in what is essentially a glorified ''grocery run''. Fortunately [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E8Chapter16TheRescue "The Rescue"]] substantially ups their menace factor in response.

* A rule on the show was that Anakin and Grievous could never see each other, since otherwise their banter in ''Revenge of the Sith'' about meeting for the first time wouldn’t make any sense. The stories where they’re both in the same battle thus go to lengths to have them never directly encounter one another, and these efforts start to look increasingly silly. One time Anakin coincidentally rounds a corner every time Grievous follows him down a hallway, and in a deleted arc Anakin was always hidden from Grievous’s view by an enormous crystal between them. Somehow they managed to sustain this game of peekaboo for three years.

* The "Rey Skywalker" exchange took very little time to become a snowclone, given how unnatural it sounds dialogue-wise, the rather cheap-looking force ghost effects, and the general weirdness and FridgeLogic of the scene in general turning the MeaningfulRename into a bit of a gigglefest. Not to mention, the preceding question that sets up the MeaningfulRename, "Rey who?" sounds more like a part of a knock-knock joke than any conversation to be taken seriously.

** Just the fact that Palpatine inadvertently ends up electrocuting with his own force lightning for a '''third''' time really ruins any drama that could be pulled out of the scene. It both makes him look like an incompetent dumbass who can't learn from his past mistakes while simultaneously robbing Rey of any actual agency in defeating him, souls of all the past Jedi be damned.

* The death of Leia is unintentionally hilarious because she basically dies using the force to give a phone call.

-->"if you ever have waning confidence in your screenwriting or storytellings(sic) abilities, just remember that a professionally paid, multimillionaire screenwriter wrote down the words "somehow palpatine returned" for the final installment of a major hollywood franchise, that has ran for over 40 years, overseen by the largest company in entertainment, and they went with it."

* Finn and Rose getting arrested for a parking violation of all things at Canto Bight. While this does ruin their plans of getting in contact with the actual codebreaker, it's hard not to get reminded of ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' when guards attempt to arrest the main characters for illegal parking (which is meant to be intentionally funny).

* Snoke telling Ren that the droid is onboard the ''Falcon'' "with your father...({{Beat}}) Han Solo." Not only does Ren obviously know who his father is, but it's incredibly obvious to the audience as well, as the only other people onboard the ''Falcon'' are Chewie, Rey, and Finn, none of whom could possibly be his dad. It's meant to be a WhamLine, but the last two words come off as a very awkward AsYouKnow.

* Until the Blu-ray release, Darth Vader silently watched as the Emperor electrocuted Luke. Despite his masked facial expressions, Vader was visibly conflicted before deciding to save Luke with a HeroicSacrifice. The Blu-ray release adds Vader saying a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, distracting from the heavy emotion the scene originally carried through the acting and score and ruining the surprise of his FaceHeelTurn to boot.

* Until the Blu-ray release, Darth Vader silently watched as the Emperor electrocuted Luke. Despite his masked facial expressions, Vader was visibly conflicted before deciding to save Luke with a HeroicSacrifice. The Blu-ray release adds Vader saying a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, distracting from the heavy emotion the scene originally carried through the acting and score.

* The initially deleted scene with Jabba was unfortunately forced by outside factors into being pretty laughable. First, the Greedo scene was altered so that the exposition about why Han is on the run could still get across. Some of the dialogue simply transplanted over wholesale, which means we're now quite noticeably getting the same lines twice almost back-to-back ("Even I get boarded sometimes. You think I had a choice?"). Additionally, Jabba was modeled on-set by a regular actor who would've had stop-motion footage superimposed on him; Han repeatedly walks around him during their conversation, which would be physically impossible under the intended circumstances. Thus, when the scene was completed for the Special Edition with CGI, the filmmakers were forced to have Han step on Jabba's tail to his discomfort, which helps destroy the scene's efforts to portray Jabba as a terrifying crime boss that no one wants to be on the bad side of.[[note]](The other thing that hurts the scene in this regard is that Han visibly isn't treating Jabba as a serious threat, mostly because in the script Jabba ''wasn't'' supposed to be a terrifying crime lord with a criminal empire that spanned multiple systems, but rather a SmallNameBigEgo gangster who was still rich enough to make sure Han would be up to his neck in bounty hunters until he was paid off; Jabba's more familiar characterisation wasn't solidified until ''Return of the Jedi'')[[/note]] However, this can fall under NarmCharm because this shows how Han can be such a badass to the point of stepping on the tail of a crime boss like Jabba.

* It's hard to top a line as bad as "Somehow Palpatine returned" but they managed it when they had Kylo, po-faced, say the words "They sold you to protect you" without a hint of irony. Because who says being protective of your daughter doesn't mean you can't make a little money on the side?

* Sabine Wren's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where she blows off a pair of space cops while doing reckless speeder tricks and blasting loud music, in a scene almost directly lifted from young Jim in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', can come off as trying too hard to introduce as an "extreme cool" rebel. But what really makes the scene ridiculous is that, while being an defiant hothead is nothing new for Sabine, it's been over a decade since ''Rebels'' and yet Wren's writing as a 30 year-old adult is no different from her as a teenager.

* Sabine Wren's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where she blows off a pair of space cops while doing reckless speeder tricks and blasting loud music, in a scene almost directly lifted from young Jim in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', can come off as trying too hard to introduce as an "extreme cool" rebel. But what really makes the scene ridiculous is that, while being an defiant hothead is nothing new for Sabine, it's been over a decade since ''Rebels'' and yet Wren's writing as a 30 year-old adult is no different from before as a teenager.

* Sabine's introduction, where she blows off a pair of space cops while doing reckless speeder tricks and blasting loud music, in a scene almost directly lifted from young Jim in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', can come off as trying too hard to set her up as an "extreme cool" rebel. But what really makes the scene ridiculous is that, while being an defiant hothead is nothing new for Sabine, it's been over a decade since ''Rebels'' and yet Wren's writing as a 30 year-old adult is no different from before as a teenager.

* Thrawn's stormtroopers, now dubbed Night Troopers. are given a new menacing design, with cracked rugged armor, unsettling face-like helmets, and [[OminousLatinChanting an ominous chanting score]] that makes them seem like a sinister fanatical cult. But this genuinely fearsome design falls flat when they turn out to be just as comically ineffective and easily thrown around as regular stormtroopers.

* Thrawn's stormtroopers, now dubbed Night Troopers. are given a new menacing design, with cracked rugged armor, unsettling face-like helmets, and [[OminousLatinChanting an ominous chanting score]] that makes them seem like a sinister fanatical cult. But this genuinely fearsome design falls flat when they turn out just as comically ineffective and easily thrown around as regular stormtroopers.

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