A long time ago I remember people talking about one of the things that made star wars great was the thought that went into little things like, the X-Wings were dirty. As in this was a rag tag bunch of people who were scraping together a rebellion and they didn’t have fancy new shiny clean fighters.
That’s all true and it works well, but this weekend I realized something was missing.
I have a car that’s 20 years old and it’s got its problems. Some of them manifest as warning lights on the dashboard indicating this system is failing and that subsystem is broken.
It occurs to me that very likely the X-Wings fighters aren’t in perfect shape, and given how complicated a space ship is compared to my 20 year old car, they should have blinking lights and yellow warning buzzers going off all over the place.
And they should have pieces of black electrical tape covering up some of the more annoying ones.
But I don’t recall seeing that in any of the X-Wings in star wars.
