Tech requiring aiming (among other things) makes no sense
Why is it that in these futuristic sci-fi movies, the technology is ALWAYS worse than our current technology?
"Dogfights with spaceships" makes no sense as an idea, because spaceship should be ABOVE F-19s and F-22s and all those things.
'Modern jet fighter fights' would be fought mostly with missiles and radar - the 'fighter' and the 'target' would NEVER, ever see each other visually, those missiles would be really fast and go really far, so we are talking about multiple kilometers, perhaps even tens of kilometers.
The 'enemy' would only be seen as blips in radar, not 10 cm from your ship while you are frantically trying to shoot them down with some 'laser version' of an ancient gatling gun that couldn't hit an aircraft carrier from two meters away.
Furthermore, not only is the technology lower than the current Earth tech with SEEKING MISSILES (heat-seeking, for example), that you DO NOT HAVE TO AIM but which just seek the target once they're locked, but they're almost never ADVANCED from that point forward.
Future tech should be BETTER, not on par or worse.
Future weapons should NEVER require the user to HAVE TO AIM ACCURATELY to hit anything. First of all, spaceships should be able to move a heckuva lot FASTER than anything flying we have available on this planet.
Their propulsion and magnetic field and energy systems should be such that they eliminate G-forces (or the pilots would just die all the time from just turning and such), so this means they could do the typical UFOlike instant turns and such, making it IMPOSSIBLE to hit with a 'laser gun' with slowly moving 'light bullets' or whatever. (This is already ridiculous in itself - any LIGHT-based gun should have INSTANT shots, not 'slower than our bullets' shots, why doesn't anyone question this?!)
But it gets even worse than that; any common sense future tech should obviously have the ability to just scan an area, automatically highlight all enemy targets and select them, so then you could deselect some if you want, or just 'erase every target from existence' if you press enter, or something.
Think about RTS games, where you can just select a group and issue a command, it would probably be like that or better. Just select who you want erased, then tell the computer to erase them. Then they would be either erased, or at least something very futuristic and powerful would happen INSTANTLY to attempt to erase them.
Missiles are such old tech, but even they would be better than what we are shown, some WW1 or maybe WW2 'gunner' crap at best, with SLOWER BULLETS.
Why would a 'light bullet' require such a massive recoil as to make the turret bounce back every time it shoots anyway? (Yet, people can shoot these bullets from pistols that do not seem to create recoil, so what gives?)
In any case, some kind of 'futuristic weapon tech energy grid sweep' should happen to the selected targets, and unless they're superfast or have ridiculous shields, they should be destroyed by a mighty EMPIRE's weapons easily and quickly. No clumsy 'walking giant robots that come from 200 km away' but just orbital grid, even bombing would not be necessary, this energy grid would be faster than light and more effective than 20 million nukes to its targets with no ill effects otherwise.
But sure, reduce the 'fire and forget' tech to 'you have to be able to HIT with these slow-moving bullets (even WW1 bullets were faster)'-level. What.. this makes no sense!
Also, why doesn't ANYONE ever use the force to solve problems? Darth should have just slammed the spaceships against the walls or exploded them or whatnot, instead of clumsily trying to target and HIT them (how hard is it to hit something if you are following them in a tiny, square-shaped tunnel? OK, it's not a 'tunnel' per se, but I forgot the word). But instead, he just says 'The force is strong with THIS ONE (emphasis mine).'
THIS ONE?? For a powerful, future-seeing force user Jedi Master, Darth is really bad at recognizing his own family members, fruits of his loins, etc. He tortures his daughter and leaves no marks or trauma for some reason, without recognizing her. He tries to kill his own son, recognizes his 'force strength' (which is never explained), but doesn't recognize him as his own son. WHAT?!
Luke could also, being 'strong', after all Yoda taught, slam Darth's ship or at least jam the ship's weapons or force choke him or Darth could force choke Luke, I mean, if Yoda can lift a ship from the swamp, why can't Darth move Luke's ship with the force just as well in the tunnel chase?
Please don't tell me it's because this happens in a different movie... I know I am always saying that we're supposed to talk about only one movie in that movie's board, but these movies are so meshed together storywise, the legend, saga and the world is exactly the same in all movies, the characters are exactly the same, the force is exactly the same, it's all just one story.
Makes no sense anyway..