Lucas a racist!

Sometimes. But they're good at finding things, like metal droid rings.

I wasn't under the impression that that was rocket science.

Imps are Black hats... baaaaad to a man... and also baaad in the competence department, to look at them. Except for Vader and co it looks like Veers was the only efficient one out of the lot of them.

Veers was great. But so was that seventh Stormtrooper on the left.

Him? He was baaadd...

Now you are confusing him with number 19. He is right behind him so he gets confused with no. 7 a lot.

Tricky to do that, 19 was cut

Not on the widescreen. You can just see part of his helmet.

But if you believe the EU stories, Veers was killed whan a Rebel pilot crashed into his AT-AT's cockpit. Not so efficient when he's smeared across several thousand red hot chunks of metal, eh?
As for the stormtroopers, they're not so hot either. It makes you wonder how many shots it took to kill Owen and Beru, I bet they could have run all the way to Mos Eisely to get away if they'd tried.

Veers is fine; he was going to be in ROTJ at first.

All EU sources.

Yeah, just kidding. He's the man, I remember thinking how cool he was for piloting an AT-AT, far more dangerous and action packed than being a Star Destroyer captain. Plus, he got the job done, a rarity for the Imps.

The Imps could certainly count their talented officers on one hand...

I didn't catch Piett on too many mistakes.

Yeah..but most of them don't seem too bright..I mean. How hard can it be to shoot a teddy bear?

Piett? Oh come on, just look at him... typical British Colonial Officer...

Even the British colonies lasted a while.

Yeah..until the colonisted decided not to fight by the rules.

Piett seemed like a nice guy though, a problem GL seems to have qwhen portraing some Imperials. Stormtroopers, on the whole, seemed like nice guys, and Piett always came off as a weary, worried admiral, running around to avoid death at the hands of Vader. I once wasn't very well-up on Star Wars, and I was convinced that the Millenium Falcon escaping at the end of ESB meant Piett's death, until I saw him in ROTJ when I looked closely.

In ROTJ at the request of fans, no less...

There is always this assumption that all Imperial characters are bad. GL wanted a very simple moral structure, which is why it is ok to kill all those countless thousnads on the Death Star.

Totally unrealistic, of course, but that is suspension of disbelief for you... after all, hard to sympatise with the Rebels if they are mass murderers of innocents. So GL made them ALL bad.

In the prequels, it is more difficult... but then who weeps for a battle droid?