This is a guy who knows when shit’s not his fault. I bet if Vader hadn’t started barking orders he’d have tried to subtly mention the interoffice memo he wrote, six months earlier, suggesting the installation of anti-fighter lasers around sensitive areas that general so-and-so officially dismissed.
As an aside, the Disney Star Wars movies really could have used a scene like this to give the First Order some substance and motivation beyond being evil. They feel like a pale imitation of the original empire now.
I think it depends on the lighting and monitor. The Imperial officer’s uniforms look like they’re grayish or brownish-gray in some pictures and scenes, and look more like a desaturated olive-drab green in others. I always took it as “green” but I can see the confusion.
How about Commander Jerjerrod, who greeted Vader when he arrived on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi? “We shall double our efforts!” “I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.”
What, no love for Vader’s anonymous wingman who, when fired upon by the Falcon, chooses not to throttle back or exit the trench or even a heroic sacrifice ; but rather break straight into Vader’s ship ? YOU HAD ONE JOB !
I’d have to choose Ozzel, as the actor Michael Sheard also played the terrifying headmaster of ‘Grange Hill’ (popular UK children’s school drama series in the Eighties), Mr Bronson.
IOW, you’re both correct, from a certain point of view.
I consider that Vader’s fault for grabbing the only two pilots they had sitting around while everyone else was out there. Did it ever occur to him they weren’t being scrambled for a reason?
“Mauler had a son named Rejlii Mithel, who became a tractor beam operator on the Chimaera. He kept a holo of Rejlii on the control yoke of his TIE fighter.”
This arrangement does not sound conducive to focused, distraction-free piloting.
