And the voice actor was, and the voice is what really makes Vader as a character. Have you heard his original voice? It's comical. Imagine hearing this over the "You have failed me for the last time" line.
There's several black people in bespin, a few black rebel pilots in VI, captain typho from I, a few black Naboo pilots in I, captain Panaka from II and III
while I do agree that the resurgent class is the nicest looking 3km of durasteel out there, the dual-bridge design has been around since the old Venator.
I love pieces like this, the ones that humanize the apparently irrelevant characters who are constantly killed onscreen. Unfortunately, Star Wars encourages the dehumanization of half of the characters by covering their faces completely, because you're not meant to empathize with the stormtroopers. I think stories are more interesting when the writer acknowledge's that every character is a person with their own motivations and important people in their lives. Obviously, you cannot go in-depth with all of them, but I like when they do it with a few to make the viewer remember that they are people, like when the stormtrooper in front of Finn gets shot in the side and smears blood on his helmet as he falls. Pic related.
Never understood why crashing into the bridge of ship causes it to fail completely, youd think something that big would have other command centers in case the main one is destroyed.
imperial star destroyers did have backup command centres - executor classes doubly so. I can only assume that too few crew survived the destruction of the main bridge or were unable to make it to the backup command centres in time to correct the ship's course.
Ethnicity isn't even really a thing among humans in Star Wars. People might care about what planet you're from, but whether you're a black Corellian or a white Corellian isn't even a thing in the Star Wars universe.
.... A star destroyer isn't a car, nor is it a sail boat. If what amounted to a toy airplane stuffed with a hand grenade crashed into a current day Destroyer's command bridge and killed everyone would the ship suddenly be rendered completely inoperable and useless? No. Granted, it would become less effective with the command structure gone but there would still be an entire ships worth of personnel to keep the ship running and keep it from say, crashing into the new and very expensive ship and killing thousands.
In the prequel series we see shield tech nology deployed abundantly even on ground forces (droids and mobile shield generators of the Gungan Army).
Even if we dismiss those, I think even the Millenium Falcon has shields that provide protection from both energy weapons and ballistic projectiles.
Not installing any shields on a capital ship would be a huge design flaw.
And so would be making the bridge stand out like that.
There's not much need to have windows on a space battlship. All you need to know can be achieved by cameras and sensors and considering the range of weapons visual sight will not help the commander/captain much.