Last week in the Milky Way galaxy on planet Earth during the early 21st century...
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To be fair, Star Wars has a long history of using modified versions of real weapons as props. This does look particularly low effort, however.
u/Grumman is right, this is well below the acceptable tolerance level of any Sci-Fi.
I would even go so far as saying this is a worse decision than giving them:
I think my mind could fucking tolerate the levels of stupid in this decision if was an FS2000 because it really does look like a Sci-Fi weapon in it's original configuration. But if you're gonna use a dirty old AK, just say fuck it and give them a fucking M1 Garand. I want you to feel as stupid as they look.
Star Wars isn't science fiction. It's fantasy adventure.
Well, this lazy shit also isn't acceptable in fantasy adventure, so I fail to see the relevance...
Science fantasy
Eh. Futuristic-medieval fantasy adventure.
Adding the word "science" sort of implies there would be SOME sense of discovery and some realism to the setting.
Which are not things you could ever accuse Star Wars of having.
Adding spaceships and robots in space doesn't make something scientific. It's just reskinned skyships and golems on the ocean.
Isn’t a lot of SciFi just that though? I like Dune, but, being a scientist myself, I don’t really see the “science” in it.
When it came out in the late 70s, a lot of adults of the time described it as a "space western", and about the only things to compare it to at the time was stuff like Buck Rogers or Star Trek (which itself was called "Wagon Train To the Stars".)
Nuclear take right there.
Han's heavy blaster is the only prop that comes to mind that was anywhere close, retaining the Mauser's "broom handle" grip. The Sterling SMG doesn't have much surface detail to retain, so it's just the basic layout with the sideways magazine port that betrays their origin.