A question about the technology...

Rating: 8/10 (2 April 2002)

So, fifty years BEFORE this movie, the bad guys had vast armies of robots that rolled in and decimated everything in their path (except for those that were killed by Jar-Jar falling down), but now the Empire uses guys in cheap white plastic armor? Incidentally, if one blaster shot kills a stormtrooper, then why do they bother wearing the armor at all?