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Probably true but what I said is also true... well allegedly, it was said by Cushing himself that Lucas apparently originally wanted him to reprise his role as Tarkin in the Empire Strikes Back but also due to scheduling issues he was not able to do this. He then claims he later came to regret that decision when he saw how Star Wars took off.Cushing wanted to be Obi-Wan but conflicts he had when Episode IV was scheduled to be filmed made that impossible. Lucas has said he wanted Cushing to play Tarkin from the start and offered him the role when they met in-person for the first time during the casting of the movie. But Cushing said Lucas originally offered him Obi-Wan. It's Cushing's word vs. Lucas' on that one
I think he was already doing another movie at the time because like the others he didn't think Star Wars would take off like it did.
This is actually one thing that annoys the fuck out of me about the new Disney canon. The Stormtroopers are a fucking joke now. In the old EU they were actually very deadly. In fact they're SUPPOSED to be the elite forces of the Empire but everyone just kind of forgot about that and they turned into the main force of the Empire.I know everyone says Stormtroopers can't hit anything, but they did a pretty good job at killing anyone who isn't The Heroes.
Remember that line Luke says about how he can't see anything in the helmet? And how it apparently wasn't even scripted and they left it in? In the new Disney canon it's more or less just a throwaway joke explaining why the stormtroopers never hit anyone important because their helmets are shit or something stupid like that. In the original EU though they turned it into this entire thing. Apparently the Stormtrooper helmets were so advanced they basically had built in targeting systems and shit and apparently the reason why Luke could barely see when putting on the helmet was because it had some kind of security check in place to not activate those systems when a non-imperial personnel put it on. Don't ask me how it worked because I don't remember but I thought that lore tidbit was interesting.
Though I admit the old EU wasn't consistent with Stormtroopers either and it was a 50/50 whether they'd be treated like a joke or actually feared. Sadly I think a lot of it came down to people somehow not realizing or just flat out forgetting that as you said, the only reason they escaped situations like The Death Star was because they were allowed to because it was part of the plan.