I'm cool with some retcon stuff from Andor. It is one of the only Star Wars things that feels like there was more than 5 seconds of thought put into all of its decisions.

real flight suits are olive drab because SERE and stuff I guess

but if you get blown out into space and survive, stealth is the opposite of what you want. you want to stand out as much as possible so that somebody, anybody can get to you before your oxygen runs out.

but then again while typing this i remembered that the x wing helmets weren't sealed like the TIE helmets were, and their suits were all black, so I guess the real reason is because George was doing color theory and wanted to make the two teams stand out visually from one another.

i used to think that scifi fans were a little bit smarter than the average person because they i thought that they were able to appreciated how scifi frequently questioned society through a scifi lense; but watching people hate on the empire on this show, but still uncritically support the us empire has changed my mind.

Maybe George was going through a Dutch nationalist phase

wildfire firefighters had to switch from orange to yellow because orange kept getting mistaken for flames by the tanker aircraft

maybe they just really really like orban?