10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks
Never forget the Star Wars plot holes so big you could fly the Falcon through them.
When any franchise gets as impossibly gigantic as Star Wars, it's only inevitable that some plot holes are going to slip through the cracks.
But Star Wars is definitely a unique case in this regard, given the sheer depth of its lore and the expansiveness of its universe, especially including the various novelisations and comics which have entered and exited the canon over the years.
Ultimately Star Wars is enough of an awe-inspiring spectacle - most of the time, anyway - that fans are largely willing to forgive or even entirely overlook narrative inconsistencies.
But that doesn't mean they aren't worth discussing.
And so, poring back over almost an entire half-century of Star Wars media, these are the 10 biggest plot holes which open the series up to the most scrutiny and leave fans questioning much of what they thought they knew.
You probably haven't thought about these plot holes in a long time, if ever, and while most of them can simply be explained as George Lucas taking his eye off the ball for a minute, the lack of persuasive answers remains absolutely infuriating...
10. Vader Doesn't Realise Leia Is His Daughter
Let's kick things off with a plot hole evidently created by the fact that George Lucas hadn't yet mapped out the original Star Wars trilogy - and it's far from the only one generated by that lack of planning.
When Darth Vader (David Prowse) boards The Tantive IV at the beginning of A New Hope and first crosses paths with Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), why doesn't he sense a familial connection to her, even though she's standing directly in front of him?
Again, the real explanation is that Lucas was simply making things up as he went along and hadn't yet conceived of Leia as related to Vader.
And yet, some fans have attempted to hand-wave this by suggesting that Vader couldn't sense his daughter because she wasn't using the Force or Force-sensitive at the time. Hmmm.
In the 45 years since A New Hope's release, various comics and novels have also taken more "authoritative" stabs at explaining this away, such as claiming that Leia managed to resist Vader's mind probe through sheer mental mettle.
Ultimately reasoning like this just seems like a pretty transparent - and not terribly convincing - attempt to plug up a plot hole that's existed since the series' inception.