10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks

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.