10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks
1. Vader Only Disables The Falcon's Hyperdrive
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke, Leia, and company manage to escape Darth Vader's grasp after R2-D2 reactivates the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive.
But why wouldn't Vader order the hyperdrive to be more catastrophically comprised or even outright destroyed, rather than disabling it in trivial enough fashion that R2 could repair it with relative ease?
One popular theory among fans is that Vader didn't want the heroes noticing that the Falcon had been tampered with, as this might've prompted them to fly another ship out of Cloud City instead, in turn making it much more difficult for the Empire to track them.
Really the most sensible answer is that Vader didn't count on an astromech droid interfacing with the Cloud City Central Computer and figuring out what was wrong with the Falcon.
Even so, that's short-sighted enough to feel like a narrative inconsistency rather than a mere turn of plot.