10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks
7. The Millennium Falcon Is Fueled Up On Jakku
Let's face it - we were all so damn happy that Star Wars: The Force Awakens brought the series back to terra firma that we weren't necessarily open to scrutinising every aspect of its plot right away.
With some decent critical distance from the sequel trilogy as a whole, though, there are certainly some aspects of the story both large and minor that don't make much sense.
For example, when Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) hijack the Millennium Falcon on Jakku, why exactly is it fuelled and ready to go despite seemingly sitting around on this dusty-ass desert planet for years?
Penny-pinching scrapper Unkar Plutt (Simon Pegg) doesn't exactly seem like the kinda guy to just leave a dilapidated ship filled up with the liquid metal fuel it requires, especially as in addition to being expensive as hell, the fuel is canonically said to be highly explosive.
Even if there was some fuel left in the Falcon when it was stolen from Han (Harrison Ford) and Chewie (Peter Mayhew), it would've certainly evaporated over the years before Rey and Finn commandeered it.
The real answer, as is so often the case? "Because plot."