10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks

2. Leia Has Memories Of Padmé

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And now another plot hole that was deemed "a legit question" by Pablo Hidalgo.

In Return of the Jedi, Leia tells Luke that she can remember images and feelings of her birth mother, which is of course contradicted by Revenge of the Sith, which shows Padmé dying soon after giving birth to Luke and Leia.

So, what exactly is Leia on about here?

Obviously the real answer is that it's an inconsistency between the sequels and prequels that George Lucas lost sight of.

However, some fans in their desperation for answers have pawned it off as either Leia using the Force to conjure memories or visions of Padmé, or that she's in fact remembering her adoptive mother, Queen Breha Organa.

But any way you slice it this is a blatant, textbook prequelitis problem.

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