10 Most Confusing Scenes In Star Wars History

A New Hope got things underway with the Empire showcasing a rather useful piece of scanning apparatus.

With C-3PO and R2-D2 looking to make a sneaky escape from the action during the film's opening stages, the Imperial forces soon scan their escape pod and come to the conclusion that there are "no life forms" onboard.

But that does beg the question, why didn't the Empire use this exact same piece of kit during the moment the protagonists landed inside of the Death Star later in that very film?

Instead of putting this pretty effective piece of tech to work once again, the decision is made to simply send in a human scanning crew after reading the Millennium Falcon's log and deducing that the ship must've been abandoned.

Admittedly, the heroes hiding in Han Solo's secret compartments could've possibly helped them literally stay under the radar. But even Solo himself notes how he uses these for smuggling and not for hiding himself, so there's no guarantee life-forms wouldn't be picked up on scanners even in these secret spots.

All in all, someone clearly figured it'd be a somewhat anti-climactic end to the flick if the team were also quickly captured and dumped into a cell to rot with Leia.