10 Most Out Of Place Scenes In Sci-Fi Movie History

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, or Episode VIII, depending on what neck of the woods you hail from, enraged some long-time fans upon release, with director Rian Johnson and actor Kelly Marie Tran unfairly catching most of the flack.

But, despite the frequently conflicted harping of the so-called purists, the film was a commercial and critical success, offering up a unique chapter of Star Wars lore that wasn't afraid to digress from past traditions and try something different. But that kind of currency only takes you so far.

After Sith apprentice Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) launches an attack on his mother, Leia Organa's (Carrie Fisher), ship, Leia is blown out into space in a fireball of debris. So she's a goner, right? Wrong. After surviving for a good minute or so in the vacuum of space, her hand twitches, her eyes flick open and she, umm, force-flies herself to safety.

The power, the action and the scene don't jive with anything in the Star Wars universe: neither the lore, the canon nor even the fundamental laws of chemistry, biology or physics.

We discover in The Rise Of Skywalker (2019) that Leia trained as a Jedi under Luke, and even has her own lightsaber, but this doesn't help land the whole space-flying thing any better. If they could just zoom around the freezing cold (about -270 degrees Celsius, to be precise) void like Superman, why didn't Luke or Obi-Wan just zoom up the Death Star's exhaust port with a thermal detonator suppository?