10 Movies That Fixed Infamous Plot Holes
1. Rogue One - How Easily The Death Star Could Be Destroyed
The last entry on our list is about a whole damn movie with a budget of $265 million that was made just to solve a plot hole. At the end of the original 1977 Star Wars, Luke Skywalker is able to blow up the Death Star with just two proton torpedoes into a thermal exhaust port at the end of a trench on the surface of the space station. Which was cool and all at the time, but seriously?
For ages, fans have criticized how a space station on that massive of scale could have had such an easy flaw for the rebels to take it down. It might as well have had a giant red button with a sign saying Self-Destruct Button—Do Not Push!
Finally, the outcries were responded to. 2016’s Rogue One follows the story of the ragtag team of rebels who steal the plans to the Death Star and hand them off to Princess Leia mere moments before the opening of the original film.
In Rogue One, we discover that the man who oversaw the design of the Death Star, Galen Erso, was a former Imperial scientist who defected, but was then tracked down, captured, and forced to work on the Death Star against his will. Erso designed the flaw in the Death Star that was so small the Empire would never find it. Then he sent a hologram message to his daughter, Jyn, informing her of his plan, and where to find the blueprints to the Death Star that will help the rebels locate the station’s weakness and destroy it.
In answering that 40-year plot hole, Disney made a billion dollars, so you could say it was one case of fan service paying off. Just a little.