10 Weirdest Decisions In Star Wars History

The Star Wars franchise is such an epic, towering IP that it can't possibly please everybody all of the time - there are so many cooks in the kitchen working with so many characters that fans are inevitably going to get rubbed up the wrong way sooner or later.

And that's certainly true in the case of these 10 bizarro Star Wars decisions, whether baffling from a pure creative standpoint or because they don't make all that much sense from a pure character perspective.

Maybe a character deviated from their usual behaviour patterns and did something nobody expected, or perhaps they broke a firmly established aspect of their personal code for the convenient sake of the story, or even neglected to do the thing everyone wanted to see.

And then again, maybe George Lucas just got a little overzealous and over-explained something fans didn't really need explaining in the first place.

Some of these moments actively enraged the fanbase while others simply left them scratching their heads, but all in all they've about as peculiar and wildly debated as Star Wars has ever dared to get...

Though The Force Awakens was largely embraced by fans as a major return to form for the Star Wars franchise, there's one undeniable head-scratcher of a moment late in the film that still irks a lot of people.

After Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is killed by his son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the Resistance fighters return from their attack on Starkiller Base to mourn Han, and General Leia (Carrie Fisher) is quickly seen embracing Rey (Daisy Ridley).

It made no sense to many fans that Leia would immediately hug Rey, someone she's never met before, over Han's co-pilot of decades and best pal, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew).

More than a cruel slight to Chewie, it just seemed like a strange creative oversight, because why wouldn't Leia go directly to Chewbacca over a random person she doesn't know?

In an interview with Slashfilm a few months after the film's release, director J.J. Abrams even admitted that the decision was a "mistake," albeit while attempting to explain his thought process for the moment:

"That was probably one of the mistakes I made in that. My thinking at the time was that Chewbacca, despite the pain he was feeling, was focused on trying to save Finn and getting him taken care of. So I tried to have Chewbacca go off with him and focus on Rey, and then have Rey find Leia and Leia find Rey. The idea being that both of them being strong with the Force and never having met, would know about each other - that Leia would have been told about her beyond what we saw onscreen and Rey of course would have learned about Leia.

And that reunion would be a meeting and a reunion all in one, and a sort of commiseration of their mutual loss... Had Chewbacca not been where he was, you probably wouldn't have thought of it. But because he was right there, passed by Leia, it felt almost like a slight, which was definitely not the intention."