7. Tarkin Parks The Death Star, Does Nothing - A New Hope
Good old Grand Moff Tarkin. General of the Death Star, unflinching in the face of death and completely stupid when it comes to battle plans. After moving the Death Star to Yavin, where the Rebel's base is on a nearby moon, Tarkin and co then decide to completely wait for the moon to come into orbit before doing anything whatsoever. This stupid decision leads to Tarkin and co being blown up by the Rebel Forces who used Tarkin's tea break as a chance to amass a counterattack and exploit the stupidly-designed bits of the Death Star. To all the bits of Tarkin currently floating around in space - you're officially an idiot.
6. Princess Leia Leads The Empire Straight To The Rebel Base - A New Hope
Most of the plot of the first (well, technically the fourth) Star Wars film focuses on the Empire's desire to find and crush the Rebel Alliance's base into little bits using their uber-powerful Death Star. To do this, a lot of the Empire's focus in the film is on Leia Organa, that pesky rouge princess who holds the location of the Rebel Base somewhere in her hair buns. Naturally she blatantly refuses for the entirety of the film to divulge this information, only sending out a plea for help via R2-D2 which is picked up by Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi on the sandy shores of Tatooine. Unfortunately, after recruiting Han Solo and Chewie and staging a daring rescue of the princess, Luke and company ship the newly-rescued princess directly onto the Millennium Falcon. What happens next is truly idiotic - Leia, despite knowing that the ship has a tracker on it, then advises the group to travel immediately to Yavin, where the Rebel Alliance's base of operations is. Given that she'd just seen the awesome destructive force of the Death Star blow up her home planet a few hours previously, this was a gamble and a half. Thankfully due to a good bit of luck and cinema magic, the Rebel Alliance was able to stop the evil Empire from blowing them to smithereens. Risky though, Leia!
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
