Star Wars: Rogue One - 9 Ways It Actually Improves The Original Trilogy

2. Closes A Huge Plot Hole

I mean, it's obvious this one isn't it? The Empire go through all the trouble of making a planet-killing intergalactic battle station, and then forget to put a cover over a vent that leads to the main reactor chamber. You can put it down to a technical oversight if you like but, come now friends, it is and has always been a glaring plot hole. I mean, loathe as I am to reference Family Guy in this incredibly serious dissection of cinema, this pretty much kills it dead.

I can't really surmise it any better than that. 99.99% indestructible, but if you get a shot down a two-metre vent the whole station blows up. It's an absolutely ludicrous oversight in the writing of A New Hope, and if Rogue One should be praised for anything, it's that it's given us a plausible and logical reason for it.

The man who made the weapon did so against his will, but because he knew that if he did then he could also quietly conceive of a way to destroy it. Thinking he'd lost both his wife and his child, with seemingly nothing left to live for, he dedicated himself to bringing down those who had wronged him. As closing plot holes go, that one's got to be up there.