Despite their overwhelming popularity, the Star Wars movies are not perfect. Rather, some of them (namely the prequels) are very bad! That said, fans and critics alike tend to overlook some of the more glaring flaws in the saga what are otherwise enjoyable movies that launched a pop culture phenomenon. Who needs a tightly woven plot when some artist can design a rolling ball droid that will sell $1 billion worth of action figures?
Are most fans going to stop to consider how Obi-Wan doesn't recognize his own droids, when there are big space machines shooting lasers at one another? Absolutely not! So, we went through and picked out some of the biggest plot points that make absolutely no sense.
Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Why does Obi-Wan say Yoda is the Jedi Master who trained him when that was clearly Qui-Gon Jinn?
Qui-Gon uses Jedi powers to win a bet. Why doesn't he use them to ensure Anakin's podracing win?
Why is technology so much more advanced 32 years before the events in the original Star Wars?
Episode II: Attack of the Clones
How the fuck did walking lampshade Jar Jar Binks become a politician?
Why was it never explained why Jedi Master "Sifo-Dyas" ordered the clone army?
Why does Count Dooku just tell Obi-Wan the Sith's strategy for undermining the Senate?
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
If Chewbacca always knew the Jedi were real, why didn’t Han believe him?
Why'd they hide Luke on Vader's home planet and even have him keep the Skywalker name?
Why does Yoda go into exile instead of just going back to kill Vader and Palpatine?
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
If C-3PO's memory was wiped at the end of Episode III, how does he know R2D2 here?
How can a man with a stick disable a whole group of armored stormtroopers?
Episode IV: A New Hope
Why doesn't Obi-Wan recognize R2-D2 or C-3PO?
What happened to all that advanced technology?
Why did the Death Star need to travel around the moon to destroy the rebel base? Couldn't it just blow it up?
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
How did Luke get around the blockade of Hoth?
Why does the Empire only disable the Millennium Falcon hyperdrive and not the whole ship?
Luke became a Jedi Master by training with Yoda for only a few days?
Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
How can Leia remember her mother, when Padme died in childbirth?
How can two trees destroy an armored battle vehicle like an AT-ST?
How did the Ewoks have a dress in Leia’s size?
Why do all the force ghosts appear to Luke as he knew them in his life, except Anakin?
Episode VII: The Force Awakens
How did Poe Dameron survive the crash landing on Jakku?
How has Han never used Chewbacca’s gun?
If the Millenium Falcon was old garbage, how did it have any fuel?
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Why didn't they just use a droid to pilot the Resistance ship on the kamikaze mission?
How did Snoke become a dark lord if there were no Sith left after Return of the Jedi?
Matt Miller is a Brooklyn-based culture/lifestyle writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Esquire, Forbes, The Denver Post, and documentaries.
