Expedited Jedi Training
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke’s Jedi training takes only as long as it takes for the Falcon to fly to Bespin. At most this can only be a few days. Such a big deal is made of the Jedi training, there’s no way its only a few day affair. Though his training is in no way complete, this is still a surprising cut off of his training.
Leia Is A Robot
Leia is not nearly emotional enough when: she watches her home planet get completely blown up, she finds out her father tortured her and blew up said planet, she had to be a slave-girl, and she found out she kissed her brother. Leia takes it all relatively well, as if this isn’t the first time she’s been a slave-girl or kissed her brother.
Stormtroopers Are Useless
Stormtroopers are supposed to be some of the most highly trained fighters, yet they cannot hit anything with their lasers. Further, their armor not only does not protect them well, it looks inconvenient to move in and the helmet looks impossible to see out of. If good guys are around you can be sure that the Stormtroopers lasers will not land anywhere useful.
Skywalker Didn’t Give it Away?
Vader interacts with Leia several times and never feels the family bond, he also does not sense Luke until the Emperor hints at his existence. People feel family bonds between each other, so why can’t Vader?
The Force? What Force?
There are countless times throughout all of the movies where Jedis who can use the Force don’t. Why wouldn’t you use the easiest method to solve your problems? For some reason, the Jedis fight as if they don’t have the power to use the Force.
Yoda’s “Death”
Yoda lives for 900 years and manages to not tell Luke about his sister until right before he dies. At least he managed to get that out in time.
Obi Wan Is Losing It
The order of the films makes a lot of the things Kenobi says and does seem like he’s the most forgetful man in the world. Most specifically, why doesn’t he recognize the droids he worked with for so long? He doesn’t even remark on how similar they look.
Emperor Palpatine Is Incompetent
Emperor Palpatine is a master manipulator, and yet he lets the rebels run all over him. In Episodes 1-3, Palpatine manages to manipulate the Trade Federation, play both sides of The Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, exterminate the Jedi with Order 66, drive Yoda and Obi-wan into hiding, consolidate his power as a leader of the new Galactic Empire, and most famously, corrupt Anakin Skywalker into his new apprentice, Darth Vader. It seems strange that a rag tag group of Rebels in outdated starships could succeed in overthrowing such a powerful leader, who remains conspicuously absent throughout A New Hope, and makes only a brief appearance in The Empire Strikes Back. Even though he finally oversees the final battle against the Rebels, he still manages to get thrown down a reactor shaft. Senile incompetence, maybe?
Despite these plot holes, Star Wars is one of the most popular movie series. Unfortunately Disney is going to try to remake it, so at least we will have that to make fun of soon.