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What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment.

"Senator Amidala is in a coma. Even if she recovers, she will never be the same and may not live long." But no.... George had to have his god-damned funeral scene, even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher's most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ, as well as one of the more intriguing OT lore dumps.

Bonus points if a scene was scripted or filmed and got cut.

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What? Never heard that. Why?

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So that they can track the ship back to the rebel base!

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

That makes sense.

[–] echodot 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because Luke is his son and he still cares about him. He just tries to hide it from the emperor and in the end has to kill him to save Luke.

The problem is the audience only ever finds this out in the final movie so it doesn't make a lot of sense in the first two films. I'm not sure if there was a good way to address this though because the only option would have been to have a scene where Vader basically explains all this to Luke. It seems a bit late in the story for it really to be relevant.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

What? I'm pretty sure they do it so they can track them back to the rebel base.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Vader didn't know Luke was his son until episode 2. They let them escape so they could track them back to the rebel base.