Five Star Wars Plot Holes Explained, Explained.
Re: This Article on the Huffington Post
Yeah, these aren't really surprises.
Let's assume these aren't "holes" and that we have to take a _certain point of view_ with the scenes:
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Leia is adopted by the Organa's. Since this is Alderaan and they're a peaceful people with no weapons, one could reasonably assume that adoption is fairly common, even amongst royalty. Since the Empire didn't know Padme had children there is no reason to look for them, especially as one adoptee on one of a thousand planets.
Luke on the other hand _does_ still use the Skywalker name. However, Tattooine is a backwater planet on the outer rim. As long as Owen and Beru didn't register Luke with the government (which might be why they didn't want him going off to join the Academy) he should have been fairly well hidden. Again, it's not like Vader and Sidious were looking for Skywalker's dead children. And again, one backwater planet amongst thousands of inhabited worlds in this galaxy. That's a very small needle in a very large haystack. Even in the US with our surveillance state, people hide in plain sight all the time.
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This one takes a bit more of a stretch of the imagination, but let's assume for a second that in this galaxy "lightspeed" is a unit of measurement, similar to "mach." Horsepower measures against an antiquated measurement of one horse equals one horsepower. If "lightspeed" is taken in the same context, then it could be used similar to .5 past mach-1, or .5 past whatever speed it is measuring. So, imagine "lightspeed" is equal to speeds similar warp 5 (of Star Trek). Point 5 past lightspeed would then be warp 5.5.
Of course, I've read most of the books, so I know what George Lucas put in _A New Hope_ was just his non-understanding of intergalactic travel.
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Protocol and astromech droids were put out by the millions. It's isn't unsurprising that no one noticed them or gave them a second glance, especially since, in the SW universe, droids are the servants no one notices. Like slaves. Don't look, you don't want to see them.
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It may have only been a few hours, but more than likely it was only a few days. Lucas cleanly avoids mentioning how much time passed so we have to use our own assumptions. Just like a modern movie showing someone getting on an aircraft in Chicago and then off the aircraft in Berlin. We don't see the travel time and we have to assume there wasn't a black hole or warmhole or anything.
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_Is there actually no new hope then?_
The subtitle is _A New Hope_ not, _The Last Hope_. Something is only new until it's not any more. Luke was the "new hope" and should he have failed, Leia would have been _a_ "New Hope.
Yeah, these aren't really surprises.
Let's assume these aren't "holes" and that we have to take a _certain point of view_ with the scenes:
1-
Leia is adopted by the Organa's. Since this is Alderaan and they're a peaceful people with no weapons, one could reasonably assume that adoption is fairly common, even amongst royalty. Since the Empire didn't know Padme had children there is no reason to look for them, especially as one adoptee on one of a thousand planets.
Luke on the other hand _does_ still use the Skywalker name. However, Tattooine is a backwater planet on the outer rim. As long as Owen and Beru didn't register Luke with the government (which might be why they didn't want him going off to join the Academy) he should have been fairly well hidden. Again, it's not like Vader and Sidious were looking for Skywalker's dead children. And again, one backwater planet amongst thousands of inhabited worlds in this galaxy. That's a very small needle in a very large haystack. Even in the US with our surveillance state, people hide in plain sight all the time.
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This one takes a bit more of a stretch of the imagination, but let's assume for a second that in this galaxy "lightspeed" is a unit of measurement, similar to "mach." Horsepower measures against an antiquated measurement of one horse equals one horsepower. If "lightspeed" is taken in the same context, then it could be used similar to .5 past mach-1, or .5 past whatever speed it is measuring. So, imagine "lightspeed" is equal to speeds similar warp 5 (of Star Trek). Point 5 past lightspeed would then be warp 5.5.
Of course, I've read most of the books, so I know what George Lucas put in _A New Hope_ was just his non-understanding of intergalactic travel.
3-
Protocol and astromech droids were put out by the millions. It's isn't unsurprising that no one noticed them or gave them a second glance, especially since, in the SW universe, droids are the servants no one notices. Like slaves. Don't look, you don't want to see them.
4-
It may have only been a few hours, but more than likely it was only a few days. Lucas cleanly avoids mentioning how much time passed so we have to use our own assumptions. Just like a modern movie showing someone getting on an aircraft in Chicago and then off the aircraft in Berlin. We don't see the travel time and we have to assume there wasn't a black hole or warmhole or anything.
5-
_Is there actually no new hope then?_
The subtitle is _A New Hope_ not, _The Last Hope_. Something is only new until it's not any more. Luke was the "new hope" and should he have failed, Leia would have been _a_ "New Hope.
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