well, if characters were to survive after an explosion and getting sucked to space, space battles would have no tension at all. not when force users are the pilots at least.
Of course there’s still tension, the same way there’s tension in an Earthly aerial dogfight. If your fighter explodes, you’re likely not making it. If you are lucky enough to make it out alive, even if you’re a force user, there’s still the danger of a battle still on going, and where exactly you’re going to go to save yourself.
i do recall a clone wars episode where plo koon and three clones survive outisde for a very short period of time - and they explicitly say that plo koon survives because of the mask he uses and that the clones survive because of their armor.
They’re out there for quite awhile with no issue. Interesting that they don’t implode or whatever people think happen.
and the kanan example shared above lasts for basically 5-10 seconds, and you can clearly see that he was almost, well, freezing to death already. i was under the impression leia was floating in space for a couple of minutes at least.
Don’t think it was that long for Leia. Also notice that Kanan is back on his feet immediately, while Leia is in a coma for most of the rest of the film.