I was speaking more towards the people who think the human body blows up like a water balloon in space.
In a movie universe where spaceships and explosions can be heard in a vacuum, and often defy physics, giant slugs live inside an apparently airless asteroid, people with magical powers formally fight with improbable laser swords when a blaster would end things quicker, (see Obi-Wan vs. Grevious) and overgrown teddy bears kicked Imperial ass, Leia in space was the one bridge too far? I give up.
It wasn’t the improbability of Leia flying—we all know that films rely on suspending disbelief, and it was required many times in the OT, but it was more the TONE that struck me as so odd. The tone of the flying Leia scene was totally off, totally un-Star Wars-like, and I think that’s why so many people were like “WTF”?!
Besides, a bunch of overgrown teddy bears kicking Imperial ass is no more improbable than a bunch of under-equipped colonists beating the British Empire, no? 😉
Perhaps because it feels more like a scene from a hard Sci-fi film? The only other time someone gets sucked out into space was in Episode III, when General Grevious smashes a window on the bridge of his cruiser to escape and walks outside on the hull to reach the escape pods. With Grevious being a cyborg with a hacking cough, I have a few issues with that sequence. 😉