Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
I'm currently listening to the Star Wars radio drama. I just finished chapter 11 (out of 13). It's absolutely remarkable how the story to Star Wars holds up to the scrutiny of a 6 hour magnifying glass. It's all logical and it all makes sense.

Neil

Well, radio dramas aside, there are many far-fetched moments in the original Star Wars. Just off the top of my head:

1. Why were the Imperials so worried about wasting one measely laserblast to destroy an escape pod?
2. How can a civilization of dessert-nomad midgets make a living in a desolate desert scavenging old android parts?
3. How the hell does a light saber work? If it needs the force, then how did Luke use one right away before he's had any training? If it's technological, then why aren't there any better applications for such a devastating technology? Does a light saber ever run out of juice? Did Obiwan charge it up for Luke?
4. If the imperial troops are such deadly marksmen, then how come they can't hit anything they shoot at?
5. How did the heroes escape Mos Eisley after making such a ruckus and mess right under the empire's nose?
6. Why is such a huge space station needed to destroy a planet? They don't have the technology to construct a smaller weapon capable of the same effect?
7. Simple "smuggling compartments" would hide the heroes from every scanner in the Death Star?
8. We're to believe that no Imperial troops were left on board the falcon to ensure that it remained secure? Two measly soldiers outside the main hatch were enough to guard a ship that potentially carried stolen data very sensitive to the Empire?
9. An advanced technological culture can't put up security cameras in their Death Star? What about simple guard patrols? Wouldn't they have a better scanners for properly detecting blaster fire?
10. Are we to believe that every damn soldier on the death star was completely incompetent? They drop like flies. And doesn't the Empire have a way to monitor the status and location of individual soldiers to determine if they are wounded or dead?
11. The prison assault is ridiculous for two men and a "wookie" to have performed. And simply shooting cameras will hide what they are doing?
12. Again, the Empire is so totally incompetent that they don't know where a shaft in their station leads? They should have arrived at the garbage compacter and killed our whole lot of heroes.
13. Seriously, why can't the damn storm troopers hit anything?
14. A few Tie Fighters from a station the size of a small moon were meant to seem like a plausible attempt to stop the Millennium Falcon?
15. If Princess Lea knew it was a trap, why did she lead the Empire to straight to the heart of the rebellion?
16. The Empire would put so much work into building a giant space station but not have any turrets capable of shooting down inexpensive fighter craft?
17. Again, we have a super expensive space station, but we have it specifically designed to have a curiously volatile exhaust port? One little explosion can blow up the entire station via a chain reaction? Who freakin' overlooked a flaw like that? Even without considering attacks from enemies, simple accidents would be fatal with that thing. Its like sitting on a powder keg in a war zone.
18. Why exactly was the exhaust port so volatile? What possible technology would require such a design? It’s almost like you'd have to design it to be that way on purpose.
19. How did the rebels find this one fatal flaw in only a few hours while the Empire never even had the slightest clue as to the clear danger their exhaust port clearly was?
20. They blow up the Death Star and then in their no-longer-secret base and they have time to set up an elaborate award ceremony and stand around grinning while star cruisers might be heading straight for them?