zombie84 said:

Uh, she could have just flown to wherever and transfered to a different ship. Or better yet, removed the frickin homing beacon, since she knew the Falcon was being tracked. But whatever, even Citizen Kane has a fundamental plot hole.

(This is also in response to Akwat Kbrana)

Don't forget this, though:

"( assuming they could find it* at their leisure , and then try to take it out)?????"

Agreed on your caveat re Citizen Kane, though.

*or, as I should say, "find it AGAIN" ("it" being the Death Star). Remember how the heroes 'luckily' got acquainted with the DS the first time? Yet, I never hear people complain about how convenient to the plot that was.....

Come on, we know the reason for the 'plot hole' in SW. It's because Lucas wanted the Death Star battle - which was originally going to be at the end of Part III - to appear in the first film..........

..........oh wait. I'm using what's most likely a revisionist meme (see paragraph above) to justify a so-called plot hole that was 'shoe-horned' into the first film.