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People constantly whine about the prequels but this movie was just as bad. There are so many plot holes! inb4 nerds just rage rather than address my following points:
Androids are important. They can convey information, fight in battles, etc. Two of our main characters are androids, and (if you account for prequels just a teensy bit) androids formed the rank and file military forces before the clone stormtroopers were developed. Vader himself is mostly cybernetic at this point. So why on God's green Alderaan did an Imperial idiot let an escape pod go because there were "no life signs" on it, and why did a second Imperial idiot find that order even the slightest bit reasonable? That pod's escape leads to the Death Star's destruction, and one laser blast would have prevented it.
At the end of the film, the Empire sends the Death Star to the Yavin system to destroy the no-longer-secret Rebel base. The Rebellion has 10 minutes to scramble their fighters and exploit the station's only weakness.But here's the catch: the only reason the Rebellion had those 10 precious minutes was because the Death Star had to orbit Yavin to get into position. Think about that one for a minute. The Death Star had to delay destroying the moon because there was a planet in the way. The whole purpose of the Death Star--indeed the only purpose that gets drilled into our heads from the start of the movie--is to destroy planets. But the giant planet destroyer had to wait 10 minutes because there was a planet in the way. WTF George ?
wasn't the existence and identity of Vader's children supposed to be a secret? Why, then, was Luke allowed to retain the surname Skywalker, and why did everyone know that Leia was a Princess (a title she must have inherited from her mother, or else it is the most conspicuous cover identity imaginable)? You don't need Force-powers to put two and two together here....