Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Unforgivable Plot Holes

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi follows up J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens, picking up on the war between Supreme Leader Snoke's First Order and General Leia's Resistance. However, Johnson adopts a darker, more personal approach as he focuses on the mystical aspects of the Force.

He subverts a lot of the old mythos in the process, especially the role of Luke Skywalker. In the end, Kylo Ren basically becomes the new Darth Vader and Emperor all in one; Rey takes up the mantle of the last Jedi from Luke; and the Resistance barely makes it out alive. With all these threads connecting and Johnson introducing more new characters, it's no surprise that the movie comes with a few plot holes. Let's take a look at some of them.

5. WHY ISN'T LIGHTSPEED RAMMING MORE OF A THING?

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When Laura Dern's Admiral Holdo stays on the Resistance's Raddus flagship as a diversion, she allows smaller transport vessels to sneak everyone off and onto Crait. However, after the codebreaker known as DJ betrays them, the First Order starts picking off ships one by one. Holdo then engages the ship's lightspeed warp and rams it into Supremacy.

It's an effective move, to say the least, but one that leaves us wondering: why wasn't this done before in Star Wars lore? Surely the Resistance could have controlled smaller space vessels remotely and piloted them like kamikaze bombers. This would save lives and also be something tough to maneuver against. Holdo shows a military brilliance that surpasses the likes of Admiral Ackbar, Han Solo, and Poe Dameron here.

4. WHY WOULD SNOKE WANT REY BROUGHT TO HIM WITH HER WEAPON?

Rey leaves Luke on Ahch-To to redeem Kylo. Thanks to the Force, her mental connection to him allows her to see a glimmer of hope and she drops in on Snoke's ship, Supremacy, via an escape pod from the Millennium Falcon. Kylo then takes her to Snoke, with Luke's lightsaber in tow.

Seriously though, when you take a prisoner of war, you disarm them. You don't interrogate them with their weapon. Even if Snoke's more powerful than her, there's still a slim chance that given her prowess and brief tutelage under Luke, she could still pose a threat. It's an amateur move from the Supreme Leader. This more or less justifies the fate he meets because someone so wise shouldn't be this naive against a person he believes is his nemesis.

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3. HOW DID REY GET BACK TO THE FALCON?

As Holdo decimates Snoke's ship, this allows Rey to escape after her showdown with Snoke and Kylo Ren. Later on, when the Resistance is under attack on Crait, she's suddenly back on the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca shooting down her enemies. When and how did this happen?

If the Falcon picked her up in space, surely the First Order would detect them and engage. Even if she secretly stole one of Snoke's smaller cruisers, that means she'd have to then jump ship again onto the Falcon. This seems way too convoluted. Rey on the Falcon is yet again another deus ex machina we're forced to accept. That is unless Johnson gives us the longer director's cut that might fill in the blanks. Until then, it seems Rey can use the Force to teleport.

2. HOW WERE LEIA AND KYLO ABLE TO PICK UP THE ILLUSORY DICE?

Han Solo's golden dice is a very sentimental Easter Egg, harkening back to George Lucas' first trilogy where we can glimpse the trinket on the Falcon. The dice are a good-luck charm, embodying Han's life as a rogue. In this movie, Luke finds it on the Falcon and later when he Force-projects to Leia, he presents the dice to her to remind her of the trio's bond.

After Luke dies and the Resistance escapes, Kylo's then seen holding the dice, which fade away in his hands, confirming they're a projection Luke sent. So how were Kylo and his mother able to hold them? Due to the Force? Maybe because of their connection with Han? Both are unlikely because as seen when Luke fights Kylo, a projection is a projection. It's just like a Force Ghost -- it cannot be materialized or held.

1. WHY COULDN'T SNOKE SENSE KYLO'S BETRAYAL?

When Snoke reveals that he manipulated the mental connection between Kylo and Rey, fans were in shock because it was a masterful move. This brought Rey in for the kill and drew him one step closer to snuffing out Luke. However, Kylo sees the opportunity and uses Rey's lightsaber (remember, the one we just mentioned) that Snoke had next to him, to slice his master in half.

Apart from Snoke's idiotic decision to leave the weapon next to him, how could he not sense that Kylo was harnessing the Force to assassinate him? Especially as he clearly was in Kylo's mind, playing him like a fiddle all along. It could be that he was too preoccupied with torturing Rey, but still, Kylo clearly telegraphs his next move making Snoke seem like a Supreme Novice.

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as ‘DJ’, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa. The film is in theaters worldwide.