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00:00 In the case of some of these particularly puzzling small and big screen occurrences,
00:04 some dedicated fans obviously have their theories as to what the real answers to the questions
00:09 sent the following scene's way actually are.
00:12 But that still doesn't change the fact that each of these rather odd Star Wars moments
00:16 inspired more confusion than space-age joy when all was said and done.
00:20 Gareth here from What Culture Star Wars and here are the 10 most confusing scenes in Star
00:25 Wars history.
00:26 Number 10 - Why did Padme possess a magic button?
00:31 Even with this being the same galaxy that boasts eternally cool lightsabers, healing
00:36 bacta tanks and cybernetic limbs, some still struggle to understand how Padme Amidala managed
00:41 to come into possession of a magic all-in-one button during the events of Attack of the
00:45 Clones.
00:46 With Obi-Wan Kenobi asking Padawan Anakin Skywalker and Padme to patch him through to
00:50 the Jedi Council whilst the pair aboard a Naboo Yacht, Amidala does so by pressing a
00:55 specific button on the ship's control panel.
00:58 But then, moments later, Padme presses the exact same button to perform an entirely different
01:03 command, that being to bring up a map of the galaxy highlighting how far away Geonosis
01:08 is.
01:09 Is this the most convenient ship ever created?
01:11 Or perhaps Lucas simply hoped fans wouldn't notice that Natalie Portman tapped the exact
01:15 same key for two different shots?
01:17 Number 9 - How could Han Solo not believe in the Force?
01:21 Episode 4 - A New Hope
01:23 This particular fantasy galaxy is a rather massive place, don't you know?
01:26 So it made sense that there would be some corners of this sprawling universe that may
01:30 not have actually come into contact with the Force or the Jedi for that matter.
01:34 But even with that possibly being the case, Han Solo not believing in the Jedi by the
01:38 time of A New Hope still seems a little odd upon a rewatch.
01:42 With Solo being around 9 years old at the time of Order 66 being put into motion, there's
01:46 a pretty solid chance he would have been made aware of the Jedi's part in the Clone Wars.
01:51 But with his homeworld of Corellia very much finding itself in the middle of the galaxy
01:55 changing action, and even if he didn't come into physical contact with the Jedi, there's
01:59 a strong possibility he would have at least stumbled upon the odd Inquisitor or Force
02:04 user during his time smuggling across the galaxy.
02:07 Perhaps Solo was just being his typically defiant self in the face of a space wizard,
02:11 or maybe he had actually only ever heard of Force users and simply chose to only believe
02:15 what he saw with his own two eyes.
02:18 It does seem like that kind of bloke, though the latter still feels like a bit of a stretch
02:21 given how much of a presence the Force still ultimately had in the galaxy in the years
02:25 post Order 66.
02:28 Why did Princess Leia suddenly become British?
02:31 Episode 4 A New Hope
02:33 Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia Organa had little problem going toe to toe with the galaxy's
02:37 biggest bads out of the gates.
02:39 Yet it's during one of those early appearances opposite the likes of Grand Moff Tarkin and
02:43 Darth Vader that a rather bizarre occurrence comes to light, and then quickly vanishes.
02:48 I'm talking about the brief exchange between Leia and Peter Cushion's Tarkin that sees
02:53 Fisher suddenly revert to an RP British accent for a few lines in A New Hope.
02:58 However, the second Leia finds her home planet of Alderaan being threatened, Fisher reverts
03:02 back to an American twang and maintains said way of speaking for the rest of her time in
03:06 the series.
03:07 What gives?
03:08 Well, it has been claimed in an attempted retcon of sorts that this was merely Leia's
03:12 way of mocking the Grand Moff in canon.
03:15 But in reality Fisher's odd British switch was more a combination of the star struggling
03:19 to deliver these particular lines in an American accent, being advised to add more emotion
03:24 to the moment by George Lucas, learning her acting trade in London, and being a little
03:28 bit intimidated by the mighty British thespian Cushing.
03:32 Those revelations don't stop the whole sudden vocal switch still feeling a little bizarre,
03:36 though.
03:37 Number 7, so we can just light speed skip now?
03:40 Episode 9 The Rise of Skywalker
03:41 There's nothing quite like the sight of witnessing a spaceship make the epic jump
03:46 into light speed air.
03:48 But it's shown on more than a few occasions throughout the Skywalker saga in particular
03:52 that executing this highly intricate act isn't as simple as yanking forward a lever and bashing
03:57 a few buttons real quick.
03:59 Only contrary to what Han Solo declared to Luke Skywalker during A New Hope, claiming
04:03 without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, it actually is just
04:07 that easy for some.
04:08 Go figure.
04:09 While it'll likely wind up being a deliver a mind-boggling visual first and think about
04:13 the logic later development, when crafting The Rise of Skywalker, Poe Dameron helps the
04:17 gang escape incoming TIE fighter peril by light speed skipping across the galaxy.
04:22 And regardless of Solo's surprisingly sensible warnings against trying to rush the process,
04:27 the crew bafflingly proceed to suddenly blast off into hyperspace at the pull of a switch
04:31 and tap of the odd button.
04:33 Making matters even more confusing, the team then wind up rocking up on numerous different
04:37 planets upon bursting out of hyperspace, despite this never actually being a thing at any other
04:42 point in the saga.
04:43 6.
04:44 How did Poe survive that crash?
04:46 Episode 7, The Force Awakens
04:48 Pretty early into The Force Awakens, it actually looked like fans had been robbed of a multi-film
04:53 showing from the always compelling Oscar Isaac early on, with Poe Dameron being assumed dead
04:58 in the wake of crash landing on Jakku with Finn in the first act.
05:02 It's well known how the original plan was to actually kiss goodbye to Poe after that
05:05 dramatic escape from the First Order's clutches, which probably explains why the nature of
05:10 his eventual survival was quickly skipped over in the film itself.
05:13 And for a while, fans were merely left to speculate precisely how Poe was somehow able
05:17 to survive being thrown from a crash and find his way back to the Resistance.
05:22 But then Alan Dean Foster's eventual novelization of the flick shed a bit more light on this
05:26 slightly unclear turn of events.
05:29 Upon waking up from being launched far away from the crash, Dameron actually encountered
05:33 a scavenger who helped him reconnect with his allies.
05:36 Simple as that, really.
05:37 But for those who haven't found the time to pick up Foster's book, Poe's convenient
05:40 re-emergence definitely came across as a little suspicious partway through Episode 7.
05:46 5.
05:47 What can Force Ghosts do, and do not, again?
05:50 Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker
05:52 By the time of the sequel trilogy, the sight of a Force ghost/spirit eventually rocking
05:57 up to offer some sage advice to a struggling protagonist was almost inevitable.
06:02 But the visual of Master Yoda and Luke Skywalker performing everything from stick wax to the
06:06 noggin to lifting entire X-Wings after death definitely left more than a few fans with
06:11 a rather puzzled expression on their mugs over the course of Episode 8 and 9.
06:16 Now some could easily point to the fact that a Force spirit, Obi-Wan, physically interacted
06:20 with the living world on Dagobah back in the original trilogy.
06:23 But there's definitely a rather significant difference between taking a breather on some
06:27 wood and using the Force to perform mind-blowing acts upon biting the dust.
06:31 Perhaps the all-powerful duo were simply able to execute these frankly insane acts due to
06:36 the fact that Ahch-To was particularly strong with the Force, similarly to Dagobah.
06:41 But that's still not exactly clearly explained on the big screen during the two Masters'
06:45 Force charge returns.
06:47 4.
06:48 Droids can't feel pain?
06:50 Episode 6, Return of the Jedi
06:51 It's pretty tough to even feel a little bit of sympathy for the waves of generic battle
06:56 droids routinely found being slaughtered by the Jedi and clones throughout the devastating
07:00 Clone Wars.
07:01 It's not as though the annoying collection of circuits suffer any feeling of real pain
07:05 upon being blasted to smithereens.
07:06 Or do they?
07:08 Admittedly, the likes of said battle droids and C-3PO routinely letting loose cries of
07:12 fear does suggest that many of these bots across the galaxy had been programmed to replicate
07:17 living beings' emotions.
07:19 But even if that is the case, that doesn't necessarily mean the bots would have any concept
07:23 of actual pain.
07:24 What a bit of use in that.
07:25 And that's what makes a sequence during Return of the Jedi's opening moments so strange
07:30 to behold.
07:31 With Jabba's palace containing a droid torture chamber, the sea's a gonk bot getting its
07:35 feet horrifically scorched to the sound of screams.
07:39 So this was excruciating for that droid.
07:41 But an arm and legless 3PO was absolutely fine in the immediate aftermath of being blown
07:46 to bits by stormtroopers one film earlier?
07:48 Seems a bit weird.
07:49 3.
07:50 Why didn't they scan the ship?
07:52 Episode 4, A New Hope
07:54 With C-3PO and R2-D2 looking to make a sneaky escape from the action during the film's
07:59 opening stages, the Imperial forces soon scan their escape pod and come to the conclusion
08:04 that there are no lifeforms on board.
08:06 How rude.
08:07 Why didn't the Empire use this exact same piece of kit during the moment the protagonist
08:11 landed inside of the Death Star later in that very film?
08:15 Instead of putting this pretty effective piece of tech to work once again, the decision is
08:19 made to simply send in a human scanning crew after reading the Millennium Falcon's log
08:24 and deducing that the ship must have been abandoned.
08:26 Admittedly, the heroes hiding in Han Solo's secret compartments could have possibly helped
08:31 them literally stay under the radar, but even Solo himself notes how he uses them for smuggling
08:36 and not for hiding himself, so there's no guarantee lifeforms wouldn't be picked up
08:39 on scanners even in those secret spots.
08:42 All in all, someone clearly figured it'd be a somewhat anticlimactic end to the flick
08:46 if the team were also quickly captured and dumped into a cell to rot with later.
08:51 2.
08:52 Why didn't Obi-Wan go around the laser gate?
08:54 Obi-Wan Kenobi
08:55 Even with Obi-Wan Kenobi being out of the action-packed adventure game for quite some
09:00 time, heading into the events of his own titular Disney+ series, that still doesn't excuse
09:05 his complete lack of awareness when faced with a somewhat simple obstacle on Mapuzo.
09:10 After managing to stave off the danger brought on by a group of stormtroopers with a little
09:14 help from an uncivilised blaster, the one-time master of Anakin Skywalker looked to make
09:19 his escape alongside his former padawan's daughter Leia.
09:22 But oh no, a laser gate stands between our heroes and freedom!
09:26 If only there was a pretty obvious gap on each side of the laser fence for these two
09:30 quick-thinking protagonists to take advantage of in the moment.
09:33 Oh wait, there was, yeah.
09:35 Had the two heroes opted to hop inside of the transport and continue their journey,
09:40 then this would have made a bit more sense, but the fact they resumed the mission on foot
09:43 paved the way for one of the most confusing pieces of decision-making ever unleashed into
09:48 this galaxy far, far away.
09:50 1.
09:51 How does Din Djarin not know who Bo-Katan is, the Mandalorian?
09:54 It's not all that hard to understand why even some of the most well-known faces from
09:59 across the galaxy never actually came into contact with one another.
10:02 Again, it's rather big.
10:04 However, one eventual first interaction that still didn't quite add up came in the form
10:08 of the moment Din Djarin finally came face-to-face with the almost mythical Bo-Katan of Clan
10:13 Kryze during Season 2 of The Mandalorian.
10:16 Mando quickly pushes back against these apparent strangers, asking them where they got their
10:20 armour upon Kryze's night owls taking off their helmets.
10:23 Blasphemy!
10:24 He even goes as far as to claim that Kryze is not Mandalorian, before Bo-Katan explains
10:29 exactly who she is.
10:30 You know, the person who once ruled Mandalore in the lead-up to the Great Purge.
10:33 But Djarin was no doubt aware of the Night of a Thousand Tears that saw the Mandalorian's
10:37 homeworld be massacred.
10:39 So did the cloistered Children of the Watch and the tribe just choose to leave the Bo-Katan
10:43 part out of the story?
10:44 And even if that was the case - cults are a bit weird to be honest - the fact Mando
10:47 acts as a bounty hunter would have probably led to him at least hearing about other Mandalorians
10:52 and/or Bo-Katan's attempts to fight off the Empire during his travels, right?
10:56 In all honesty, this tense initial meet was likely brought about as a way of simply letting
11:00 the audience know a little more about the backgrounds of all on screen, with Djarin
11:04 being revealed as a Child of the Watch and Bo-Katan getting the chance to read off her
11:08 resume on the live-action stage for the very first time.
11:11 Yet even with that in mind, it still ended up throwing up a few more questions than answers
11:15 in the end.
11:16 And that's our list over the other confusing scenes in Star Wars.
11:20 Let us know all about them in the comments section right down below and do not forget
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11:36 I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, may the Force be with you as always, thanks
11:40 for clicking on this video today and hopefully I'll see your faces very, very soon.
11:44 Bye!
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