A franchise as massive as the galaxy far, far away—one that still shows no signs of slowing down in its growth—and a series with so many moving parts is always going to struggle when it comes to consistency.
Even before numerous new creators entered the worlds of Star Wars to put their own stamp on the universe, occasionally creating a few plot holes in the process, the great George Lucas himself would drop the narrative ball every now and then, eventually inserting moments into his prequels that created a number of frustrating plot holes in the original trilogy – here’s Leia remembering her mother!
However, not all of these “plot holes” in Star Wars are actually as confusing and nonsensical as they seem, folks.
Sometimes all you have to do is pick up a comic book or another medium outside of the cinema or television adventures, or just think a little longer about the subject in question, to realize that these inappropriate moments are anything but appropriate.
So now that we’ve looked at some other “plot holes” that really don’t happen here, buckle up and get ready to learn why everything from the lack of Force speed to a certain Mandalorian’s ignorance of the legendary Jedi actually makes perfect sense.
Although this was not seen in the original trilogy, George Lucas finally revealed in the prequels that Jedi were capable of sprinting at almost incredible speeds.
Well, at least he did it once.
After Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi got themselves out of trouble with a Force sprint early on in “Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” this extremely useful ability was never seen on the big screen again – although Mace Windu did use it in the animated microseries “Star Wars: Clone Wars.”
But it sure would have come in handy when Kenobi tried to catch up with his Jedi Master during their duel with Darth Maul, right?
In reality, the reason we never saw this particular version of a Force Dash again was probably because it didn’t look that great on screen. However, said Duel of the Fates plot hole actually has a pretty logical in-universe explanation.
According to a number of sources outside of the films, including Mick Chen’s novel Brotherhood, using Force Dash drains the user of energy for a short period of time. This means that if Kenobi had actually chosen to use it to catch up to Jinn in the scene, it likely wouldn’t have been of much use to anyone and could have actually been somewhat of a liability.
So he wisely decided against it.
