A highly specific aspect of ‘Star Wars’ singled out as the franchise’s most unrealistic element

It’s probably best not to overthink Star Wars tech. The nuts and bolts were figured out by George Lucas in the 1970s, meaning that while ships can leap around the galaxy using their hyperdrive, they don’t have everyday modern tech like the internet, mobile phones, and so on. The best material leans into that fact, with Andor going so far as to limit the prop design team to materials that A New Hope designers would have had available to them in the mid-70s.

But, one fan has called out a particularly unusual wrinkle when it comes to the space battles: