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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Better editing and the removal of two scenes

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Leia floating in space and Yoda's appearance, which makes zero sense, would have made for a much better movie, along with Luke looking over the Ach-To ocean, before hitting the credits. There was no reason for him to disappear into the Force.

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So the Leia floating in space thing was a WTF moment for me as well. Then I realized that I didn't really know what happens if you get sucked out into the vacuum of space that I haven't learned from cheap sci-fi movies so I googled it and read this:

"It's a recurring horror in sci-fi: the hull is pierced, a human is trapped without equipment in an airlock about to open, a door needs to be opened in order to expel something undesirable. With no air and almost zero pressure, the human body isn't going to last long without some form of protection.

But what does happen, exactly? Do your eyes explode outward while your blood evaporates? Well, no. The truth is both less dramatic and far more fascinating -- as we have discovered through accidents in space and in test chambers, and animal experimentation in the 1960s.

The first thing you would notice is the lack of air. You wouldn't lose consciousness straight away; it might take up to 15 seconds as your body uses up the remaining oxygen reserves from your bloodstream, and -- if you don't hold your breath -- you could perhaps survive for as long as two minutes without permanent injury.

So now that I know it isn't impossible to survive the elements of space without a suit the only leap I'm asked to make is that Leia was somehow able to force push herself back to the ship. As the daughter of the most powerful Jedi the star wars universe has ever known, who has lived with the knowledge that she has those abilities for the last 30 years - it's not that gigantic a leap to make that she might have been able to learn how to do this small thing. You see the little boy at the end move the broom without any training whatsoever and he's only what 5 or 6? Leia's in the vacuum of space without even gravity to thwart her, a simple nudge would be all she'd need to get her momentum going. When you get past the initial WTF? It's really not that big of a stretch. IMO.