— SPOILERS lie ahead for The Last Jedi —

As tremendously well-made as The Last Jedi is, the latest Star Wars film does feature a few plot holes. Not that they take away from the overall experience in any significant way. For all intents and purposes, The Last Jedi is pretty fantastic . In the eyes of reviewers, anyway. Many critics are actually calling it the franchise’s best entry since The Empire Strikes Back debuted way back in 1980.

But while the movie’s box office take reflects the critical consensus, the fans are far more divided. The Last Jedi is currently sporting the lowest Rotten Tomatoes audience rating in the franchise’s history. (That’s right, even lower than the prequels.) A sizable chunk of the fanbase doesn’t just dislike the film — they outright hate it. A fan petition to have Rian Johnson’s film stricken from Star Wars canon has even popped up. Many of TLJ’s detractors were quick to point to the number of plot holes they felt it contained. As we attempted to pick through the film in search of those supposed plot holes, however, we found that many of the most talked about controversies weren’t all they were cracked up to be.

For instance, more than a few fans pointed to the bombing in the film’s opening battle as a plot hole. How can that happen without gravity? This was actually explained in Pablo Hidalgo’s The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary, which you can check out here . (Also, there is gravity in space. Just, you know, not that much.) Other folks couldn’t understand how Kylo didn’t realize that he was facing a Force projection of Luke in their final act showdown. Well, Force senses aren’t always crystal clear (see: the demise of Snoke ). Also, Kylo Ren was as caught up in the heat of the moment as the rest of us.

How many fans honestly picked up on the fact that Luke wasn’t leaving behind footprints? Still others weren’t thrilled about the First Order’s sudden ability to track in hyperspace. (We’ll just leave this right here.) In short, many of the film’s perceived plot holes are either explainable or not actually plot holes at all. The few we came up with are certainly up for debate, so feel free to take to the comments and argue for or against our take on The

Last Jedi’s 5 Biggest Plot Holes.

5. That damn map

Kicking things off is a bothersome storytelling device that actually originated in The Force Awakens. Simply put, the map that ultimately leads Rey to find Luke Skywalker shouldn’t exist. So why does this plot hole fall on The Last Jedi? Because the only rational explanation for the map’s existence (Luke left it behind in case of an emergency) is disproven in TLJ. There’s no explanation for its existence inthe previous film, and any hope that Luke created it himself is slowly but surely buried by the Jedi Master’s own words on Ahch-To. “How did you find me?” “You think that I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all?” “I came to this island to die.” This really doesn’t sound like a guy that left a map behind so that he could be found one day. And with that, the new trilogy’s biggest head-scratcher is solidified as an inexplicable plot device.

4. How is this a need-to-know situation?

Admittedly, this one toes the line between a poor character decision and an outright plot hole. We’re talking of course about Admiral Holdo’s decision to keep Poe Dameron in the dark regarding her plan to escape the First Order fleet. Right out of the gate, Holdo, who’s taken over for the incapacitated Leia, is unimpressed by Poe. (She’s just witnessed his in-battle decision that ultimately decimated the Rebel fleet, so he’s not exactly on a hot streak.) Holdo is dismissive of Poe’s efforts to involve himself in her plans, believing him to be too impulsive to be of any real use. Perhaps she was worried about the plan being leaked to the First Order.

Maybe she really didn’t trust Poe. Perhaps she simply didn’t feel like dealing with him when he inevitably disagreed with her. Regardless of her rationale, she elects to play things close to the vest, believing this to be a need-to-know gameplan. Except he did need to know. After the bridge explosion that killed Admiral Ackbar (RIP) and nearly took out Leia, the Resistance is short on leadership. Poe is a Rebel hero, not to mention the fact that he’s far and away their best pilot. It would probably be wise to get him prepped to fly some folks to safety.

Instead, Holdo chooses to leave him out of the loop, so Poe sets in motion a plan that ends up getting hundreds more Rebels killed. Whoops. Again, some may simply view this as flawed character decision making. Looking at the big picture, however, it really just seems like an excuse to get Finn and Rose back into the mix.3. Is General Hux just incompetent, or…

Like our last entry, General Hux’s poor decision-making while chasing after the remaining Rebel fleet can be chalked up to a character flaw rather than a plot hole. The First Order’s pursuit drives the entirety of The Last Jedi‘s non-Luke/Rey/Kylo storylines. The problem is, we just can’t seem to figure out why Hux is so willing to wait for the Resistance to run out of fuel.

The extended chase sequence at the center of TLJ is an iffy concept at best. The cruisers carrying the remains of the Rebellion are lighter and faster than the First Order’s Star Destroyers. They’re able to maintain a safe-ish distance from the Destroyers’ cannons, but they can’t outrun them either. Therefore, the First Order has no choice but to wait the Rebel scum out. They’ll be out of fuel in a matter of hours — no big deal, right?

But wait, General Hux. You have hundreds (possibly thousands) of TIE fighters and other smaller, faster vessels at your disposal. Why aren’t you sending them out to swoop around and attack the Resistance from the front? Even if they aren’t powerful enough to penetrate their shields and destroy them outright, they should at least be able to slow the Rebels down enough to get within range of your Destroyers, right? And it’s not like you guys care all that much about the casualties you’ll incur. Help from other Rebellion-friendly corners of the galaxy could have always arrived before the fuel gauge hit empty.

Hux’s shortsighted overconfidence allowed the Resistance to once again slip through the First Order’s grasp. It’s almost as if he were dragging the chase out because the movie needed him to. Hmm…

2. The tangible/intangible gold dice

The mysterious golden dice have become a significant talking point coming out of The Last Jedi. Having gone largely unnoticed during the original trilogy, they’re the playing dice that Han Solo once used to win himself the Millennium Falcon. After Luke Skywalker snatched up the memento from his past, you proba

The confusion arises when Luke sends out a Force projection to save the remaining Rebels in the third act. The noticeably younger Luke sits down for a brief chat with Leia, and he hands her Han’s playing dice. But wait, how is she holding a projection? Has Luke managed to give actual form to an intangible projection? Kylo Ren later picks up the dice himself, only for them to fade away in his hand. They’d managed to maintain solid form after Luke had passed away…somehow. None of it makes much sense, frankly.

1. Some of the new abilities – but only some of them

Look, if new Star Wars movies aren’t allowed to pull off previously-unseen maneuvers with the Force and in their space battles, this franchise will get old really fast. We’re definitely not here to rag on The Last Jedi for getting creative. But some of the film’s innovative moves really feel like actions that would have made more sense if they had been performed by previous characters in the franchise — both because they were more likely to know how to do it and because they’d been in situations in which they should have.

Take Holdo’s lightspeed battering ram, for example. It’s a suicide move, sure, but it’s an extremely complicated one. We’re not mathematicians, but the amount of speed Holdo needed to slice through that Star Destroyer with her comparatively pint-sized ship was probably pretty high. In order to hit that speed, she had to time the collision just right, a split second before hitting lightspeed. Unless Holdo has some crazy history as a pilot that we’re unaware of, this seems like an unreasonably tall task. And granted, the fact that it’s a suicide move partially explains why we’ve never seen it done before. Rebel pilots aren’t usually out to kill themselves in a battle. But there’s been more than enough occasions (ie multiple Death Star-centric showdowns) where this maneuver could have should have been employed. Probably by a more experienced pilot.

There’s also the small matter of Force Ghost Yoda summoning a lightning strike to destroy the Jedi Temple. We’ve never seen Force Ghosts interfere in the material world before. Why is it suddenly doable/permissible now? And why is it just Yoda? Bringing Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the rest would’ve been too much for one cameo, so it makes sense for TLJ. In-universe, however, none of this really adds up. But hey, Yoda’s awesome, so we’re actually fine with this one.

On a less significant note, Leia’s Mary Poppins moment could have come in handy for Darth Vader in Rogue One. That film’s final sequence saw an escape pod pull away from the Sith Lord just before he could get to it. If Force users can telekinetically pull themselves through space, why didn’t Vader do it to get the Death Star plans back?