The Senate

One of the biggest questions of Star Wars: The Force Awakens concerns the Senate and its impotence against the First Order. As mentioned in the introduction of this list, we cannot accept the easiness with which the villains erased a planet and all of its moons, with no actual resistance.

There is a small explanation in one deleted scene, which would explain why the Senate was delayed in its actions. In the movie, Leia is introduced pretty late, after the Maz Kanata scene. However, she was intended to appear before Han and Chewie, trying to convince the Senate to take action. Obviously, this doesn’t happen – we can only assume that the Sith have already planted their spies among the Senators, which ultimately led to the destruction of Hosnian Prime.

Sure enough, this is just an assumption. However, even if this deleted scene didn’t provide a full explanation, it still showed the relationship between the Rebels, the Senate, and the First Order. Most likely, the director didn’t want to slow the pace of the first act – so this initial meeting with Leia was cut out. But was it the best choice? Will we find out if there were Sith spies in the Senate? Most likely not.