Movie Scenes That Make No Logical Sense (Spoilers!)

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Bolty

And the one from Star Wars... would it not have made more sense if they had said don't fire the princess may be aboard. --?
They wanted her alive correct?

They specifically said "There are no lifeforms onboard. It must have short-circuited." So they know the princess isn't even on it, and they assumed that it was just a glitch.

Also, their goal was to find the Death Star plans the rebels stole (transmissions from Scarif, passed by hand on a disk). If they happened to blow up an escape pod with people (even the princess) on it, it wouldn't have mattered much because the leak would be sealed--people die, supposedly the plans are destroyed with them. The gunners (and their micro-managing boss) were so focused on stopping people from escaping that they didn't account for droids or somebody just throwing the plans in an empty pod. They probably should have just shot it down all the same, but like it's said in Under Siege, "assumption is the mother of all f**k-ups!"


EDIT:
Line's from Under Siege 2