re: Why didn't they change Luke's last name?

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He went to live with his aunt and uncle but you think they were actually trying to hide him? What good would a name change have done?

Owen: This is my.... random boy living with me, luke treehugger.

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Well, since they were living on a fairly isolated homestead, and took Luke in as an infant, why not just call him their son?

I guess Owen wasn't down with that.

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They were reliant upon the fact that the empire didn’t know the babies survived to even look for them.

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Well, true enough. But all the same, it's kind of like taking in Hitler's son, in Adolf's old hometown.
You might want to change his name, just in case some mid-level governmental dude gets too bored on his desert planet and starts running a census. You'd figure a name like that would get flagged. The locals might not know anything, but gotta believe Palpatine would be interested if more Skywalkers started popping up on Tatooine, of all places...

Unless, of course, Yoda and Obi-wan planned to use the kids as bait.

It makes sense if you look at it that way. The Jedi knew that they'd have problems taking on Palpatine by himself, but paired with Vader the Emperor was unbeatable. They also knew Anakin's big wildcard was the prohibited family he had, his affair and marriage to Padme (do they ever learn he's married? I didn't think so). He's undeniably enraged at the death of Padme, but give him a decade or so to calm down, and plant his son somewhere he can be found (somewhere Vader might occasionally check back on, by his mother's grave).

If Vader finds him at 13, he might break away from Palpatine. If not, he's at least going alone, which gives Obi-wan a chance to ambush him if he doesn't turn the right way.

If Palpatine finds him at 13 and kills him, and Vader finds this out, again he might turn. In fact, odds are high he does.

Both scenarios put Vader at least going rogue within the Empire, if not turning openly against Palpatine- and that could give the Jedi the chance they need to take Palpatine out.

You view it this way, and it does make Luke's disillusionment with the Jedi (TLJ) more believable. The more he grew, the more he learned of what was planned for him, and as Yoda said, "there is another", for his sister if need and chance arose.

And lets face it, giving Luke a saber and training for a week with Yoda isn't going to get him ready to face Darth Vader in combat. It IS, however, going to make Luke completely visible to Vader, which turned out to have the desired effect.

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You'd figure a name like that would get flagged. The locals might not know anything, but gotta believe Palpatine would be interested if more Skywalkers started popping up on Tatooine, of all places.

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One consistent thing in the original trilogy and prequels is that Tatoine is outside the Republic/Empire so there’s no reason for the “locals” to have a negative connotation with the Skywalker name or for the Empire to notice

As others have said, the big storyline wasn't made until ESB so I'm not bothered by that.

But the prequels should have addressed these obvious questions.

Alot of terrible brainwork in this thread. Will try to fix all the suck.
1. Anakin grewup a slave on Tatooine and besides winning a race that alot of criminals and lowlifes cared about nobody gave a shite.
2. Anakins mom died. He has no family left on Tatooine. Lars and his ho are in no way related to Luke. Maybe step uncle in a very remote way. But if a man had your grandma as a slave then married her only to see sandpeople steal her and kill her, you probably dont want to claim that guy and his turd son as family. Also the old guy in the wheelchair was a #metoo level pervert. Boning his own slaves. The whole situation was not cool.

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For the Empire, no. For Palpatine personally, it's definitely within reason. He has manipulated and played Anakin to make him become Vader. He knows protection and vengeance for family is Anakin's primary motivation for all of his actions. He knows Anakin's past and his family.

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It wouldn't be a big shocker to have someone keep an eye on whatever ties there are left, even if Vader no longer seems to care.

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Frankly, it's a bit surprising that Palpatine didn't have the Lars killed off years before, to remove that potential distraction.

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I disagree, unless we assume Palpatine did a through back ground check, why would he even know about Lars or Owen? Anakin didnt really know them. He met them once as far as we know. The Emperor knows his motivation to save Padme and maybe that it was driven by his inability to save his mother but there is no reason for him to have a desire to protect his step dad and step brother

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C3PO was not finished by Anakin. They bought and covered him with the common droid body exterior. R2 was standard droid. Both could hide in plainview. Also if they had standard maintenance memory wipes like they should have, droids dont have memories or information that make them a cause of concern.

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It’s not that the droids would remember but you’d think someone would remember if he built robot especially if it has the same name he gave it and why would a little kid call it 3PO and not Ralph or something

That whole plot line is beyond stupid

THEY LEFT HIM ON ANAKINS HOME PLANET WITH PEOPLE KNOWN TO ANAKIN.


AND YOU THINK HIS NAME IS THE NOTABLE SECURITY ISSUE?

Yes. All they had to do was change his last name to Lars. I get that Anakin wanted nothing to do with Tatooine, but take saving some precautions.

But as someone said before, SW was probably a stand alone film until it became huge.

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