Star Wars Plot Hole: Luke Skywalker's Name.

Well, this is it. My final round on this site. I thank my opponent for his effort in spite of his dire circumstances right now, fighting tornados. I wish him all the best.My opponent is wrong on all counts.Tatooine:My opponent bends the way information flows to that planet to his will. At one time, the planet is totally remote and removed from any outward influence, then suddenly the Hutts are important as relation to the Empire. This changes arbitraily just as he needs it to.Just as suddenly the civil wars made any difference on this remote planet without strategic value and without notable presence of the Empire or the Republic. My opponent keeps turning theimportance and connectedness of Tatooine around just as he goes along.If the planet is remote, than the civil wars have passed it without a lot of commotion. Yet my opponent claims tha suddenly, the civil wars had people distracted from local hero Anakin.Correct is this: Anakin was a local hero. The civil war came, but nobody really was affected, especially since Tatooine was never really part of EITHER the Republic OR the Empire. Anakin was thus not likely forgotten, while slavery endured. The slave who won the great race would have become more and more of a legend, as these things usually go, with Kitster living to tell the tale.My opponent now introduces "taxes" as a concept. Slaves don't pay taxes.The Empire was most certainly not disliked by the slaves, because if the Empire arrived, there was a chance slavery would finally be abolished.Fallible characters:Yes, characters in Star Wars are fallible. But mistakes can be corrected. Time may have been crucial in the first moments, and it was wise to meve Luke. But still my opponent does not explain why Owen Lars made the same mistake. He was not under pressure, and was intent to never let his nephew know his origins. Yet he did nothing much to aid this cause, by letting Luke keep his infamous family name.Luke was bound to some day find out the truth - and he did. And Owen did nothing to prevent it effectively. Logic would have it he adopted Luke and called him Luke Lars. Then Lunke would never have known, Kenobi would not have had any way of ever approaching the boy. That would have been what Owen wanted, considering his fears that Luke would follow his father's footsteps, as he confided to his beloved wife when they were both alone. We must assume this to be the truth, for why would he lie to his wife who was in on the whole conspiracy. Why tell Luke that he had another father by the name of Skywalker?Again, the definition we agreed upon was that something is a plot hole if it could have been addressed but wasn't. And that is the case here. Calling Luke "Skywalker" harmed Owen's agenda, and was never addressed or resolved. It is a plot hole not explicable withing the film."Shaft" Kenobi:My opponent does not stop his conjuring up new ideas DEFINITELY NOT IN THE FILM. Where does Kenobi ever have Aliases in "A New Hope" on Tatooine? He's just cazy old hermit Ben in the desert.No way he could have heard about Vader on this remote, unimportant planet. And if he had, I say he would have gone to finish his mission given to him by Yode well before "Bring the child to Tatooine".I refer to the end of "Revenge of the Sith": Obi-Wan VOLUNTEERS to watch over Luke, Yoda only orders him to take the child to his family.But Kenobi was under strict orders to kill Anakin. Had he actually heard of Vader being alive, he would have sought contact with the Rebel alliance or the remeining Jedi. Instead, he allowed Vader to hunt them all? Not logical.How would Stormtroopers have Kenobi worried while he was still young? In "A New Hope" all stormtroopers are wise enough to not interfere in the battle between Vader and Kenobi. He's a Jedi who blasted dozens of battledroids while still in his prime.The only thing that makes sense is this: The new trilogy just doesn't fit with the original one.Yoda tested Luke:Nonsense. It was Kenobi's spirit who finally convinced Yoda to take Luke under his wing. Had Yoda known of Luke, he would have trained him without any need of Kenobi's interference. Yoda was done testing Luke after the "crazy hermit" routine.Kenobi training Luke:The fact remains that Kenobi just sat there doing nothing, while Luke was the galaxy's "only hope". That's awfully inactive for someone intent to save the galaxy and stop Vader and the Emperor.The mistake: Again, it was a hasty decision nobody laer cared to correct for NO REASON EVER ADDRESSED in the films, which makes it a plot hole."There is no reason to think that the name would bring suspicion."Aside from Anakin being a local hero and my opponent insisting tha Owen knows who Darth Vader is - No, Owen Lars, the farmer who wants to be left alone, would never take the risk. He's a simple man, after all. He doesn't care about Emperors and the Empire. He's ony concerned about the well-being of Luke. And allows him to bear the name of a local sports hero while telling him his father was a pilot on a spice freighter. It makes no sense at all."My opponent keeps saying that pod racing is the only sport on the planent. We don't know that."My opponent agreed up front to stick to what is in the movies. This is the one event everybody is talking about in "Phantom Menace" on Tatooine.No oher sport is ever mentioned. Luke is so bored that he goes out hunting giant rats in his little glider. There is no sport on this planet."that doesn't mean that he is a hero to all slaves"I showed above that Kitster begs to differ: "There are so many of us who want you to stay, Annie... You're a hero.""Us" obviously being the slaves, because Kitster as a slave boy doesn't know a lot of other people.Again: what is in the movies is our only proof. This is right there.The slave community would keep the name revered for all eternity. But slavery seems to have mostly gone by "A New Hope", and thus the name would spread.And again, we're talking about the ONLY HUMAN to ever win a sport that is practiced on several worlds (Qui-Gon mentioning it exists on Malastare, too).He would not have been forgotten.Vader:My opponent insists that Owen knows of Anakin being Vader. All the more reason to make the child a Lars and remove him from that family's curse.As was done with Leia.It does not matter what Kenobi wanted for Luke's name. Owen HATES Kenobi and wishes him dead in "A New Hope". He is Luke's legal guardian, he decides the name. My opponent wishes to distract from this, but it remains a fact: Owen Lars has virtually NO reason not to rename Luke, and good reason to do so.He DOES NOT, and THAT is the plot hole this whole debate narrows down to.Kenobi has no say in this."Told them that it was a condition of adopting him"That is NOT in the film. Kenobi was under orders to hand the child over. It was ot his place to put any conditions on this. The boy was to be given to HIS loving family.If Kenobi would go against that direct order, my opponent can no longer claim he would not have gone after Vader because he had orders."Vader no longer goes by the name Skywalker."And yet it is a fact that Luke eventually found out. So, there is no claiming that this would have been unrealistic. It ahppened, after all. In the movies."Kenobi wasn't going against Vader."Kenobi knew full well he was going against Vader the moment he saw Leia's holographig message. Why else would he take Luke and train him in the ways of the Force? Why would he tell Luke all these lies? I was thus not referring to the events on the Death Star. I was referring to Kenobi leaving Tatooine to interfere with the civil war once more. He must have known this would eventually pit him against Vader.My opponent states himself: "He was trying to do two things there: 1. To give Luke an immediate reason to want to destroy Vader."So, was he going against Vader or NOT?My opponent constantly contradicts himself, just like the new trilogy contradicts the original one on this whole affair."Palpatine's new book, "How To Grow Amputated Limbs Through The Dark Side.""Funny, but not in the film. It is obvious my opponent is just reaching now, trying to distract from the matter at hand with silly jokes.Owen is a step brother to Vader. A reminder of his past. All those need to be eliminated because obviously, the name "Anakin Skywalker" means soething to Vader, and all who knew him must therefor die, because the name alone reminds him of the heinous deeds he's committed, including first and foremost the alleged killing of his wife. Who was known to Owen. Vader would not let anyone live who knew he was married to Padme, because that would be a connection to a past he desperately wants to be gone.Watto was the one to enslave Shmi and wouldn't let her go with Anakin. Had Watto freed her, she would have been safe. He didn't let her go, on a technicality. Vader has more than enough reason to kill the guy.Final AnalysisSo, what it all comes down to is this, the way my opponent would have it:Luke was brought to Tatooine and given to Owen, who was told that Anakin had become evil and was on a killing spree, having also basically killed Padme through his change of heart, before he was stopped.My opponent wants the information that Vader survived accessible on Tatooine, which must have been a few months after the events of "Revenge of the Sith", as Vader continued to hunt the Jedi to extermination.And yet for some reason, farmer Owen Lars, upon learning that Anakin, who has killed all the Jedi children, decides not to rename infant Luke?Even if we leave Anakin's fame on Tatooine out of the picture, this makes no sense, and it is never explained in the movies.Making the name "Luke Skywalker" a huge plot hole.Thanks all for reading, this is my final bow.