Star Wars Plot Hole: Luke Skywalker's Name.

I intended to post a spoiler alert in my first post. Thank you. I wonder if anyone reading knows who Mike Eruzione is? If not, I will touch on it later.To err is human.....or alien too perhaps. Let me start by that saying movie characters can be fallible. They can make mistakes. They can misjudge. I am not saying this in an attempt to dismiss any and all alleged plot holes. It is more to point out that it is with in the realm of possibility that characters made judgements that were no optimal.Real life people make mistakes too. Chamberlain was too soft on Hitler. Hitler didn't attack Dunkirk. The Allied wasted much time in a futile attack in the Netherlands. Chances are all of those mistakes were done after careful consideration. I mean the appropriate people would have counseled all Fellowship of the Ring style and laid out plans. But they were still mistakes.We see Yoda, Kenobi and Organa that decide the fate of the twins. Also, that is why Leia knows to find Kenobi on Tatooine. Her adopted father was there when he said the would take Luke. But we have three characters deciding the fate. Yoda had just lost to the Emperor. Organa had seen a child murdered in front of him. Kenobi thought he had killed someone that was a brother to him. Not to mention the fact that the Republic had fallen down around them and most, possibly all, the Jedi had been killed. We don't know if they have had contact with any other members of the fledgling Rebellion. And for that matter they probably wouldn't risk putting that out there in any form that could be intercepted. So these three decided. In the heat of battle. With the limited resources and connections they had at their disposal.Obviously, an optimal situation would involve both children being hid in such seclusion as it was not even remotely thought to be close to possible that they are found or they find out who they are. But these were far from optimal conditions.TatooineI do apologize. I had forgotten about Padme's line in TPM about the Republic's anti slave laws. This also adds to the fact that Tatooine was at least under the Republic, but very loosely. The following link is about Tatooine:http://starwars.wikia.com...It should be noted that some of this page is canon and some not. Tatooine dropped out of the Old Republic. Later it rejoined technically, being that it was part of the Arkanis sector. In reality the Hutts ruled the planet. When the Empire took over, the Hutts "resumed their alliance." The films do not show this. However, the film does show us some telling things. We see slavery in Jabba' s Palace. Han Solo is a smuggler sitting in the bar. A criminal with death sentences in multiple systems sitting at the bar. The cantina crowd goes back to normal quite quickly after Kenobi cuts off the criminals arm and after Solo kills Greedo. This suggest that they are accustomed to this. And just the way that Kenobi describes it in ANH suggests the lawlessness of the place. This means that the Empire presence was small and/or the presence there did not care enough to enforce law. This would make sense. I mean who would want to be stationed there. This is also evident in the films. When the storm troopers are searching for the droids they simply bypass locked doors. Surely that is not standard protocol. But they simply skip locked doors while searching for droids that contain the plans to the Death Star.The films also show Jabba seemingly getting more powerful as the films move along. He shouldn't be getting stronger if the Empire had a strong presence. So the idea still stands that Tatooine would be a place to go to disappear.Anakin the Local HeroI think that my opponent over estimates the popularity of Anakin Skywalker. Prior to TPM he had never won a race. He had never even completed a race. Remember when I asked about Mike Eruzione? That was the US player that put the hockey team up over the Russians. Sometimes we remember events, but not specifics like names. In Anakin's case this is probably much more likely. He was a slave. He wins one race. And then he disappears. It would be very easy for the every day person to forget the details of this. Especially considering what all happens immediately after this. Anakin is seemingly sold to Jinn. And immediately leaves. When someone grows up in an environment like that...it is kind of like a war situation. You never know when someone is not coming back. Shmi was kidnapped by Sand People. Luke was likewise ambushed. When Someone disappears. They just go about their lives.A bit on KenobiI know this is a separate alleged plot hole, but Ben Kenobi really doesn't sound a lot like Obi-Wan Kenobi. It is the Old Ben Kenobi that does. And he wasn't always old. Kenobi didn't choose Tatooine. He stayed there to protect Luke. Also, below is a link:http://www.fbi.gov...It is the FBI Top Ten. Notice that all members have an alias that includes their last name. And nine of the ten had aliases that included some part of their first or middle name These are the guys that the FBI thinks is top priority. It stands to reason that anyone that was outside the top ten would react much the same way. I am no psychologist, but I imagine there is something hard about letting go of one's identity. Besides that, you see that most have multiple aliases. It is possible that Kenobi had one alias for this person and one alias with that person. Keeping the name Kenobi for Luke.Hiding Luke from and Luke from Vader.I really don't see where I erred. I said that Luke seemed to have a back story to explain this origins. I think that the Aunt and Uncle are doing both. They hide Vader from Luke with the back story and it helps hide him from Vader. I see no reason they would not know. When some dude in a robe comes and hands you a kid with the last name of your step mother...it would stand to reason there would be some questions. It not for that then there would be no reason to lie to Luke about who his father was.It is quite clear that Kenobi is also performing a dual job of hiding Luke from Vader and Vader from Luke. He blatantly lies about Anakin wanting Luke to have his light saber and that Anakin was killed by Vader. He was trying to do two things there: 1. To give Luke an immediate reason to want to destroy Vader. 2. to give Luke a positive image of his father. This does two things: 1. Reinforce the first point. 2. Softens the blow of his father being Vader.What's in a name?It is much more critical that Leia has her name changed. Bail Organa was a senator. He was visible to many people. Being that he was high profile a name change was crucial. Obviously changing Luke's name would have been optimal, but they did not. I touched on earlier that it seems hard to let go of one's identity in the case of FBI most wanted lists. I would imagine that that possibly played a factor in keeping the Skywalker name. Kenobi saw Anakin as a brother. He quite possibly did not want to see his name die. Jedi FameI think that many people mistakenly think that some of the characters are much more popular in the Star Wars Universe than they really are. It stands to reason that the members of the Senate would be somewhat known. But the Jedi are really people that work behind the scenes. They are not out in the spot light. There is evidence of this in the films.In TPM the droid that meets Kenobi and Jinn tells Gunray that she believes they are Jedi knights. She didn't name them. Watto did not seem to recognize them from anyone else. Tion Medon in ROTS greets Kenobi as "Young Jedi" not by name. There are other examples, but it stands to reason that they would not have been commonly recognizable. I doubt most people could name more than two or three generals from WW2. And Jedi seem to be very behind the scene and mysterious.During the takeover of the Senate, Anakin had already been renamed Darth Vader. So there would have been some confusion among anyone that had information because of this. Couple that with the fact that he has to suit up means that it is actually very doubtful many people know Vader's true identity.Vader returning to TatooineThere is no reason to think that Vader would ever return to Tatooine. As Anakin he expressed his feelings about not liking the planet. Ad there is nothing there for him. Owen Lars was his step brother and had no connection to him. There was no reason to hate Watto. He and his mother seemed to be taken care of. And killing Jabba would have been bad for relations. Besides that he was busy hunting down and killing Jedi, helping oversee the building of the Death Star and all the other things that go with being the Emperor's right hand man. Dude can you Cliff Note that novel?Characters can and will make mistakes. And the decision to hide the twins was done in far from perfect conditions.I would also like to point out that they were hiding the children from the Emperor, not Vader. At the time they met in ROTS Kenobi thought Anakin to be dead. Lucas confirms this in the commentary.There is still no reason to think that there are any Skywalker younglings walking around anyway. In our normal lives we forget sports heroes. Anakin was far from a local hero. He won one race and then left.Tatooine is a remote planet. The Empire presence is minimal. Most criminals that use alias use some form of their name. Most have multiple aliases. It is possible that Kenobi made a decision to keep the SkywalkerJedi were most likely not famous. Skywalker had changed his name when he performed the tasks that involved the take over of the Republic. During this take over he had to don the suit. Because of this it is most likely that there were few that actually knew who Vader truly was.Vader had no reason to return to Tatooine. But once again. When the decision was made to hide the twins it was thought that Vader was dead.This is a case of the characters doing the best they could under the circumstances.