Star Wars Plot Hole: Luke Skywalker's Name.

The obvious first: SPOILER WARNING! If you have not seen all Episodes of Star Wars, do not read on beyond this point!My opponent has asked the right question, and I will take my opening argument from there. I will save my rebuttal for the next round so that we have an even number of rebuttals. It is only fair.I will refer only to the movies, no expanded universe material. I have no access to the prequel episodes, the scripts my opponent presented will have to suffice, even though they differ slightly from the movies. In case I have something wrong, my opponent may freely point me to it with a source of his own.The question I'm trying to answer is: WHY?More specifically: Why would someone take great care to hide Leia in the perfect place - in plain sight, with new name, prominent parents and a bright political future, where no sane person would hide a child and nobody would come looking - and yet hide Luke on Anakin Skywalker's home world, under his name, in the care of his stepbrother and even in the home of Anakin's own mother - where anybody might ACCIDENTALLY discover the boy?Let's have a look at the facts:Anakin Skywalker, as seen in "The Phantom Menace", was a local hero on Tatooine: the only human ever to win a pod race, which is a sport that keeps the entire planet in its grip, even children. Which means its only logical that the legend of the human boy who won will have been carried over through the years.My opponent has agreed in the comments to apply human psychology to the characters in the film. If we were to assume that the characters just act inexplicably because they are aliens, this discussion would be pointless.If the characters are motivated like humans, it is not at all logical that Anakin's out-of-the-blue triumph in the pod race has been forgotten by Luke's coming of age. For example, most US denizens in our world still remember the 1980 "Miracle on Ice". That's 34 years in the past, and not likely to be forgotten any time soon. Since pod racing seems to be the only major sports event on Tatooine, it would be in the interest of the organizer - crime lord Jabba the Hutt, who's still in charge by the time of "Return of the Jedi" - to keep the hopes of all human children up to some day become a hero like Anakin. This ensures paying audience and serves a great distraction from the dire life on Tatooine my opponent described. It's like the Roman motto "panem et circenses" (bread and games) to keep the public entertained so that they will serve better.There is no internal logic explaining why there are no trading cards, documentaries or something like that to celebrate local underdog hero Anakin Skywalker. Even if not officially endorsed by Jabba (Anakin was a slave, after all), he would still be the secret hero of all slaves. The only event on Tatooine that could have ended slavery would have been the Empire's invasion, which must have taken place shortly before "A New Hope", since Luke has explicitly stated that he remembers days on Tatooine before the Empire, and the Senate which opposed the worst transgressions of the Emperor is disbanded well into that film.So, let it be a few years. We have no evidence of pod racing in "A New Hope", so let's say it was banned by the Empire - for whatever reasons - and slavery abolished. It is only logical that children would start soapbox racing, or have pod racer toys. Luke is playing with a toy spaceship in "A New Hope". So, the legend would still continue, much like children still play cowboys and Indians all over our world, 90 years after the end of the American Indian Wars in 1924.Anakin Skywalker would thus be a household name by any internal logic. And even if the Lars family were to forbid Luke access to pod racing toys, Luke has many friends who come from more liberal families who allow those to attend the Academy. They would have played with Luke, and would have been thrilled to tell him he shares the name of a legend.Now let us leave Darth Vader out of the picture for the moment.Let us focus on Owen Lars.Luke's uncle is not intent to hide Luke from his father whom he believes dead for all we can tell - at least there is no indication that Owen and Beru know what became of Anakin, since Beru FONDLY remembers Anakin, SMILINGLY comparing Luke to him in "A New Hope". If either knew of Darth Vader, they would react differently, most likely abhorred.Owen Lars is ACTUALLY trying to hide Anakin Skywalker from Luke, not the other way 'round.I'll refer to dialogue from "A New Hope" for evidence, corroborated by the script my opponent linked to: LUKE: No, my father didn't fight in the wars. He was a navigator on aspice freighter.BEN: That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with yourfather's ideals. Thought he should have stayed here and not gotteninvolved.[...]BEN: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to havethis when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. Hefeared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damned-fool idealisticcrusade like your father did.( http://www.scenebyscene.net... )So, this is where my opponent errs in his conclusions. Yes, Kenobi is trying to hide Luke from Vader. He took him to a desolate place where Luke would have the love of a family. All that can be explained, even though there is a risk that Vader would one day want to erase all traces of who he was. Vader cannot know that his brother Owen does not know who he is. And then he'd come to Tatooine and find Luke without ever looking for him.Even worse: Kenobi is basically still on the run from the Empire, and he's living under his real name, too. NOBODY would fall for this slight change of a first name. Even Luke quickly figured out where to turn. And Kenobi's hideout was apparently known on Alderaan, since Leia knew EXACTLY where to turn for help. Surely, eventually some servant would have sold that information to the Empire, had the planet not been blown to bits.Kenobi is not well-hidden, and thus actually endangers the boy he is trying to protect.But if Owen Lars had some reason not to change Luke's name, Kenobi would not have had any way of changing that. He should have changed his, but that's another plot hole.Here, we need to find a reason why Owen Lars as Luke's legal guardian didn't change Luke's name.The problem is not with Luke being discovered by Darth Vader, Owen Lars tries to protect Luke from getting involved with the civil war.And if we take that into account, Luke's name makes no sense at all.Why - if Owen wants to keep Luke's father a secret - does he not claim to be Luke's father? Why not name the boy Luke Lars and tell him that crazy Ben in the desert will some day come and claim he was another man's son, thus insulting his mother Beru as an adulteress, and Luke should not listen to the guy?What reason could Owen have to point Luke in the direction that his father was a pod racing hero - since I established that for Luke, who's playing with space ship toys and bragging about his pilot skills, there's no reasonable way he wouldn't know of the legendary Anakin Skywalker - if Owen desperately wants Luke to be a farmer and stay out of trouble?It totally contradicts the story, if Owen is also told by Kenobi that the boy needs to be hidden from the Empire.It can also not be that he wants to honor his stepbrother. Because if it was about that, he would surely tell Luke that his father was a hero, but kept the name secret, not the other way 'round.So what we have is this:One child was hidden perfectly, given a new identity.The other child, however, is hidden on a planet where Vader might come looking for his stepbrother, to eliminate the last witnesses of who he once was - this would only be logical, since Vader is very conflicted about his actions (killing children) at the end of "Revenge of the Sith" and we have seen him kill a whole tribe of Tusken raiders in "The Clone Wars" in a fit of rage and revenge. There's also little reason to believe he would not some day come and take revenge on Watto and Jabba the Hutt for the slavery that cost him his beloved mother.In any case, hiding Luke on a planet with personal ties to Darth Vader is a certain risk. And indeed, Luke does get involved because of R2D2 landing on Tatooine and Vader giving chase. So, this risk is REAL and EVIDENT, not some weird conjecture. It happened, after all.And we have an uncle who doesn't want Luke to discover who his father was, yet has him bear the same surname, on a planet where his father must be a legend of sorts.There is no logical reason to assume that either Kenobi or Owen Lars would ever take such risks in their respective goals.Now, in the comments, I said that this kind of disregard becomes a plot hole if it could have been fixed, but wasn't.How could it have been fixed?Anakin's surname could have been anything but Skywalker. That would have solved most plot problems.Owen and Beru would believe Anakin dead, because Kenobi must have lied to them as he lied to Luke (see above). They honor his existence by telling Luke he had a father named Anakin Skywalker, who was a decent man, while the real father was for instance called "Starkiller" (as in the very first script draft), who happens to be a local hero.If Owen doesn't know Vader is his brother, he would see no reason to relocate, assuming that the Empire won't come looking in the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim.And Kenobi - well, he would know that there is a certain risk involved, but couldn't possibly tell Owen and Beru to move, because what reason should the Empire have to look on Tatooine? He would have to come clean, and that he doesn't want. So he has no choice but to stay and hope to be able to protect the boy, should the Empire ever come looking. After Owen changed the name of the boy, Kenobi would have to admit that this is enough to keep the boy out of trouble. Just to protect his story.It is thus evident that the name and location of Luke Skywalker are a plot hole.