Doesn't fit the story of Episode IV

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2005)

After watching Revenge of the Sith I went home and watched Episode IV again.
It's unbelievable the same director did both movies. The old Episode IV also starts with a kind of battle, but after impressing the audience with visual and acoustic effects it slows down and uses a much slower pace to tell a story. The character Luke is introduced, Luke meets the two droids and after some short action we meet Ben Kenobi. Ben then is using the same pace to tell his story. This art of storytelling is missing completely from the new movies!
And the story told in Episode IV doesn't fit to what we see in the three new movies, let's see:
### Ben Kenobi
Ben Kenobi tells Luke that he stopped using the name Obi-Wan Kenobi before the birth of Luke. Episode III tells otherwise, if Obi-Wan is changing his name it happens after the birth of Luke and Leia - Mistake!
### Your father's light saber
Ben opens a box and gives a light saber to Luke. He tells Luke that it is the light saber of his father and that Luke's father asked Obi-Wan/Ben to give it to Luke (when he is old enough or ready for it). This is not only missing from Episode III, it is most unlikely that it happens the way Episode III tells the story. Anakin never told Obi-Wan he will be father (it was against the Jedi-Codex, remember) and they only meet once after Obi-Wan knows who the father of Padme's children is - after the fight Obi-Wan leaves and thinks Anakin is dying and I'm not even sure he is picking up the light saber at all. Again Episode III is telling the wrong story or the 'new concept' of George is that Ben was lying to Luke (is a Jedi allowed to do that?).
# I owned a droid?
When Luke tells to Ben that the small droid is looking for its old master Obi-Wan Kenobi he tells that he cannot remember having owned a droid. I guess if everything really happened like suggested in Episode I-III he would remember that extraordinary droid!
# The babies
At the end of Episode III Luke and Leia are born, so Episode IV must take place approx. 20 years after Episode III. But that doesn't fit for many reasons.
Remember when Obi-Wan finally meets Darth Vader in Episode IV on the Death Star - Darth Vader is quite surprised that the 'old man' still lives. Being a Jedi his lifespan should be longer than that of a normal man, so why should he be dead already? May be because he was already an old man twenty years ago, when Luke was born? Now look at Episode III, Obi-Wan doesn't look a man with a lifespan of less than 20 years. Also some other characters originally in Episode IV look much older than they should be if they aged only 20 years (Luke's aunt and uncle).
And a last minor 'mistake':
# Death Star
At the end of Episode III we see that the construction works on the first Death Star already started. So it took twenty years to build the first one (which is for the first time operational in Episode IV) ? They have been much faster building the second one (for Episode VI). Like the droids the Death Star is an allusion to Episode IV-VI that badly fits.