From the Book

From STAR WARS - George Lucas Copyright 1976

'But my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was no knight - just a navigator on a space freighter.' Kenobi's smile enfolded the pipe's mouthpiece. 'Or so your uncle has told you.' His attention was suddenly focused elsewhere. 'Owen Lars didn't agree with your father's ideas, opinions, or with his philosophy of life. He believed that your father should have stayed here on Tatooine and not gotten involved in...' Again the seemingly indifferent shrug. 'Well, he thought he should have remained here and minded his farming.'

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'How,' he asked slowly, 'did my father die?' Kenobi hesitated, and Luke sensed that the old man had no wish to talk about this particular matter. Unlike Owen Lars, however, Kenobi was unable to take refuge in a comfortable lie. 'He was betrayed and murdered,' Kenobi declared solemnly, 'by a very young Jedi named Darth Vader.' He was not looking at Luke. 'A boy I was training. One of my brightest disciples...one of my greatest failures.' Kenobi resumed his pacing. 'Vader used the training I gave him and the force within him for evil, to help the later corrupt Emperors. With the Jedi knights disbanded, diorganized, or dead, there were few to oppose Vader. Today they are all but extinct. An indecipherable expression crossed Kenobi's face. 'In many ways they were too good, too trusting for their own health. They put too much trust in the stability of the Republic, failing to realize that while the body might be sound, the head was growing diseased and feeble, leaving it open to manipulation by such as the Emperor.

I appreciate it.

Trust me, that novel is pretty threadbare at this point. I bought it in about 1977 or 78 as a pretty young kid and read it a number of times, let me tell you.

We already know it's not litterial true. But I do beleive we will see Anakin back on Tatoonie for a bit. At the very least to establihs more of a relationish with the Lars, thus make leaving Luke with them alittle more crediable. Acoring to theforce.net there were a few scene with the Lars cut from the film.

I'm thinking, someone finds out about the secrete marrage. Anakin is thrown out of the Jedi. The current Queen of Naboo revocs Padme's senator-ship and invites her to not return anytime soon. So they go to Tatoonie for a while. Owens father is dead, and he and Beru have gotten married. Obi-Wan (who was the only person to stick up for Anakin when he was being thrown out of the Jedi) comes to Anakin to ask for his help. Anakin goes with Obi-Wan leaving Padme with the Lars. Owen does like the idea at all.

Bring in a new character for the Vader decoy in the 3rd chapter would be kinda cheap.

I'm beging to think Lucas should have made ANH ep 7, and spead this big complicated plot out into more bite size peices. If you ad all the filmed scenes they cut, this film would be near 3 hours long; which means it could be cut into 2 features.

I don't think we are going to see Tattooine again until ANH, except for last one shot. When the cast and crew were shooting AOTC, Lucas took a mysterious shot on location and won't tell anyone what it is, and apparently he did it to save going all the way back to Tunisia again.