10 Huge Star Wars Plot Holes That Everyone Overlooks

With Obi-Wan (Alec Guinness) hiding Luke on Tatooine in A New Hope, why exactly would he let him keep the surname Skywalker, while stashing him on his father's home planet with his aunt and uncle no less, immediately making it easier for any interested party to track him down?

There have been numerous suggested answers to this over the years, none of which are fully satisfying, however.

Some claim that the name Skywalker might be a lot more common in the Star Wars universe than we think, though the series' media in general seems to suggest this isn't the case.

Back in 2016, Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo acknowledged the plot hole as a fair question, while claiming that Obi-Wan's logic in hiding Luke on Tatooine was that he knew Anakin wouldn't revisit the planet given the trauma he and his family suffered there.

While Anakin admittedly didn't know that Padmé (Natalie Portman) gave birth before dying and therefore wouldn't have had any reason to look for a son, it still seems pointlessly risky not to have Luke live under a pseudonym.

Ultimately this is really because George Lucas didn't settle on Luke being Vader's son until he completed a rewrite of The Empire Strikes Back's script, which was finished almost a year after A New Hope hit cinemas.