10 Ridiculous Movie Premises Everybody Fell For
7. The Skywalker Kids Are Safe - Revenge Of The Sith (2005)/Star Wars (1977)
At the tail end of Revenge Of The Sith (2005), Obi-Wan Kenobi's grand plan for preserving the Jedi Order in miniature and coming back to defeat the Empire in a couple of decades is the single stupidest idea anyone has ever had. He hides both of Darth Vader's children in plain sight: Leia is adopted by an incredibly high profile royal Senator right under Palpatine's nose, while Luke lives on the desert planet that his father was born and raised on, under his actual last name, with his actual family, in the home that his father has been to, when he went and met them all.
Now, the Star Wars expanded universe tried to explain away this idiocy by claiming that Vader could never bring himself to return to Tatooine after everything that went down... that he'd never been told that his children survived, because the Emperor informed him that he killed his own wife while she was still heavily pregnant (hence the NOOOOOOOOOO! that had casual movie goers in stitches). Even if you accept this tenuous explanation it doesn't touch on why the newly crowned Emperor doesn't just have Luke and Leia killed instead. Fundamentally though, it makes no sense that the two last Jedi in all the galaxy would ever, ever think that this was a foolproof plan. After all, they already think that the Sith will be after the children - that's why theyre being hidden in the first place. It's just that Kenobi appears to have confused hiding them with not hiding them at all. It's the equivalent of protecting your house from burglars by leaving your keys in the front door.
Even Yoda taking the pair of them to Dagobah with him is a better solution, and no one thinks that babies should be raised by a muppet in a dressing gown. Alarmingly, Obi-Wan Kenobi's plan only succeeds because these movies were written by a man to whom writing did not come easily. In other words, the Skywalker children remain safe for twenty-odd years because George Lucas is bad at telling stories he's had twenty-odd years to work on.