9. Obi-Wan Chooses To Hide Baby Luke With The Skywalkers - Revenge Of The Sith
Picture the scene. Your order is completely destroyed, with only a fragment of the thousands of Jedi left alive. You've just came back from chopping up your best mate/pupil to bits and burning him in a lava lake and found out that his secret wife has kicked the bucket after giving birth to two children. Naturally, you want to hide these children as the dark evil people are still rounding up Jedi and everyone else associated with them. Leia is taken away to a secret place where she'll clearly be hard to find, but Obi-Wan, in his infinite wisdom, decides to take Luke to live with his relatives on Tatooine. Er, hello Obi-Wan? These guys have the name Skywalker! Surely that makes it incredibly easy to find Luke? Can't be a common name, surely. Somehow this does play out just like Obi-Wan wanted, but this is mainly down to having a major ludicrous plot hole in between Revenge Of The Sith and A New Hope where Darth Vader and co completely fail at finding the last of the Jedi order.
8. Obi-Wan Gets Cryptic With The Truth - A New Hope
As Luke starts to get to grips with everything that's happening around him with revelations flying from all angles, Obi-Wan decides to withhold the truth about Luke's dear old dad from him, ultimately setting up Luke for a hell of a shocker when Vader reveals he's his father in Empire. The reason he does this is all metaphorical - when he said that Darth Vader killed Luke's father, he is referring to the fact that Vader (Anakin's dark side) basically killed Anakin Skywalker (his good side). It'd be a damn sight simpler if he just told the truth from the start and probably wouldn't have led to the massive despair Luke felt when he found out straight from the wheezy mouth of Vader. It's all a bit cryptic and ultimately a bit unnecessary. But such is the way of the Jedi - if they're not speaking in riddles, they're simply not happy.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
