7 Baffling Movie Moments That Left Us Scratching Our Heads

2. Star Wars €“ Revenge of the Sith

It€™s hard to know which moment to pick from across George Lucas€™ film franchise. Luke€™s remarkably quick training programme with Yoda? The lackadaisical approach Star Destroyer watchmen have to shooting down randomly ejecting escape pods during a highly important battle? For me though, the biggest baffling moment comes at the end of Episode 3 when Obi-Wan decides that Anakin€™s children must be kept away from him where he can never find them, primarily for their own safety. Where does he decide the safest place to hide Luke will be? On his evil dad€™s home planet with the family. Genius. Obi-wan could take the kid anywhere in the universe. Take him to Admiral Akbar€™s fish-man planet or something! Not back to the first place where an evil overlord with infinite resources at his fingertips would try. Which begs the question€.why didn€™t Vader look for Luke? They didn€™t even change his surname for Christ€™s sake. If you€™re Vader, just give your stepbrother Owen a ring, he€™s not going to screen a call from a dark lord now is he? €œOwen, its Anakin, be honest, have you got Luke there? Don€™t lie to me or I will strangle you using only my mind.€ Thinking about it though, the answer to this whole mess is actually quite simple. George Lucas is really not that good at linking his stories together and didn€™t really think everything through when he finished his new trilogy. Oh George.
 
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