Star Wars: 10 Massive Plot Holes The Prequels Stupidly Created

4. Why Did The Jedi Hide In Plain Sight?

The ending of Revenge Of The Sith is much documented for its stupidity. Between Darth Vader'€™s €˜Noooooo€™ and Padmé's unexplained death, it'€™d sometimes be easier to ambiguously end the film twenty minutes earlier. The most mocked element (Vader€™'s scream aside) is the Jedi€™'s plan to keep the children safe; one easily becomes part of a family who wanted a child anyway and the other keeps his name and goes with his family. One out of two ain't all that bad.

But while hiding Luke in more than plain sight is a little dumb, Obi-Wan'€™s (and to a lesser extent Yoda€™'s) decision to wear traditional Jedi robes when their kind is still being hunted is far from hiding. When making The Phantom Menace, Lucas made the poor decision to use what Obi-Wan wore in A New Hope as the uniform of the whole order. While it allowed a play on Jedi dress€™ iconic status for marketing purposes, it made little sense; the implication in the original trilogy was that Obi-Wan was dressed like that to blend into Tatooine, not to make it clear he was Jedi.

What€™'s even worse is that Obi-Wan'€™s reserved nature, something present to aid his hiding, was also worked in the order at large, turning these great masters into boring meditators.