Lucas should have given Obi-wan a robot leg in the ANH Special Edition in 1997 so that people would have speculated endlessly over the next 8 years about when during the prequels he lost it, then never have him sustain this injury, making it clear that it just happened sometime later and had no bearing on the plot.
And he could have made it C-3PO’s missing gold right leg.
Well see now that’s almost interesting, so it would have never happened.
Do we have any sort of official statement from anyone at Lucasfilm as to WHY this ronto was added to this specific shot? It really does not make sense. The shot was populated enough as it was, right George? Did he not like the white R2 unit? Why not recolor it instead? I just don’t get it. sigh