*1 I couldn’t believe that Shmi would not leave Tatooien and accompany her son Anakin. She wouldn’t know if the Jedi Council would accept him.
Both good points. The way I see this is that Jedi take kids away to train. It’s sort of an accepted thing. She gives the story “my place is here” to make it better for him but we can assume she knows the deal.
Atom-88 said:
*2 I think it will create a problem when it comes to AOTC, how would Anakin know how to find his mother, what would lead him to the Lars family and eventually to the sand people.
I tried this in the prequel redux thread to continue this idea into AOTC. The third edit on the post is the closest to where I want it right now. I’ve since smoothed the audio a little with some music from the scene but by the time I did that the thread had moved on. But you can hopefully get the gist of how those ideas from here could potentially carry over.