Oh, I agree with you. Luke and Leia should not have been seen or named. In a world of good storytelling, Anakin's wife would have fled Anakin, probably with Obi-wan as her guardian, to protect her unborn child from what her husband has become (because the turn to the dark side wouldn't happen in five minutes), and the birth of the twins would happen off-screen, or better yet, between movies. The children and their fates would be unknown to the viewer until ANH. THEN, after her children have been safely hidden, she would try to confront (if at all) Anakin to win him over to the dark side, yada, yada, yada. So many wasted opportunities to weave a really deep and continuous story as opposed to a movie version of star wars theme ride.

That is what makes me laugh at all the fans who saw it 4-6, 1-3, but now say you have to watch it 1-6 because George says so. All those fans would have been pissed after ROTS if Lucas did not show Vader being built, the twins being born, and all the closure that movies gives in the sense of a backstory telling point of view. All of this stuff in there does not make sense from a 1-6 point of view.
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