Darth Chronus said:
I was reading the novel for A New Hope (which was written in 1976) and Vader says that Tatooine is a 'miserable planet' - now we know why he would say this.

But again, that was retconned. When Alan Dean Foster wrote the novel entitles Star Wars he hadn't the slightest idea that one day a whiney young version of the villian he was writting that line for would turn out to have grown up there.

Darth Venal said:
EyeShotFirst:
"I live in Tennessee but I know hundreds of people from Kentucky. What's your point?"

You already know those people, which isn't the same thing as knowing the son of someone you used to know if you never met them.

I guess someone's point of view on this matter is likely to be quite different, depending on the size of the places you have lived in. I was born and partially raised in what was essentiall the outskirts of a farming community. When you are dealing with smaller populations like that, things are very different. Even in other cities or communities around the area I grew up I'd run into strangers who'd recognize me or my last name and strike up a conversation revealing that they know some of my relatives. If you are used to living in larger cities, I can see how unimaginable something like this may be.

It is not that unbelievable that the Lars and the Skywalkers would be fairly well known in the region, not just because the Lars family were moisture farmers, but also because Anakin was a young celebrity, being the galaxies only human podracer, and having won the Bonta Eve race at the age of 9. Next there was the incident with the Tusken Raiders kidnapping Shimi, and if you take the little war going on between the Tuskens and the farmers from the EP.II novelization as canon, the Lars family would have likely been well known within the moisture farming circles.

Either way, this discussion has absolutely no point, it was brought up as a humorous little pondering.