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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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10-Sep-2009, 1:50 AM
Darth Venal said:

Well what continuity issues with regards to the PT are you referring to in Jedi?

The most notable one is probably Leia remembering her birth mother.  I’ve seen it suggested by some apologists that Leia didn’t know she was adopted, so she misunderstood the question and responded with an irrelevant description of Bail Organa’s wife, who happened to have some traits in common with Leia’s birth mother.  This explanation moves it from the category of “continuity error” to “pointless waste of time,” and I don’t think that’s an improvement.  In my mind this remains a continuity error.  I haven’t given much thought to how it could best be corrected.

Another continuity error in my opinion is when Ben says that Luke was hidden from Vader.  This may have raised an eyebrow in ’83.  (If they’re trying to hide him, why keep the same last name?)  But when the PT came out, we learned that Uncle Owen was Anakin’s stepbrother, and apparently living in the same place that Anakin knew.  With that information, the idea that Luke was placed there to hide him from Vader becomes particularly hard to believe.  (My own ideas of how to handle the hows and wherefores of Luke’s upbringing are here.  I haven’t given much thought to how ROTJ can be altered to be consistent with those ideas, and don’t know whether the wider world of SW fandom would even like those ideas.)

ROTJ has much bigger problems than these continuity errors, but I still thought them worth mentioning.