Mrebo said:

Promus said:

So wait...are you saying that Obi-Wan and Owen should be linked somehow, instead of Anakin and Owen?

"Originally" (in the novelization) Obi Wan and Owen were brothers.

Whether they're brothers or not- I don't care.

But if you're going to hide a kid from a friend, or from friends of a friend? Do you take that kid to that friend's family (or friends), or do you take him to someone you know you can trust, who knows of the friend and the danger of the kid being found, but has no direct ties to the friend?

Probably due to the novelization, but also due to this logic- I never expected Owen to be his actual uncle. Within the scope of the original Star Wars, where Vader and Anakin weren't the same guy, Owen was probably Luke's biological Uncle.... But I think since the "I am your father!" reveal, you can't consider him the real uncle any more. I'm not sure if the stuff in the RotJ novel was also in the Kasdan screenplay- and just cut from the film for time/flow... but whoever wrote it was obviously trying to save the whole "how could Owen have been his real Uncle?" problem.

At any rate- no Owen in the PT means you don't have to explain any of this and people can continue to assume whatever they want to assume... The pre-PT 'canon' of Owen being Obi-Wan's brother... or the pre-ESB/post-PT 'canon' of Owen being Anakin's brother.

Hmm.... OB1... O1... is there a clue in there somewhere? Maybe they were brothers in the... serial number... sense of the word.