Bingowings said:

One problem I had with the Shmi thing is it really makes the Jedi out to be utter gits to just abandon the mother of their chosen one to a continued life of slavery.

I get that a Jedi has to limit his attachments to the material world and Tatooine is beyond the borders of the Republic but they would have made some arrangement to purchase her freedom, pension Shmi off and have her protected to some degree.

So instead of having Watto say he sold her to some bloke who took advantage of her gratitude and married her for a while before losing her to the Apach... Tusken Raiders why not have her taken in by another native Jedi's family?

Someone who knows what to expect when they lose a child to the temple.

Perhaps Ben's dad or the father of (and I know some of you aren't going to like this) Ben's other pupil's family.

This would explain the bad chemistry between Owen Lars and Ben Kenobi if he was his brother or the teacher of his brother who ran off and joined old Ben on some damn fool idealistic crusade.

Although that has absolutely nothing to do with what I just said, it does interest me greatly. But how would you pull it off with current footage?