Star Wars: 3 major inconsistencies in the saga

hiding places

At the end of Revenge of the Sith, Episode III of the Star Wars saga, Obi-Wan decides to hide the newborn Luke and Leia on two different planets so that their father Darth Vader will never find them. In principle, the Jedi Master’s strategy seems coherent, but in practice it has a major flaw: Obi-Wan’s chosen hideout.

For one thing, Leia was sent to Alderaan and adopted by the planet’s viceroy, Bail Organa. It’s hard to be less cautious than that.

As for Luke, he was simply taken by his own family to his father’s home planet, whose surname he still bears (Skywalker). In short, he literally grew up in a place that Vader would have searched for first had he ever heard of him.

A little deja vu?

In Episode V of The Empire Strikes Back saga, Darth Vader traps Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 on Bespin and uses Lando Calrissian to imprison them.

A little later, when the Sith Lord freezes Han Solo to hand over to Jabba the Hutt, he doesn’t seem to recognize C-3PO at all, who, however, is present at the scene. However, it was Vader himself (as a child, when he was still called Anakin Skywalker) who developed the protocol droid from scratch.

Given his high Force sensitivity and clairvoyance, it’s highly unlikely that he didn’t recognize her. That being said, since he’s been busy with Tyrant of the Galaxy, maybe he has other fish to fry.

Javanese language

As stated several times during the saga, C-3PO (him again) was programmed to understand and speak 6 million forms of communication. A talent that is very useful for him to talk to his friend R2-D2, but also to infiltrate Jabba’s palace as an official translator in Return of the Jedi.

However, in the beginningnew hopeIn Episode IV of the saga, when the two droids are captured by a tribe of Javanese, C-3PO doesn’t seem to understand a word of what the scrap dealers are saying. Amazing, especially considering the droid was created on the same planet as them.