If that's the working explanation, it only works because she's a Skywalker. People tend to not remember their birth--for a very good reason.

A problem with that. The term "would have" is missing from the sentence. "Your father WANTED you to have this, when you were old enough." LFL could easily fix this, if they were to petition an author to put a similar scene (I suggested) into a novel before episode III. Though I don't know if GL would have a problem with someone else cleaning up his unintentional mess.

He can call it what he wants, but Obi-Wan is already lying like a rug at that point. From his "certain point of view," Anakin at some time or another probably would have wanted his son to have it. He said Luke's father would have wanted him to have it when he was old enough, not that he specifically did want that. I see it as a non-issue.

Leland:
Did GL approve this retcon?

Dear Leland Chee,

I tried to email this question to you, but I seem to keep getting an error message. As you probably know there are a number of inconsistencies between the PT and the CT. I've been able to eliminate all but one. In Star Wars episode IV Obi-Wan gives Luke his fathers lightsaber and says,"your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough." No where in the movies does Anakin ever say this. Is there an explanation for this, perhaps in one of the novels? Or was this a mistake by GL that really doesn't have any retconn. Other than, Obi-Wan lied? Thank you so much. If there is no explanation then, maybe Lucasfilm could petition a novelist to put this scene in a clone wars novel: Anakin: Master.
Obi-Wan: Yes Anakin
Anakin:If I had a son.....
Obi-Wan: Anakin, you know that a Jedi is forbidden from such acts.
Anakin: I know master, just saying hypothetically. Let's say if Jedi were
allowed to have such things and you had a son, and you couldn't be around for
him, like some of these refugees we just encountered, it makes me think
about it. If you were them and you had one last time to see your son, before
you died, what would you pass on to him?
Obi-Wan: If it was me, I would desire him to know the ways of the force, as I
have and I would give him my lightsaber to remember me.
Anakin: Master, if it were me, that is what I would do as well. ........Fixed! peace

Edited by: QuiWanKenJin on Aug 9, 2010 7:41 PM

I would like to see the "real" story about how the droids got lost/returned. It would be nice to bring the whole thing full circle. Unfortunately, as readers of my timeline know, I have some serious dating issues with the cartoon series, and these would have to be rectified before further tales could be told.

That's was after ROTS, though, which the Tantive IV is now said to be a CR90 during.

Query: does this mean that the Tantive IV is now a CR90 corvette from day one, since it no longer requires the 'fix' of the c20 Vanguard refit? Or does the original story of it being a CR70 first stand, just with it being refitted prior to ROTS? (Blueprints: Rebel Edition seems to imply the ship was always a CR90 now)

Thanks, Leland. That's what I thought.

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No, if it only says Alderaan, Bail would have switched at some point. Since they were all trying to lose any possible pursuers, this makes sense. Obi-Wan went to Nar Shaddaa with Luke in the Soulless One and bought passage to Tattooine, Yoda hitched a ride with an automated Polis Massan freighter and ejected an escape pod near Dagobah, Bail switched corvettes. Seems reasonable enough.

Edited by: KuatiKid on Aug 6, 2010 6:50 PM

The book only says it took Bail and Leia to Alderaan, which means the Tantive IV is in all the earlier scenes.