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I hate to defend bad writing, and I hate even more when fiction feels the need to retroactively try to explain things that don't need it, but here goes anyway.
In the novel Kenobi the Tatooine locals find out his last name and immediately start wondering if he's related to any of the other Kenobis they know in the area. So they do at least give a few paragraphs to pointing out that it's a somewhat common last name.
Then there's "Skywalker," where fans say oh it's a common last name that's why no one batted an eye at it. But I just assume that Luke went by Luke Lars up until the events of ANH.
There's probably something in canon that contradicts that, and the Kenobi novel is no longer canon either, but you know what? It's all made up and I don't care, I just picture it like I want to.
The post assumes that he is even registered. Kenobi is hiding on a backwater desert planet ruled by a crime syndicate. Unless there is some detail in the movies I forgot, I think it is reasonable to assume that he might not even appear in any imperial registry.
Do you mean to imply that Kenobi might not have been paying property taxes!?!?
He was the villain all along
The real victims were the billions of people paying for Ben's free lunch
Where was Yodas social security checks being picked up?
"PO Box on Dantooine have I. Wear baseball cap and sunglasses when checking it, I do."
Give onto the Emperor what is the Emperor's...
Undeclared income is the real bane of organized crime
This makes me think about property records in Somalia over the past 30 years or so.
I love the radio dramas. I also love that George Lucas loved NPR so much that he worked with the NPR station near Skywalker Ranch to make it happen.
You had me at "Sand..." :-P
If you're hiding from Darth Vader, you should always make sure you're hiding somewhere with lots and lots of sand.
I always keep a pocket full of sand just in case the Emperor sends his favourite cyborg after me
Darth Vader never once in all those years went to have Thanksgiving Dinner with his half brother.
Think of what good for the Empire would have occured.
Bruh the moves are barely canon any more. A good explanation is a good explanation.
It leaves a bitter taste that the blockbuster Fantasy need to have writing that falls apart the moment you look slightly deeper into it (Star Wars and Harry Potter come to mind).
I mean the empire hunted down every Jedi, you'd think they could hunt down every Skywalker and every Kenobi as well
So, the storyline on "every last Jedi" gets soft around the edges with all the EU material. Because everyone wants to write a book or do a game or whatever about "the OTHER other last Jedi". And then you've got to explain Joruus C’baoth. And nobody wanted to see Ahsoka Tano die. And they resurrect Darth Maul at some point. And and and...
This means you get a bunch of hand-waving explanations for why this or that professionally trained force user doesn't fall under Yoda's strict categorization of "Jedi", at the moment he says the thing to Luke Skywalker in the Third Movie. And, along the way, it carves out a bunch of caveats and exceptions for why Darth Vader didn't quite get them all.
Frankly, I think it's enough to say the galaxy is big and Tatooine is very remote and the Empire doesn't have a ton to fear from a Jedi survivor who kept his head down for twenty years.
That's why I choose to believe Luke went by Lars, and just sort of ignore the fact that they knew Ben's last name.
I can appreciate a little fun pointing out inconsistencies while still understanding the movies would be considerably worse if the writers spent any effort trying to prevent Lemmy inconsistency memers.
Wormie Lars.