Lucas famously make things up as he went, and retconned many things along the way.
Originally Luke’s sister was a yet to be introduced character, not Leia. The film titled “Star Wars” was retroactively changed to become Episode 4. Han Solo was frozen at the end of one of the films because he wasn’t sure if Harrison Ford would be back. They even changed the voice of Vader in post production, and the original actor found out when he watched the premiere. If you watch the prequels and original trilogy back to back there are glaring potholes. You can’t even officially get the original versions of the movies because Lucas doesn’t want them to be available.
Here’s just one breakdown I’ve found by googling. Some of these can be justified by making up theories of characters lying or making mistakes, others are clearly for the fact that they forgot details from the OT while they were writing the PT and contradicted themselves.
Potholes aside, my favourite dumb thing is that in the OT Obi-Wan was wearing farmers clothes to blend in, you can see uncle Owen wearing matching clothes. But the in PT that’s apparently the Jedi uniform. Not very smart to hide out in Tatooine wearing Jedi uniform, going by the name Kenobi, and looking after a kid called Skywalker. R2D2 didn’t think to mention Anakin to Luke? Or is Skywalker the “Smith” of that galaxy’s surnames?
Regarding that very last part of your comment (about R2D2), his and C-3PO’s memory is erased at the end of EPIII by orders of Sen. Organa, so I think that’d explain it.
Right, but George Lucas already knew the story and he’s the one that named him.
Lucas famously make things up as he went, and retconned many things along the way.
Originally Luke’s sister was a yet to be introduced character, not Leia. The film titled “Star Wars” was retroactively changed to become Episode 4. Han Solo was frozen at the end of one of the films because he wasn’t sure if Harrison Ford would be back. They even changed the voice of Vader in post production, and the original actor found out when he watched the premiere. If you watch the prequels and original trilogy back to back there are glaring potholes. You can’t even officially get the original versions of the movies because Lucas doesn’t want them to be available.
Would you mind shortly elaborating on the plot holes ?
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Original-Trilogy-vs-The-Prequels-inconsistencies-retcons-plot-holes-and-discrepancies/id/90199
Here’s just one breakdown I’ve found by googling. Some of these can be justified by making up theories of characters lying or making mistakes, others are clearly for the fact that they forgot details from the OT while they were writing the PT and contradicted themselves.
Potholes aside, my favourite dumb thing is that in the OT Obi-Wan was wearing farmers clothes to blend in, you can see uncle Owen wearing matching clothes. But the in PT that’s apparently the Jedi uniform. Not very smart to hide out in Tatooine wearing Jedi uniform, going by the name Kenobi, and looking after a kid called Skywalker. R2D2 didn’t think to mention Anakin to Luke? Or is Skywalker the “Smith” of that galaxy’s surnames?
Thanks !
Regarding that very last part of your comment (about R2D2), his and C-3PO’s memory is erased at the end of EPIII by orders of Sen. Organa, so I think that’d explain it.