There is a plot problem with Darth Vader coming from Tatooine. Lets assume that Darth Vader
does in fact come from Tatooine.
Vader, as Anakin, knows both Owen and Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan tries to train him. Owen tries to dissuade him from joining Obi-Wan.
Anakin/ Vader gives birth to a son, Luke. Luke is raised on Tatooine by Owen, with Obi-Wan nearby.
Darth Vader does nothing to stop this or to harass either Luke, Owen, or Obi-Wan, until the plans for the Death Star wind up on Tatooine. Vader then sends down a team of stormtroopers to Tatooine, who kill Owen while looking for the plans. Vader shows no interest in this whatsoever. The stormtroopers also intercept Obi-Wan, then ignore him, then try to stop the smuggler's ship he is leaving Tatooine in, but don't seem to bother reporting this to Vader.
Vader then "senses" Obi-Wan on the Death Star, but only after the Millenium Falcon arrives. His comments in his duel with Obi-Wan make it pretty clear that he had no idea where this guy was until he showed up in the middle of his main battlestation.
Sometime after the Death Star blows up, Vader learns that Luke is his son and has joined the Rebel Alliance. Lucas doesn't explain how this happened. Vader sets an elaborate trap to capture Luke, after discussing it with the Emperor.
Later, we find out that Vader also had a daughter, but had absolultely no idea about this. But he knew enough about his son to try to look for him. Actually this is another plot problem.
Many people have pointed this out. Vader makes no effort to make contact with Owen, despite being close enough to him for Owen to warn Vader about joining Obi-Wan Kenobi. But he is very interested in where both Obi-Wan and his son are. Even if you postulate he didn't know he had a son until sometime between ANH and ESB, as soon as Vader realizes where Obi-Wan is he seeks him out.
But Vader obviously is not interested in Owen at all. However,
Owen knew Obi-Wan (he tried to dissuade Vader from joining him, so if Vader is interested in where Obi-Wan is you would think that he would try to contact Owen.
Now this is hard enough to reconcile -and remember we are still dealing just with the OT here- but if Owen comes from Tatooine, and still lives there, it is even more perplexing. Because Vader has no interest in Tatooine at all, even repugnance, even though his spacecraft is orbiting the planet! But if Owen comes from Tatooine, he would have sought Owen out there, if only to find Obi-Wan.
Interestingly when Vader makes an effort to locate his son he identifies him fairly easily.
Its pretty clear from the lack of any reaction from Vader on orbiting Tatooine again that the one planet Anakin is not likely to be from is Tatooine. Remember, Luke
did react to returning to Tatooine. But Obi-Wan says that Owen thought that Vader "shouldn't have left here" ie Tatooine.
So already you have a contradiction between ESB/ ROTJ and ANH. You have to either disregard a whole series of actions/ non-actions that Vader too in regards to Tatooine, or one sentence from Obi-Wan in describing Anakin's past, a description that Obi-Wan later admits was not the complete truth. If Anakin comes from Tatooine, that contradicts the OT. If Anakin does not come from Tatooine, that contradicts the OT. However, I think the former is a bigger contradiction.
This post has been edited by Casual Fan: 15 June 2005 - 12:52 PM