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Originally Posted by GGG
If you hadn't seen anything before don't you ruin empire by knowing Darth is Lukes father. Obi Wan Kenobis entire role becomes pretty useless in 4 if you know the entire back story.
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This is why I wish there was a version of that prequel edit that removes the scene where Natalie Portman gives birth and names her kids. Pointless scene and spoils the watch-through. If you just know she died in childbirth you at least wouldn't know that Leia is his kid. Hard to get away from the surname "Skywalker", though... that was pretty dumb on Obi Wan's part. Surely you'd change the kid's name if you were trying to hide him.
EDIT: I looked at the scripts. You could actually cut any mention of the word "Skywalker" out of ANH fairly easily with some creative editing. It only comes up twice. Unfortunately ESB is harder, because throughout the whole Hoth portion they refer to him solely as "Commander Skywalker". Hard to fix. You'd also have to cut the whole scene where Vader and the Emperor are talking about him as the "new enemy", which would be a shame for a few reasons.
CC I agree with you about Clone Wars, but even though it got darker as it went along, it was never as pure kiddie stuff as my impression of rebels - Ahsoka notwithstanding. They had a pre-teen mandalorian girl in pink spraypainted armor, for Christ's sake.