Silly musings on Revenge of the Sith [spoiler alert]. . . .
Okay, so your former apprentice Anakin Skywalker has gone over to the dark side and become Darth Vader. His wife birthed twins before she died. You want to hide the kids from the Dark Lord. Do you (a) change the kids' names and place them with an anonymous family on some random planet? Or (b) name the son Luke Skywalker, and place him on Anakin's home planet with Anakin's relatives (whom he met before he went bad)?
Turns out Obi-Wan does both. No wonder the Jedi got wiped out.
So Darth finds out about Luke in short order. ("Imperial intelligence, my Lord. The name of the pilot who blew up the Death Star was Skwalker." "Ahhh . . . .") But he's so ignorant of Leia that he tortures her without realizing she's daddy's little girl. In fact, he doesn't learn she's his daughter until blabber-brain Luke gives it away by thinking about it too hard.
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