Owen and Beru are the 2 most wasted characters in Georges Prequels. They barely have any connection to Anakin,see him once and don't even meet Obi Wan until he gives them Luke who they take in no questions asked. This completely wastes the setup in ANH.

Owen in ANH seems almost to have PTSD about Anakin/Obi Wan and Beru seems to remember Anakin like a good friend or even brother. They both very obviously had a much larger roll than what was retconned later especially Owen.

Own should have been like a gruffer Samwise Gamgee in the PT and should have grown disillusioned by the horrible events of the Clone Wars as well as Anakins ruthless actions during it. I know this is a common idea but it's common because of the inherent dramatic potential.

I actually think it should be taken a step farther and have Owen be more of a main character than Anakin. Owen and Obi Wan should have been the leads as they would give two perspectives on Anakins fall just as Luke and his sister (not Leia in my SW) is giving a perspective on Anakins redemption.

Owen dies in ANH early on and that might be a problem with this idea for some people but for me it just caps off the whole tragedy of the PT just like Obi Wans death. They never get the chance they deserve because of the circumstances around them brought into place by Palpatine directly and indirectly. Vader/Anakin killing the Emperor finally makes their deaths matter and it also is almost an apology by Anakin for those who's lives were ruined by his fall.

In my PT Owen is an orphaned former slave who was taken care of by Anakin and Beru's mother (also slaves) as a child. Basically he became like an older brother to Anakin. Owen is then bought by a Spice Trader and he gains his freedom after working on the ship for 5 years. He then gets into the Republic army where his skills are noticed by General Obi Wan Kenobi and they become good friends.

When the Clone Wars path takes them back to Mos Eisley they free Anakin and Beru. Beru falls in love with Owen while Anakin fights alongside him. Eventually after years of war componded by his childs death (thank you u/sigmaecho for that concept btw)he becomes bitter and PTSD riddled and blames Obi Wan,finally beating him up in rage after learning that Obi Wan left Anakin his brother in law and best friend since he was 5 to slowly burn to death.

These are just my rough ideas though,use or discard them at your leisure

I understand that this is far fetched and I’m not expecting a comprehensive answer, just wondering if there’s any lore as to why the Lars wouldn’t have just not told Luke about his father, it’s not like Luke would have remembered anything about his mother or father.

Short Story Discussion Thread

From A Certain Point Of View

Beru Whitesun Lars

Written by Meg Cabot

Welcome to a short story discussion thread!

This month we are reading From A Certain Point Of View, and short story discussion threads appear daily, so check in often!

Topic starters:

* Did you like this short story?

* What was your favourite moment and why?

* How does this short story rate on your overall opinion of the Expanded universe?

Think about it. They knew what happened to the Jedi, and possibly even knew that Anakin had turned into Vader. They knew that Obi-Wan taking Luke as an apprentice would lead to possible death of their nephew, and to protect Luke, they did their best to keep him from Obi-Wan.

Also Luke wanted to join the Imperial Academy in ANH. In response, Owen tried to get like to stay for another year. If Luke did join the academy, he could have been taken by the empire and turned into a sith.

Owen and Beru did everything they could to protect Luke, and in doing so they were killed by the empire, while Obi-Wan simply shrugged it off.

Luke's capacity to lean things quickly was phenomenal.

In a few days he goes from not knowing about the force, to using it to guide missiles with perfect precision.

He is then trained from somewhere between a few hours to a few days in basic Jedi training, and is suddenly capable of not being completely trounced by the second biggest threat in the galaxy.

If he can pick skills up this fast, he should have been a stellar student at school, and teachers would have put his name forward to high class academies for scholarships (or whatever the Star Wars equivalent was). He wouldn't have been begging to be allowed to go.

Alternatively he was home schooled by Owen and Beru who, knowing who his father was, were trying to ensure he didn't have any bad influences. This would have ultimately failed, as you can see he was getting frustrated with their stifling of his enthusiasms for adventure, if he ever snapped due to frustration, he most likely would have turned as psychotic as Anakin did about his mother.

Luke wasn't a simple farm boy because it was in his nature, his adoptive parents were preventing him from being anything else.

Does this make them bad parents?

Pretty sweet card for a couple of forgotten characters. Power 4, Ability 3, Destiny 3, for a deploy cost of only 3.

Most of the game text isn't too relevant, except that gem at the end about Luke being power +6 if this card is lost. Picked it up for $1 and it's going in my deck!

Considering 3PO worked in the household as seen in Episode 2

Luke is in hiding with them. The first rule of witness protection is DON'T USE YOUR REAL NAME. Skywalker couldn't have been a very common name so it was very stupid to not change his name to Lars.

Thanks for taking the time everyone; I worked with the Sheriffs office in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. It's a Podunk place-- most beings never heard of it until Luke Skywalker appeared and put us on the map. Tatooine has been a rough and tumble place for as long as anyone knows, but the case of Owen and Beru Lars has always haunted me.

Neighbors seen their house burning. They were dead. Just bones and ragged cooked meat. My first impression was that they was probably in deep with the Hutts. Old married men tend to break a little bad, especially with access to the stuff we got here. But, it didn't turn out to be that simple.

By all accounts Owen and Beru were kind people. Stand-up salt of the planet type people. They weren't earning much more than they needed to survive, and there were no signs of lavish spending around their home.

Then I realized the boy and the land speeder were missing.

I know that boy wasn't theirs, belonged to Beru's sister or something. But now they say he's a big Rebel hero or a Jedi for the New Republic. This case is old and cold, but as retirement looms up on me, it just doesn't sit right.

Normally the Empire left extensive paperwork or data files. Good records in old Imperial archives and offices. Lots of it just sitting around now. I can't find any instances of them using napalm devices, or gangster-style burn-ups with petrol. The Imperials at least booked you and put you on a show trial.

This just always seemed personal to me. Real passionate crime. I heard people can get real hopped up on the Force and do some wild stuff. Church down the road be dancing with snakes and shit. Crazy shit.

I personally always believed that boy did it. Hearing about him being a Jedi just confirmed it.

What happened to the Lars family that day, years ago?

Luke was taken to them mere days after birth. Why did the couple not raise him as their own? He would have no memory of the delivery. This is purely a take from the final scene of ROTS.

EDIT: To make it more understandable, I'm not asking why George Lucas didn't write it so, I'm asking why (in character) Beru and Owen would choose to do so.

If it was a blaster weapon, which i think is most likely, why did they use such a high setting instead of simply shooting them?

Edit: I'm interested in George Lucas original thoughts during the development of ANH on this matter.

I just rewatched A New Hope, and one thing I have never questioned before is what happened on the day Luke went looking for R2. It seems reasonable that Owen and Beru would have every reason to comply with the Empire, not knowing about the significance of the droids and not wanting to draw attention to themselves, so I would have thought they would have mentioned that they believed Luke had gone off with two droids they could describe. What reason would they have for not at the very least leaving someone to wait for Luke's return, if not leave everyone alive and attempt to resolve it peacefully?

I just can't imagine why they would have been brutally killed over something it is reasonable to assume they knew nothing about, and not use the information they did have to do the same to Luke before he got to Mos Eisley, or alert the Imperial presence on Tatooine to the appearance of the droids.

This seems like the sort of thing that might have changed in canon, and so if it has the Legends version is probably more interesting (and would better fit in with my experience of the Star Wars universe).

So, in Ep IV, Beru seems to happily reminisce when she states that Luke "has too much of his father in him". Which means she's either she's a psycho, or that she doesn't know about Darth Vader.

Owen says "that's what I'm afraid of", which might imply that he does know about Vader, but the point of the conversation seems to be that Luke isn't cut out for the quiet life of a Moisture Farmer on Tatooine.

The prequels raise the question of what are they reminiscing about/making an analogy to? Young Anakin wasn't really given the choice of a quiet life a a farmer; he went straight from slave to Jedi-trainee and left the planet before he even hit puberty. Which was also all before the Lars's entered the picture.

All you get from the prequels is that Owen and Beru met the guy once (with Beru saying nothing more than 'hello'), and that visit ended with him slaughtering a whole village of Sand people. Which you think wouldn't leave much to reminisce over, or a very positive first impression. So the reaction is still weird.

Perhaps they didn't know about the massacre? He could've have told his stepfather Cliegg that he'd saved/met Shmi and left out the gruesome bits. But on the other hand, Tatooine is supposedly a small planet where not much happens. So you'd think word would get 'round.

TL;DR: They act very weird talking about a person they only met once and who they have reason to know massacred women and children, and whom they might know is Darth Vader.

So I'm watching A New Hope, and this question about Owen and Beru occurred to me. After all, in the prequel trilogy, we see that the two are young enough to have their own children in addition to adopting Luke. The only reasons I can think of is that they didn't have the resources to support more than one child, or one (or both) were infertile. However, I'm interested in what you guys think. Thanks!

Where do they end up, what becomes of both of them? Start at any point, be it immediately after the decision not to give Luke over, or many years later.

CHARACTERS IN BOLD ARE CONFIRMED

CHARACTERS IN ITALICS ARE FROM DLC ONLY

Keep in mind that many of these characters have multiple variants, in which case they still only take up one slot in a similar manner to Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Additionally, some characters such as Ahsoka Tano, Boba Fett, and Lando Calrissian have DLC variants, but the characters themselves are playable in the base game and thus are not in italics.

1. 2-1B
2. 4-LOM
3. Aayla Secura
4. Adi Gallia
5. Admiral Ackbar
6. Admiral Holdo
7. Admiral Ozzel
8. Admiral Piett
9. Admiral Yularen
10. Aftab Ackbar
11. Agen Kolar
12. Ahsoka Tano
13. Albrekh
14. Anakin Skywalker
15. Ap’lek
16. Asajj Ventress
17. Aurra Sing
18. B1 Battle Droid
19. B2 Super Battle Droid
20. Babu Frik
21. Bail Organa
22. Bala Tik
23. Baron Papanoida
24. Barriss Offee
25. Baze Malbus
26. Bazine Netal
27. BB-8
28. BB-9E
29. Beaumont Kin
30. Ben Solo
31. Beru Lars
32. Bib Fortuna
33. Biggs Darklighter
34. Bith Musician
35. Bo-Katan Kryze
36. Boba Fett
37. Bobbajo
38. Bodhi Rook
39. Boolio
40. Boss Nass
41. Bossk
42. C-3P0
43. Cad Bane
44. Canto Bight Policeman
45. Captain Antilles
46. Captain Panaka
47. Captain Phasma
48. Captain Rex
49. Captain Tarpals
50. Captain Typho
51. Cara Dune
52. Cardo
53. Cassian Andor
54. Chancellor Palpatine
55. Chancellor Valorum
56. Chewbacca
57. Chief Chirpa
58. Chief Tarfful
59. Chirrut Imwe
60. Cid
61. Cin Drallig
62. Cliegg Lars
63. Clone Trooper (Phase I)
64. Clone Trooper (Phase II)
65. Cobb Vanth
66. Coleman Kcaj
67. Coleman Trebor
68. Commander Appo
69. Commander Bacara
70. Commander Bly
71. Commander Cody
72. Commander Gree
73. Commander Neyo
74. Constable Zuvio
75. Count Dooku
76. Crix Madine
77. Crosshair
78. C’ai Threnalli
79. D-0
80. Dak Ralter
81. Dark Trooper
82. Darth Maul
83. Darth Vader
84. Dave Filoni
85. Death Trooper
86. Dengar
87. Depa Billaba
88. Dexter Jettster
89. Din Djarin
90. Director Krennic
91. DJ
92. Dobbu Scay
93. Dr. Evazan
94. Droideka
95. Droopy McCool
96. Dryden Vos
97. Echo
98. Eeth Koth
99. Elan Sleazebaggano
100. Ello Asty
101. Emperor Palpatine
102. Enfys Nest
103. EV-9D9
104. Even Piell
105. Ezra Bridger
106. Fennec Shand
107. Finn
108. First Guard
109. FN-2199
110. Fode and Beed
111. Frog Lady
112. GA-97
113. Gamorrean Guard
114. Garindan
115. Garvin Dreis
116. General Dodonna
117. General Ematt
118. **General Gri

I didn't realize they weren't supposed to be related to Luke before the prequels came out. I think I had heard one of the film novelizations mentioned Owen being Obi-Wan's brother but I thought that it was just a weird inconsistency. Given how Owen and Beru talk about Luke's father in ANH and Obi-Wan also referring to them as is aunt and uncle (not that that means anything I guess given his track record) I just never questioned that they were his aunt and uncle when I was growing up (before the prequels came out).

Currently reading Ambush at Corellia ('95) and came across this quote: "Luke had come the closest of any of them to having a normal upbringing. He had been raised on Tatooine, thinking a farm couple, Owen and Beru Lars, were his aunt and uncle...Owen and Beru had posed as Luke's uncle and aunt. As best Leia understood, they had been kind to Luke, but in a distant sort of way."

So I guess in Legends (prior to the prequels at least) they weren't supposed to actually be his aunt and uncle? I don't hate it but it just seems odd.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

LEGO has made 4 Luke’s Landspeeder in the 22 years they have been in the business. I think it is about time we get a UCS Luke’s Landspeeder. To me, this would recreate such an iconic scene from A New Hope where Ben Kenobi says “these are not the droids you are looking for.” Mini figures I would want to see in this set are a brand new Farmboy Luke to add to your collection, but with arm printing. I would also like to see an updated, more accurate Ben Kenobi, with a hood that is the same material as the cape. Other figures I would like to see is an R2-D2 with a third leg, a C-3PO with leg printing for his silver shin and foot, and why not throw in an Owen and Beru Lars. I think this would make sense because I’m sure Luke’s Landspeeder will show up at least once in the Kenobi Series. Thank you for listening to my idea and rant. Have a nice day.

We've now hit the end of Darth Vader's adventures on Exegol with issue #11 because issue #12 and onwards seems to be just a series of tie-ins to the "War of the Bounty Hunters" story arc.

So let's talk about it.

I'm sure several of you have already seen some of the leaked images and might be wondering what the hell is going on. I'll be tossing in a number of hyperlinks for the sake of providing context so please click on them if you want a slightly better grasp on what's going on.

This is going to be quite thorough. I'd be surprised if more than 10 people manage to make it all the way through this exploration with me. I hope I manage to format it well enough to make it easy to process.

The Darth Vader (2020) comic has featured 2 main story arcs thus far. Some of it's good and some of it's unbelievably bad. It's a mixed bag.

1. The first arc was from #1-5 (Dark Heart of the Sith). The story is set after ESB and follows Vader as he attempts to uncover the truth behind Padme's death and how his son Luke was hidden from him over the last 21 years or so. It's not bad.
2. The second arc was from #6-11 (Into the Fire). In which Palpatine punishes Vader for dredging up the past and Vader eventually discovers Exegol. It's mostly a disaster and/or farce.

Dark Heart of the Sith (#1-5)

#1 (Feb 2020)

• Vader is experiencing visions/flashbacks of his confrontation with Luke in ESB and reflecting on his experience. This will be important later.
• Vader immediately heads off with a forensics team to uncover the past. Palpatine is amused that Vader is going off-script. This will be important later.
• Vader [starts at Owen and Beru's house on Tatooine.](https://2.bp.blogspot.co

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

They were cooked in Greece.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂