Vader-bait.

Being a geek (and totally avoiding my homework), I watched A New Hope with my youngest brother this morning. You know, Star Wars IV. The first of the original trilogy. Blah blah blah. Anyway, Luke came on screen and I had a thought and started giggling. The wormbaby gave me a look, so I had to explain it to him.

Luke Skywalker? Totally the decoy baby. Leia was handed over to the Galactic Witness Protection Program, I suppose. They changed her name. Gave her a new identity. Luke kept his name and was thrown back down onto Tatooine. Daddy's home planet. With his aunt and uncle. Seems to me that would be the first place Anakin-turned-Vader would look. So yes. Luke was the bait, back when the remaining Jedi gave a damn and wanted to finish the job with Anakin-turned-Vader. They would lure out Anakin-turned-Vader, smack him one, and not worry about poor decoy-baby Luke. (And then Luke turned into Mark Hamill, so they realized they had to keep him around a little longer. Because Mark Hamill was a whiney farm boy and his sex-appeal was minimal and drowned out by young!Harrison Ford, but, dammit, he was Mark Hamill. He was the Joker in the Batman cartoon and has since become Cartoon Network's bitch. He's worth keeping around a little longer, even if he's still partially Vader-bait. Imdb claims he was also in The Little Mermaid, but I don't remember that at all.)

Righto. Homework now. Sorry.