may have missed it

At the moment it could go either way.

However, with the timeline set my George Lucas, giving 20 years between Ep3 & ANH and only 2 years between AOTC & Ep3 it seems unlikely. Even if Anakin and Padmé concieved during AOTC then the children would only be 15 months old in Ep3 and that would be a maximum.

As OB1 indicates that Luke and Leia were seperated at birth, and we are 99% sure that Anakin does not turn in AOTC, it would seem reasonable to assume that the twins will probably be born at some point in Episode-III.

Thus, unless Episode-III takes place over at least 6 months or so it would have been hard for Leia to remember Padmé.

Therefore, I summise that Padmé and Leia go into hiding towards the latter half of Episode-III. 😉

Tomacco, I would be extremely surprised if Vader knew about Luke. I would imagine he would have made more of an effort to find him.

He may well have known that Padme was pregnant, of course.

By ESB Vader his discovered Luke's identity from his exploits in ANH; it has nothing to do with the past.

And no, they don't know that Yoda survived, of course.

It looks VERY unlikely that Anakin will kill Amidala; as RC says the timing simply doesn't fit.

It could go either way, but I think Vader knew about Luke. He didn't consider him a threat, because he didn't know where he was, nor where Kenobi was. And that Grand Moff leader guy in ANH tells Vader that Kenobi "must certainly be dead by now."

But it could go the other way, too. Perhaps he didn't know about it until the first death star attack.

Oh s*#t! I just thought of something! Maybe he didn't know about it until ANH. When Kenobi sacraficed himself, Vader cut him down, then turned and walked toward Luke and the others. Maybe Vader thought "What the hell did the great Obi-wan let himself die for? What's so special about these punks? (besides one is a princess)"

Then Luke blew up the death star. "The force is strong with this one," Vader said, closing in on Luke. But he also tried to shoot Luke's plane. Would he do that if he knew it was his son?

This is making my head hurt.

If you want to join the whole 'The Force is strong with this one' debate. it;s currently me against the rest of the world in one of the other threads around here... I maintain that Vader was just commenting on the difficulty of the target.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
If you want to join the whole 'The Force is strong with this one' debate. it;s currently me against the rest of the world in one of the other threads around here...

My humblest apologies, yerssot. I'm just so used to being diasagreed with...

it's ok.

That grand-moff Tarkin thinks that Obi-wan must be death is just because there are a lot of people who don't like the force.
ie: Hocky religion and ancient weapons are no match against a good blaster at your side.

Tarkin's line would have a made a lot more sense if they hadn't have made Obi-Wan younger than expected in TPM.

Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them

RC has an idea I like. Having Ep3 last over a long period of time ie 6 months. Would that work for SW? I don't know but it would be interesting.

Don't think so, otherwhise you will get some strange effects

Vader knew of Luke. In RotJ, Vader said "You have a twin sister. . .Obi-wan was wise to hid HER from me." He didn't say, it was wise to hide YOU BOTH from me.

No, Vader assumed that Obi-Wan trained Luke and sent him after Vader but kept Leia a secret. Simple enough.

Quite right.

That wasn't that difficult

Yes, we're slipping here... 😄

Originally posted by King Jedi
RC has an idea I like. Having Ep3 last over a long period of time ie 6 months. Would that work for SW? I don't know but it would be interesting.

Yeah but why change the style of a film series for one film, sw has always been over a time period of i'd of thought no more than a week, 2 weeks, it is difficult however to prove the time period of sw's because there is no actual units of time used but i doubt gl would change to style for 1 film, perhaps a lot of things will have happened by ep3 that will get mentioned in the opening text. i for one think he made a mistake by putting tpm so early in anakins life, anakin at 15 would have been far more interesting.

ESB took place over quite a long period of time.

But we don't have any idea how long it took

Originally posted by Ushgarak
ESB took place over quite a long period of time.

you can't say that because there is no mention of time, the best pointer to the time span of that film is the story of han and leia, it doesn't SEEM that they spend too long fleeing from the empirials, from the time they leave hoth to the time they get to city in the clouds, i've had only of said it would have been a few days, a week at most.