Ghost Power

I never liked the idea of Anakin growing up on Tatooine myself. Now this "insignificant" planet is important for ALL fates and is portrayed in FOUR of the six films. Quite a bit.

what I know is that Tatooine is in 5 of the 6 movies...

I didn't think Anakin would be from Tatooine either. But if he was from another planet then it raises a lot of questions like how does he meet Owen and Beru? It was easier to have him on Tatooine.

How was that line in TPM?
I came here when I was very little... 3 I guess.
My mother and I were sold to Gardulla the Hutt...

Something like that...
So he isn't from Tatooine

He might have meant Watto's shop. Padme says "How long have you been here?". She could mean the shop.

Anakin is not FROM Tatooine, but that' where we see him first.

And I think the original plan was that Owen was OB1's brother. So Ob1 could or should have been from Tatooine or something.

how do you know that so certain queeq?

ROTJ novelisation says that Owen is OB1's brother.

BUT THAT'S EU!!!!
naha! ik mag het er niet bij halen, jij ook niet!

True, very true. I'm not saying it's a fact, I mean Owen will be Anakin's stepbrother. But it seems to me the original plan was different.

But there is no proof of it yet in the movies

Hey, can I just remind you that the ROTJ novel is NOT EU! Under no circumstances can it EVER be EU, no matter what. It can be wrong, but not EU.

Remember, EU is not code for 'wrong', but simply defines those parts of Star Wars that are not directly spun from GL's writing. The ROTJ novel IS spun from GL, so it is not, and never will be, EU.

And it so happens that EU is not canoncial. But it does not follow that everything that is non-canonical is also EU.

And may I remind you that, according to Lucasfilm, the ROTJ novel IS canonical (well, 'semi-canonical', anyway). However, it will be totally overridden by the coming film as far as the Owen Lars/Obi-Wan's brother bit is concerned, as per canon rules that put the movies above all else.

Meanwhile, far more direct proof of the original plan of having Own as Obi-Wan's brother is that it was originally scripted. However, when it came to making the story I doubt it made much sense; having both of them from Tatooine stretched it a bit.

but still the novelization is wrong...
so you can't say a thing about the books; only the movies; otherwhise you can get the same thing they did with ROTJ

Well, I can only repeat that the official line is still that the books count but the movies take precedence where they contradict.

But on the whole, far safer to only count the films.

But they let explanations open...

Queeq I used to think that Anakin wasn''t from Tatooine but that line in TPM could have been about the shop.

What? That it had been sold to Gardulla the Hutt? I dunno, vague answer to Padme's question then....

I personally think from an OT point of view, Owen being OB1's brother makes a lot of sense. That'd be the reason why Luke was there: OB1's home planet, backward, out of the way, controlled by the hutts. His and Owen's oufit looked very much the same as if that was a farmer's outfit.
Now with TPM that perception is gone. Those clothes are now official Jedi outfit (I doubt that they were during filming ANH), Tatooine is not controlled by the Republic and therefore a potential Jedi could not come from Tatooine. So OB1 could not be a Jedi.
But with Anakin from a totally different planet, GL would not have to go through all this complex storytelling to fix the holes. Anakin being born without a father, lives on Tatooine, mother marries Cliegg Lars who already has a son Owen, hence Owen being Anakin's stepbrother.... a lot of communication about family members.... does not do well for storytelling IMHO.

Padme says "how long have you been here" and Anakin says, "since I was very little, three I think. My mom and I were sold to Gardula the Hut but she lost us betting on the pod-races".

So who sold Anakin to Gardula? Who owned him before?

If Anakin and his mother were sold to Gardulla the Hutt, then they must've been somewhere that had slavery which implies Tatooine because we don't know about any other, if any, planets that have slavery. Remember Padme's disbelief? I'm guessing that "How long have you been here?" meant the shop.

That's what I think as well now.

But there are still questions like who owned him before Gardula?