What the heck is OB1 thinking?

If someone was trying to hide a baby from a punk like Darth Vader,

1)Why would you go to Tatooine?
2)Why would you give the child to Vader's kin?
3)Why would the child keep the name Skywalker?

And most importantly, why the heck didn't Vader figure this all out and go get his son?!?

1) Lack of imagination
2) trying out the old "hide in plain sight" bit
3) So the kid could figure out his destiny...besides who would
want to give up a cool name like Skywalker?
4) Vader was a bit busy choking people and performing the
Emperor's every bidding to go find him. Why would Vader
want the responsibility for a small child; I mean he is in the
middle of a war.

no one ever HID luke on tatooine. vader knew he was there all along. vader kept luke hidden from the EMPEROR. the emperor didnt even know vader had children until sometime after the battle of yavin. so, why NOT let luke stay with relatives?

I think Vader was unaware of the fact that he had children at all.
He learned about Luke after the battle of Yavin.

i suspect that vader did know that he had offspring, hence his telling luke that he was his father, i suspect anakin saw the birth of luke, perhaps hidden in the shadows somewhere after he had turned, when he saw it was a boy he left without seeing the birth of leia. perhaps his fall into the lava (or whatever) damaged his short term memory and so he forgot about his children.

You'd put the baby on tatooine on so that the cast could get a suntan. 😄
I did disagree with lucas putting anakin on tatooine, why have such a large galaxy and only use 12 planets? we don't know that owen is related to vader, although it seems likely.

Vader was just unaware of offspring, so he didn't searched for it

we don't know that owen is related to vader, although it seems likely.

Because we know spoilers and character development history.

ok and how are they related then?????????????????

stepbrothers...

stephbrothers are no related.

Well, I think a lot of people feel related to their stepsiblings..

Now you're nit picking..

but it makes them family!

same mother. different fathers. half-brothers. thats related.

So is Anakin not going to know that Padme is pregnant? How can he not know? Lucas is going to have a tough time with this one, me thinks.

he knows that he has a son, but doesn't know he has a daughter, probably because they changed the name of Leia to Organa

lucas isnt going to have such a hard time explaining. theyre married right? theyre obviously having sex. anakin leaves with obi-wan to fight in the clone wars. padme finds out shes pregnant. she is able to tell anakin that shes pregnant but hes stuck fighting. anakin turns to the dark side. ben kicks anakins ass. padme gives birth and she has twins. obiwan takes luke with him to alderaan and padme takes leah with her to alderaan where she gives him to be raised by the organas.

same mother. different fathers. half-brothers. thats related

So if Owen is going to be Anakin stephbrother ,fine. But they aint related.

True. They can feel related, which by the way I doubt is true with Owen and Anakin, but they still aren't.

how can two people who have the SAME MOTHER not be related? does no one understand that?