agracer said:
Article 58-10 Offender said:
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Why didn't Darth Vader think to check Uncle Owen's place for his son? AT ANY TIME
he didn't know Luke existed
he knew Padme was pregnant. He knew she died but how would he be certain there was no child birth??
she was made to look pregnant at her funeral, and he wasn't given any hint at anything otherwise. all he knew was that the emperor told him that in his anger he killed her, which was presumably when he force choked and threw her, at which point she was clearly still pregnant. that was his last interaction with her.
I mean I guess at some point he could have gotten paranoid that she hadn't actually died at his hand and actually died later and that she wasn't actually pregnant when she died and that she had given birth and then died of a broken heart after gasping out the names "Luke and Leia", and then gone on a galaxy wide search for two kids that MIGHT exist, but it seems like a stretch to call that a plot hole.
it's pretty clear that he didn't know Luke existed until the end of ANH / beginning of Empire.