The thing you have to remember about the first Star Wars movie is that when it was made, Luke wasn't Darth Vader's son and Darth Vader wasn't a guy named Skywalker from Tattooine, so hiding Luke on this backwater wasn't a bad idea. It was only later, when Lucas began collapsing plot threads in his mish-mosh plot…

Perhaps the Galactic Republic/Empire was in a teensy-tinsy galaxy that only had about five planets. That would explain why we see this one shitty one in five of the six movies.

But Imperial snitches catch on to Luke and Obi Wan being in Mos Eisley almost immediately. They are ratted out by Imperial spies in the time it takes to walk from the shitty bar to the shitty landing bay.

I was annoyed that one of them didn't stay behind to watch, as well.

Nothing in the comic could constitute a spoiler for this episode. In the comic *SPOILER*
there is a chance encounter with a small roving band of cannibals who menace a character who isn't even in the tv series any more. Another character who isn't even in the tv series anymore freaks out.

You know, a Romancing the Stone reboot is not a terrible idea.