Continuity mistake: During Anakin and Padmé's conversation on Mustafar, in the first shot, they are standing near some sort of container. They continue to stand in the same place in the following shots. When Anakin sees Obi-Wan and becomes furious, both of them take several steps away from the container, but when Anakin says, "You brought him here to kill me.", they are standing near it again. In the following shots, it is nowhere to be seen. (01:39:35 - 01:41:55)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Obi-Wan and Yoda find the dead Jedi younglings, in the first shot, there are no bodies on the stairs. But when Yoda says, "Killed not by clones, this Padawan.", you can see a dead body on the bottom of the stairs. (01:30:40)
Continuity mistake: When Anakin and Padmé are talking on the couch after Anakin is appointed to the Jedi council, they keep changing position between shots, depending on the angle of the camera. The easiest way to see this is to watch the red cloth hanging behind them on the couch. In some shots it is behind Padmé, in other shots, it is behind Anakin.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Luke and Leia are born, the blankets under the babies are arranged differently between several shots.
Continuity mistake: When Bail Organa hands Leia to his wife, Breha Organa, the floor around Breha is covered in shadow. In the close-up of Leia being held, there are no shadows, and the design of the floor is different. (02:07:20)
Continuity mistake: When Anakin tells Padme he's found a way to save her, she says "Is that what's bothering you" while placing her hand on his chest and pulling it away again. When it cuts her hand is still on his chest. (00:51:30)
Continuity mistake: When Anakin is choking Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan's lightsaber is held in different angles between shots. (00:24:40)
Continuity mistake: When Anakin, Obi-wan and Palpatine are running through the hall and get stuck in the ray shields, Anakin is facing forward. When it cuts he is suddenly facing Palpatine. (00:17:10)
Continuity mistake: When Padmé is stroking her son's cheek, as she says, "Oh, Luke." the baby's hands are up by his mouth, which they weren't in the previous and following shots. (02:00:45)
Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan has defeated Anakin and speaking to him, in some shots he has wet hair stuck to his forehead and some shots not. (01:55:50)
Continuity mistake: When Padmé is brushing her hair on the balcony, her position changes between the second and the third shot, seen, for example, from the pattern on the floor. Her hairbrush and her arms change position between the first three shots too. (00:28:15)
Continuity mistake: After discussing whether Anakin is the chosen one or not, the ship Yoda, Obi-Wan and Windu are flying on goes in for landing. When it goes down there is no trace of clones on the ground where it is about to land. When it cuts several clones awaits them. Also two huge vehicles suddenly appears on the ground. (00:39:20)
Continuity mistake: When Count Dooku drops the platform on the unconscious Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan is not lying on the same part of the floor as in the previous shot of him, seen, for example, from the pattern on the floor. Later, when Anakin walks over to him, his position is different again, and the platform has moved as well. He is also lying under a different part of the platform. (00:12:45 - 00:14:30)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene where Obi-Wan, Yoda and Bail Organa discuss the future of Anakin and Padmé's children, Obi-Wan's hand is positioned against his chin. The position of his hand, as well as his left arm, changes between shots. (02:03:50)
Continuity mistake: When Grievous throws his staff on the window making it crack, the pattern on the cracks change between the shots. (00:19:50)
Continuity mistake: When Anakin is on top of the elevator before jumping back inside of it, the glove is missing from his mechanical arm. After he jumps inside, he is wearing it again. (00:10:30)
Continuity mistake: When the Emperor is throwing the pods down toward Yoda his position changes from standing on the edge of the pod to inside the pod between a few shots. (01:48:15)
Continuity mistake: Just before Anakin and Obi-Wan throw each other through the air, in the first shot from above, they are duelling on the floor. In the next shot from the other side, their positions are different, seen from the pattern on the floor. (01:47:25)
Continuity mistake: When Padmé is talking to Anakin on Mustafar, her right hand keeps changing position between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Anakin is talking to Yoda about his premonition, the shadows and the intensity of the sunlight shining through the windows keeps changing, depending on the camera angle.
Chosen answer: Powerful force users seem to have some degree of control over their bodies even after death. In the later series, Luke's wife Mara Jade Skywalker only allows her body to disappear when her killer, and nephew Jacen Solo arrives at her funeral as a clue. Thus it appears that a powerful force user can simply choose if they wish their body to disappear.
Darius Angel