I was watching a parody on YouTube making fun of the scene where Obi Wan is telling Luke about his father. I think it's pretty clear at that stage that Lucas had absolutely no intention of making Vader Luke's father.
I thought hard about the line "Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle would never allow it" really drives this point home. In ROTS, we are subjected to a scene where Obi Wan picks up Anakin's lightsaber; however, this does absolutely no justice to the line. I tried thinking of different things Lucas could have done to solve this problem, but it is simply impossible.
For example, Anakin could have had the kids (before turning to the dark side) and discussed with Obi-Wan someday wanting his kids to use his lightsaber. However, this can't happen because
1. It's not Anakin's decision to determine whether or not his children are to be trained in the Jedi Arts. The decision lies solely with the Jedi Council.
2. Anakin isn't allowed to marry OR have kids, so there is no way he could have held this discussion with Obi-Wan unless he wanted to be expelled from the Jedi Order.
3. Anakin (and Vader for that matter) never knew that the kids were even born!
As long as Vader is the father of Luke, that line cannot possibly be justified. The only way this could ever be corrected is for Obi-Wan to have stated "Your father 'died' shortly before you were born, but I believe he would have wanted you to be trained in the Jedi Arts".....or something like that.
Nevermind....there is NO solution to the problem.
This post has been edited by Storm: 28 December 2006 - 09:37 PM