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Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by ethbr1 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @04:48PM (#39339103)
Wow.

So basically, if one line of dialog in A New Hope had been less ambiguous as it happened to be written... Vader wouldn't have been Anakin?

Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by hgs3 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:25PM (#39339379)
I'd say the original already isn't ambiguous: Kenobi directly tells Luke that Vader murdered his Father. The "from a certain point of view" scene had to be added in ROTJ to explain away the retcon.
Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by canjobear on Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:47PM (#39339577)
Ben Kenobi does pause in a pregnant way right before delivering the fateful line. In a way that almost looks like he's thinking about how to hide something. It works perfectly with the later revelation.
Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by ethbr1 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @06:39PM (#39339963)
For reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFB16GCocfw

It's crazy that essentially the entire Star Wars canon is built on one piece of dialog by Alec Guinness. (Not just Anakin/Vader, but the Force and the events around Order 66)

Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by MichaelDickens on Sunday February 11, 2024 @10:27PM (#39341026)
The face he makes at 0:56 does look like the face of someone who's trying to come up with a lie.
Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by lupusreal on Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:18PM (#39339312)
More likely it would just be left to the fans to come up with their own justifications for the retcon, like most other inconsistencies in Star Wars.