I mean, Han Solo did the same. I don’t think that Lucas thought that it would really be much more than the three movies, and evidently didn’t come up with much lore or backstory. I don’t think they ever touched on what happened to Darth Vader and Sidious that put them into power (it’s been a few years since I’ve seen them, could be wrong). Closest thing we got was a mention of the Clone Wars, with about no description of it.
Lucas didn’t even plan for Vader to be Luke’s father at the start. Leigh Brackett, the main scriptwriter for ESB, never even knew that (she died of cancer when the script was in the final stages). That’s why there’s this awkward “certain point of view” discussion with Obi-wan in RotJ to explain away the cave conversation in the first movie; Lucas didn’t plan that from the beginning, and he had to patch over a plot hole.
i’m not familiar enough with the source material to know what these conversations were offhand. little help? links to parts of the script or youtubes or whatevers?
I mean, Han Solo did the same. I don’t think that Lucas thought that it would really be much more than the three movies, and evidently didn’t come up with much lore or backstory. I don’t think they ever touched on what happened to Darth Vader and Sidious that put them into power (it’s been a few years since I’ve seen them, could be wrong). Closest thing we got was a mention of the Clone Wars, with about no description of it.
Lucas didn’t even plan for Vader to be Luke’s father at the start. Leigh Brackett, the main scriptwriter for ESB, never even knew that (she died of cancer when the script was in the final stages). That’s why there’s this awkward “certain point of view” discussion with Obi-wan in RotJ to explain away the cave conversation in the first movie; Lucas didn’t plan that from the beginning, and he had to patch over a plot hole.
He very much made it up as he went.
Exactly. We have to ignore a couple lines that don’t make much sense, but that’s not a big obstacle to enjoying the stories.
i’m not familiar enough with the source material to know what these conversations were offhand. little help? links to parts of the script or youtubes or whatevers?