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?
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?