I love that this thread is not centered on the absolutely nonsensical “I am your father” death-knell to any semblance of SW continuity, but instead to this bizarre obscurantist, interpretive trivia.
Huh? Darth Vader being Luke’s father is a continuity error now?
Not so much an error as a flamboyant abandonment.
Abandonment of what?
Think about it, professor. What’s the topic of this thread?
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THERE you go!
Now that you’ve stumbled over that hurdle, you can start to think of whether it makes any sense that Vader like suddenly realizes that he’s Luke’s father, and wanted him to have the lightsaber that Ben had, and also killed Luke’s father, and was Ben’s pupil and also Ben’s peer, and…
There’s no need to be rude or condescending. The original post says that there is no continuity between the Star Wars films, a statement with which I disagree.
Making Anakin and Vader the same person is a retcon, but it’s not a continuity error.