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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
The new empire footage between vader and palpatine ruins the original ending of empire, because it is revealed earlier in the movie that vader is luke's father, so it wrecks the dark revelation "I AM YOUR FATHER!".
If you ignore the PT, it is never established that Darth Vader is, in fact, Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan finally explains that truth to Luke when Luke returns to Dagobah in ROTJ. And the new dialog between Vader and Palpatine never reveals specifically that the rebel who destroyed the Death Star is, in fact, Vader's son. So up to the moment that Vader utters those words in TESB, he has no relationship to Anakin as far as the viewer is aware.
--THX