Ryan, sure he does. He reads Luke’s about having a sister. He also does a ‘long distance’ - I cant believe im rising to the bait - telepathic convo with Luke in the deleted opening to ROTJ. Im sure pedantic boy will have some reason why those moments are invalidated.
He didn’t like the movie and wants everyone to know of his displeasure. I’ve seen the type many times.
There’s a difference between Vader “reading” say Luke’s mind. And Luke and Vader having a telepathic “phone call”. Like in Jedi, think of it like Vader and Luke having a telepathic “phone call”, and Vader can “sense” that Luke is hiding something. And so Vader prods Luke into “accidentally” revealing to him that Leia is his twin-sister and that Obi-Wan had been hiding her.
I mean it’s pretty clear with Vader saying something like “Your feelings have betrayed you”. But I always took from that scene that Vader prodded and got Luke to reveal to him that Leia was his twin-sister and that Obi-Wan had been hiding her from Vader and the Emperor. Then Luke was pissed at himself for revealing it and also about Vader wanting to turn her, and then Luke loses it and with anger of “betraying leia”, he beat the hell out of Vader.
Vader didn’t read Luke’s mind, but Luke accidentally or gave in to Vader and betrayed leia by revealing that she was his twin-sister.
I think the movie speaks for itself as to which is right. But which sounds better to you? I like that Luke revealed it to Vader vs. Vader reading Luke’s mind.