Listening to the “Your mother…” clips and from picturing how the ending for ROTJ:R will be shows how this edit shouldn’t just be about the technical stuff but on what would give the story more depth.
Exactly! I support changing the line to “Your mother…” for a variety of reasons.
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If we don’t acknowledge the Prequels, it gives Luke and Leia’s mother/Anakin’s wife more of a role in the story.
- It implies that Vader still thinks about her, which would give him both a sense of regret and reveal to the audience that there may be some love within him.
- The change also makes the difference between Obi-Wan and Luke’s stances towards Anakin/Vader more marked. It implies that Obi-Wan never thought Vader could be saved, which makes Luke’s achievement more remarkable.
- Vader’s tie to the light becomes more about love. He may have been like a brother to Obi-Wan, but he never loved his master in the same way he loved his son or the mother of his kids.
- One edit used “Padme…” instead of “Your mother…” for the line. I don’t like this nearly as much since the name “Padme” means nothing to Luke. He’s never learned his mother’s name, nor would a subsequent line clear it up.
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If we acknowledge the Prequels (say, Hal9000’s edits), it gets the movies to line up a little more.
- While finding information, I discovered a clip of James Arnold Taylor and Mat Lucas which shows Obi-Wan trying to save Anakin. It’s taken from the ROTS videogame. So, if somebody wants to put that in a prequel edit or a flashback in ROTJ, there you go.