Lol … when you think about it … what a mess. Hahahaha … ahaha … (cries a bit)
It wouldn’t be star wars without a convoluted story. It’s been that way since they retroactively made Anakin & Vader the same person.
Not really. In a New Hope, there was something implied about Luke’s father. First, you have Uncle Owen not wanting to talk about Lukes Father. It was taboo to talk about him. Something was kind of fishy there.
Then when Luke asked Obi Wan about his father, you visually see Obi Wan react to the question, paused, and then told the “story” about his father.
There was something set up, or at least allowed the possibility of something significant about his father which made it believable, or at least “natural” about Vader being the father.
Unlike this trilogy, there was no set up or even hints about Palpy coming back to make it believable. (Heck, the leaked script for Dual of the Fates did not have Palpy be brought back, so this was never the plan even at the beginning or at TLJ). Let alone the lore before it, but that’s a side topic.