Originally posted by: Nanner Split
You just contradicted yourself though. "The way it appears to a living Jedi is a combination of the way the Jedi chooses to see it and the way the dead Jedi chooses to present himself." Why would Luke see him that way if he'd never seen him that way before, and therefore had no idea that that's what Anakin looked like.
You just contradicted yourself though. "The way it appears to a living Jedi is a combination of the way the Jedi chooses to see it and the way the dead Jedi chooses to present himself." Why would Luke see him that way if he'd never seen him that way before, and therefore had no idea that that's what Anakin looked like.
I agree. Bad choice of words to explain the concept. The ghost can present himself one way to the living Jedi and the living Jedi can see the ghost as he wants to see him. It all depends on an agreement of sorts between viewer and viewee. So in this instance, Anakin is presenting himself one way and Luke agrees, choosing to see him in the way that he wants to be presented. But assuming that's not quite right, to quote Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, "Through the Force things you will see. The future. THE PAST. Other places. Old friends long gone." Luke then has a vision of a "city in the clouds" a place he's apparently never been which seems to describe the place that we are introduced to in the very next scene. Alternatively, the essence of his father is with him on Endor and the Force is allowing Luke to visualize him using an image from the past.
And if you really think about it, Hayden as the ghost makes more sense than the ghost as played by Shaw. The Anakin that Luke sees in the 1983 release never existed. Anakin has been scarred and disfigured for the last 20 years. The Shaw ghost is what Anakin might have looked like in the present day had he not been burned. But applying that same rule Shaw Anakin is an Anakin that either the ghost is choosing to present or Luke is choosing to see.