Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
And Anakin's "redemption" at the end makes much more sense when he finally gets the courage to stand up to his master for the right reasons rather than finally enacting his generation-long mutiny plans, which just happen to be for the right reasons.

The redemption of Anakin at the end is actually a "resurrection" now. George changed his mind (due to his simplistic understanding of Buddism) and decided that an evil man can never be redeemed. Instead, a good man can be randomly and illogically replaced by an evil man (in his head or something) and then that evil man can be randomly and illogically re-replaced by the first, good man, so long as he has a child who is willing to try and reason with the bad man that has replaced him in a way that . . . .

I give up.

Your points about Vader being totally loyal to Palpatine are correct though, Gaffer. If George had intended Vader to perhaps be rebellious in Empire, he had totally erased that concept for Jedi. We can only conclude that Vader was lying to Luke or, at the most, that he was expressing wishes that could not be fullfilled (because of his level of enslavement).