joshua77 said:

I agree that it does have nice symmetry, and it would work well, if not for the earlier reveal that Vader is already “obsessed” with Luke. In fact, if you think it about it too hard (which we all clearly have) it starts to seem like the evil Emperor, who meticulously plotted his rise to power, started an intergalactic war to help him along and even (possibly) manipulated the Force into conceiving his own apprentice, has clearly lost a step or two if it takes him three years to find out who blew up his big 20-year long construction project a couple days after it was finished!

LOL. Yes, clearly Palpatine isn't as sharp as he used to be.