oh_riginal said:
Assuming that Yoda and Obi Wan are dressed in the same clothes they had on when they died, then logically, shouldn't Vader appear the same?
Darth Solo said:
Actually, that last mockup with Vader there, even though that maybe a p*** take, thats how the jedi looked the moment they passed over.
I prefer to think of The Force as the mystical presence described in Eps 4-5 rather than the retarded midi-chlorians concept later introduced into the saga, so I don’t like the idea of “physics of The Force” laws such as “A Jedi who passes over gets an appearance in the afterlife that is how they look when they died.”
The way I figure it, they’re not present in such a physical sense. Their appearance is a function of a projection of Luke’s mind, not photons hitting Luke’s retinas.
Luke would see Anakin as Shaw, not as Christensen, but as an idealized version of Shaw, with Jedi robes and hair, rather than the actual Shaw he had seen earlier, with sores, burns, and Vader’s distinctive black armor.