Vaderisnothayden said:
Gaffer Tape said:
rcb said:
from wat i understand is that at first, Obi-wan killed luke's father.
Nope, that was never part of the story (that we are aware of), although it would have been a pretty cool reveal. The notion that Obi-Wan killed Luke's father was from the fake page of the script in ESB in order to preserve the true secret from even those who worked on the movie.
Which rubs in just how much it was a SECRET and supposed to be a surprise. That surprise is an important part of ESB. And the point there is that the film sure as hell wasn't designed to be seen after a whole trilogy that tells you Luke's father turns into Vader. Just as it's supposed to be a surprise that the little green guy was Yoda, because the film wasn't designed to be seen after a whole trilogy in which everybody knows Yoda is a little green guy who talks backwards. The OT, contrary to propaganda, was not designed to be seen after watching the prequel trilogy, as one big six-part movie. Obviously, Lucas had some sort of prequel trilogy thought up back then to some extent, but he didn't design the OT to be seen right after it. He designed the OT as if it was intended to be seen without viewing any other Star Wars material before it. (And of course you can bet that whatever PT he had planned back then was damn different from what he ended up with.)
i think GL put the OT first on purpose. this way we got to wonder how the hell anakin became vader. then the PT comes and explains everything.
besides, if the PT came first, we'd be complaining about the OT, that is if it was as big a success as the OT was back then.