fishmanlee said:

vote_for_palpatine said:

All right. If someone has addressed this before, I apologize for fobbing this off as original thought. To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been discussed before in any SW forum I've been to.

ESB: Vader wants Luke Skywalker desparately. He is using a ton of Imperial resources to track down this one guy. (Of course, we do not yet know about their blood ties) True, finding Skywalker means finding the Rebels, but the course of the movie makes clear that finding the Rebel base is the second bird - Vader's one stone is aimed at Luke. (If that weren't the case, why did not Vader's ship try to follow the Rebel fleet out of Hoth instead of the Millennium Falcon?)

he didnt know luke was his son ye- oh wait it says so in the crawl

Your post seems to be designed to cut my argument down at the knees. So let's look at your post:

"he didn't know luke was his son yet" is not what I said in the first place. I said "we do not yet know" as in "we the audience". Please read more carefully in the future.

Then you say that the blood relation is established in the crawl. What, this crawl? (from imdb.com)

Title card/crawl: It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space...

What there says Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father? If by that you are implying the question, "Why else would he be searching so intensely?", I am obliged to reply, "So I supppose by that logic that Jabba the Hutt must be Han Solo's father."

Thanks for playing though.