skyjedi2005 said:

I disagree but after all that is my opinion.

Anakin/Vader was done in such a way in return of the jedi to make the audience sympathetic to the character. Not so Hayden Vader who never was a good man or good friend to begin with. He was always a traitorous asshole from episode II onward to III. I have to therefore fly in the face of Lucas continuity and disavow the existence of the prequels because they ruin the original trilogy.

I have to disagree with you there, sky. I don't think that Vader came across as particularly sympathetic in ROTJ. It's interesting that you use the fact that Anakin was a traitorous asshole in the prequel films leading up to ROTS as your reasoning, but was Vader any more of a sympathetic character leading up to ROTJ? And any way you look at it, it's just a big guy in a suit who goes around killing people all the time. Not a bad character, mind you, but someone who gets points for being a badass villain, not a sympathetic protagonist. The emotional resonance in ROTJ is Luke and his desire to make his father better. Vader on his own has really nothing going for him except for one single redemptive act. Luke is the only thing making us care about Vader at all.