Easterhay said:

Obi-Wan is lying to Luke about his father wanting him to have the lightsabre. Perfectly understandable in the context of what we know now. And isn't the way Alec Guinnes paused before replying to the question "How did my father die?" just perfect? It's as though Lucas had told him the backstory on the quiet.

Whatever you think you see in Ian's performance in ESB, he is actually wearing different makeup than what he wears in ROTS. Believe me, I originally thought it was the same but it really isn't.

And those burn marks on Anakin's head in the unmasking? The entire back of his head is burned; totally consistent with what we see in ROTS.

For me, far from ruining it, the PT actually enriches and deepens the OT.

I'm sorry but you are so wrong. Anakin & Vader were 2 completely separate characters when ANH was being filmed. He didn't decide to combine the two characters until writing the story for ESB. He then had to try and explain Obi-Wans original conversation in ROTJ with the lame "point of view" explanation.

Again when you see Vader unmasked in ESB & ROTJ they are two different types of scaring. In ESB GL was toying with the idea of Vader being a mutant with radiation burns. A production sketch exists showing Vader without the mask and as a mutant. This sketch matches how we see him in ESB.

In ROTJ all he had was 2 scars, no burning at all. So it is in no way consistent with what we see in ROTS

And as for Ian in the 2004 Version of ESB, that is the same make-up as he wore in ROTS. It is exactly the same and was filmed during ROTS. Can you provide the proof that backs up your claims that it was different make-up?

The PT screws with the OT and certainly doesn't deepen and enrich it. All the surprise revelations have been destroyed. If you watch the films in numerical order then we already know that Vader is Lukes Dad, that Leia is Lukes sister, that the little green alien Luke meets is Yoda and so on. Totally destroyed their original impact and the scenes almost become meaningless.