wow...i dunno...thats the one aspect that really took star wars to another level - from a electrifying, enchanting and engrossing fantasy to an all-time great saga. not unlike the beatles with beatlemania and then coming out with revolver and rubber soul.

oh, man, I dunno...it would have been really difficult to picture luke still thinking vader had good in him at the start of jedi.

maybe....maybe the forgiveness angle could have been pulled off at the end of jedi. But not the benefit of the doubt part. Unless there was more footage of yoda and ben talking ot luke.

sadly, lucas would not have been able to pull this off.

hmm...maybe this would be the premise of the third trilogy - forgiveness, truth and reconciliation! have it take place say 500 years after ROTJ. The skywalker family (still need these guys to make star wars) has grown and dissapated in the years since but something (plot device) causes them to come together and come to terms with the revelation that their most famous ancestor was a mass murderer. luke redeemed him in OT...but there is still the aftermath and fallout.

lemme guess...there is already an EU story like this? :(