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Originally posted by: jimbo
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Originally posted by: Sam_Lu
Yeah Jimbo, inserting a younger Anakin would have made more sense... in your warped little universe where if Lucas digitally replaced Chewie with Jar Jar in the OT, you and your freaky little fanboys would conjure up some bizarre and illogical reason why it makes sense.

Jesus H Jimbo, do you not have a thought process that isn't controlled by Lucas?

If you think about it it really does. A force ghost is suppose to take your last true form. Anakin never looked like that. As Shaw he never had hair or limbs. Logically his ghost should had no limbs and no hair. Plus Obi-wan said the good man who was your father was destroyed. Anakin Skywalker died when he became Vader.

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Anakin may have "died" when he allowed the Vader persona to be dominant, but the Anakin persona resurfaced and was fully reborn with the sheer act saving Luke and self-sacrifice, thus allowing the Anakin persona to be the dominant side once again. Plus it's apparent that Ben was not entirely correct about the Anakin persona being destroyed; it was an strong assumption on Ben's part. And Ben has been incorrect on several occasions; as Ben would put it, "from a certain point of view". It's clear throughout the latter half of ROTJ that Vader was going through an inner struggle regarding Luke.

Logically, the last image Luke saw was the face of an older Anakin (Anakin reborn at this point). Logic applies only in the natural sense and does not apply in the supernatural realm. That which is flesh is flesh; that which is spirit is spirit. Anakin, appearing to Luke in the natural will not retain the exact same physical attributes as Anakin/Vader had last appeared in the natural (e.g. scars, no limbs, hair, etc.), but the true representation of Anakin's spirit is retained; thus Anakin reborn. A familiar spirit will also appear to an individual in a form that would be recognizable. Hayden's image contradicts this; Luke has never seen an image of the Anakin persona in his youth; the last image of Anakin was the elder. Case in point:

1. The spirit of Samuel the prophet appeared to King Saul. Saul, with his natural senses obviously recognized this spirit was Samuel.

2. Jesus, badly beaten, crucified and dies. Jesus reappears to Mary and the disciples and is recognized.

Don't mean to bring the Bible into this, but I am using these as illustrations. Lucas' explanation of the younger Anakin in spirit just doesn't fly.

Kevin