brash_stryker said:

asterisk8 said:

The Emperor would know about Luke Skywalker by this point. He's the guy that blew up the friggin Death Star. Word gets around.

I'm not entirely convinced of this, considering the Rebels are an underground group in hiding and trying to keep the location of their base (and presumably anything that could connect them to the Rebels - e.g. their names and involvement) a secret.

Ultimately it doesn't make a difference in the context of the line anyway. Even if he does know his name, it doesn't automatically mean he'd refer to him by it. The Emperor might be more grandiose than that. I think saying "Young Skywalker" rather than Luke suits him. Very theatrical.

Makes no difference to me either way.

We discussed this topic several times on this thread......so going by the original versions of the films (and not the Ian McDiarmid SE version) the Emperor, Vader and the Galaxy well knows the name of the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star,....Vader & Palps both know who's son he is....

There is a disturbance in the Force......suddenly somewhere in the Galaxy there is something happening,....Luke is in training with a Jedi Master, the vibrations of this event is like a fly on a spiders web

We have a new enemy.....Luke Skywalker is a potential threat,...to upset the Sith's control of the Galaxy

The new dialogue of the SE throws this concept out the window, Palps only then knows the name of the Rebel & Vader pretends not to, even though the opening crawl says Vader was obsessed in finding young Skywalker