Pardon my ignorance, but can someone explain the significance of the changes to the Emperor scene in ESB?
I’ve watched the original and the '04 version – I just now noticed the “the young rebel who destroyed the Death Star” line, but I’m not really getting what the issue with the changes are. From what I gathered, Palpy mentioning that Luke is Anakin’s offspring works just as well as just saying “the son of Skywalker”, in the modern world. In 1980, the scene made sense as is – we didn’t know yet that Vader is Anakin.
Granted, for those who will never watch the prequels, this change ruins the big twist that everyone and their mother knows by now…
Can someone dumb it down?