- Post
- #663458
- Topic
- Making of Return of the Jedi (the book) Thread
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/663458/action/topic#663458
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DuracellEnergizer said:
ATMachine said:
TOSCHESTATION on the TFN forums pointed out that early on in the book, Rinzler digs up a snippet of plot notes by Lucas which appear to be "pre-Empire":
"The Emperor is the evil one - he kills Luke's father. Vader begs Luke to kill him - he does."
These notes would appear to come from the liminal stage between ANH and ESB, when Lucas was reconsidering both the backstory of Father Skywalker and the notion that Vader was a dyed-in-the-wool irredeemable villain. But the obvious solution--to combine the two ideas into Father Vader--hadn't quite gelled yet.
Hmm ... interesting. IMO, this only makes Georgey's failure to create complex villains for the PT all the more pathetic.
Eh, what!?