Originally Posted by KillerRabbit
2) Luke throws away his light saber and acknowledges Vader as a Jedi and as his father.

Redemption for Darth Vader? Vader? The guy chokes people to death when they annoy him. He cut off the hand of his child. Hell, he dresses in black and his face looks like a skull. He's evil!

But the redemption story was so satisfying.
Well ... it was, when we were kids ...
Question is: Is it still?

Bcs honestly, to me, its not ...
The only thing Vader did was that he killed the Emperor (except he didnt as we know now) ... wich he was supposed to do anyway. But since he didnt do it for power, but with "noble goal" to save his son (person he felt personally attachet to) ... decades of all sort of evil deeds are supposed to be erased like none of those ever happened?

We cant even say that he sacrificed for Luke ... he simply tryed to save him and it backfired horribly ... i mean, yes it resulted in his death, but i doubt that was intentional.

Fun part is that we dont really know what he would do if Emperor wouldnt inflict tose mortal wounds:
Maybe he would leave with Luke help him rebuild Jedi order and spend rest of his life teaching young students about dangerous temptations of the Dark Side ...
Maybe he would leave with Luke ... but keep tempting him with Dark Side for the rest of his life ...
Maybe he would sieze the opourtunity that Emperor just weakened Luke, kill him right there and finaly proove that he actually is a Dark Lord ...
Maybe he would just stay there to rule, but let Luke escape ...
And maybe something entirely different. laugh

The situation, when you think about it, would allow him all and many more ... maybe he wasnt redeemed at all ... maybe he was just dying man, who finaly realized that he is done and any potential achievment seemed meaningless in that light, and so he instead decided to enjoy what was left for him.
Just a thought smile

Its funny how things get different perspectives as we grow older ... i used to chher for Luke when he blow the Death Star ... now i realize there was thousands innocent engineers, programators, soldiers, officials, janitors or cantina workers ... just doing their jobs.
Basicaly, Luke is a terrorist!

Last edited by RagnarokCzD; 07/03/23 09:14 AM.

I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. frown
Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are! frown