That’s Impossible
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| Title: | That’s Impossible |
| Creator: | Tracy Duncan |
| Date(s): | July 1980 |
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| Fandom: | Star Wars |
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That’s Impossible is a 1980 long, detailed essay by Tracy Duncan.
It was published in Against the Sith #8 a few months after the release of The Empire Strikes Back. The topic of the essay was the plot twist in that movie.
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It's the climax of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Darth Vader towers ten feet from Luke Skywalker. Suddenly, he reveals the truth. "I am your father," he tells Luke. The audience gasps—they never knew!
But. . . hmm. . . doesn't this seem to contradict everything Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke? No wonder Luke feels Ben betrayed him. Kenobi lied!
Or so we think at first. But did he really? Perhaps both Kenobi and Vader are telling the truth. It must all work out somehow. . . . Mustn't it? It must, and it does. In fact, we can take this new revelation only one way. We don't even have to wait to learn the an swer from a third film. All we have to do is examine the evidence from both STAR WARS and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and the answer becomes quite apparent. So let's take a look at the question, "Is Vader Luke's father?"
To finish up, one or two more pieces of evidence are available to us, to answer the question, "Is Vader really Luke's father?" We already saw what happened to Kenobi's character if he is lying, or doesn't know anything. He changes from a good and wise warrior to an unconscionable liar or a senile fool. We have to view him in a completely different way, a way that doesn't match up with the Kenobi that exists in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. But what happens to Vader's character if he is lying? Nothing. He already is a liar. Twice he reneged on his agreement with Lando Calrissian. He lies to the Emperor, saying to turn Luke would pro vide both of them with a powerful ally, all the while plotting to overttirow him. Darth Vader is an absolute villain, with a dishonesty that dissipates any nobil ity one wishes to place on him. He is hardly an (lonorable guy. Who should we believe?
"The devil ... is a liar and the father of lies." — John 8:44