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Empire Strikes Back's Fake Twist Would Have Made Star Wars Much Darker

posted 2 years ago by TMC-4 (20304)
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https://screenrant.com/empire-strikes-back-obi-wan-twist-change-star-wars/

The Empire Strikes Back had a fake twist to preserve the secrecy of Luke's parentage, but if it'd been used, the Star Wars saga would be much darker.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

I think they went with the right plot twist.

[–] MiamiFootball001 (82) 2 years ago

I mean, I feel like Kenobi killing Anakin would have been more compassionate than cutting his legs off and leaving him to literally burn in a lake of fire....