When I was a kid and watching Stars Wars for the
first time, Darth Vader was the epitome of the Evil Bad Guy. Even after the
twenty-seventh viewing, my opinion was unchanged – Darth was a bad dude and
deserved everything he got.
Then came the second movie of the series and the
bombshell near the end of the film that Darth was actually Luke’s real father!
The explosive gasp in the theater almost blew the exit doors off their hinges.
Gasp, not gas, despite the theater being filled to capacity with 15- to 18-year-olds. The last shocker was finding out the Leia and Luke were twins, making
Darth Vader the father of twins. I don't know how I made it through the next
two years until the third film.
