My brother in christ, Lucas in on the record multiple times saying he did the Ewoks because they'd move toys. No one came to censor him. He had merchandizing deals in place before ANH hit the theaters, he was a businessman first.
I know. But I was also talking about the Han shot first thing. The Ewoks were not a censorship issue, Lucas did it because of some Vietcong allegory. But having a clear bad guy who blows people's heads off in cold blood being one of your heroes is something the pearl-clutching atmosphere of the 80s and 90s won't let you put in a movie for kids. And the Special Editions came out at the tail end of the 90s, right before TPM.
Because he is distracting Vader from sensing his own son who is right fucking there, and knows that given Vader has a line on him, the Dark Lord of the Sith will hunt stop at nothing to follow the falcon, hunt him, and go full genocide on any planet they stop at until he's caught. Once he sees Luke has a clear shot to escape, he stops the charade.
My Brother in Christ, Vader doesn't even know that is his son. He doesn't figure it out until AFTER the Death Star was destroyed.
In fact, back in 1977, even Lucas didn't know that was Vader's son, since the line Kenobi said about Vader killing Anakin was still meant to be canon. They only changed that in 1979 when the decision was made that Vader was to be Luke's father. Also, distracting Vader by mind-tricking the Stormtroopers is far more effective, since it would put Vader on the defensive, put the heat off the Falcon crew, allowing Luke and Obi-Wan to escape.
Also, by letting himself get killed, Kenobi made the sacrifice of Leia's crew worthless. They stuck their necks out to get him to join the Alliance and lead it, remember? That's why Leia was over Tatooine in the beginning. It just makes Kenobi look selfish since he wanted to ascend to Jedi Heaven so badly, he used his former apprentice to commit suicide by cop. The Alliance didn't need a ghost whispering into the ear of a young boy, they needed a general and a leader, and that's why Leia tried to get Kenobi in the first place.
Because Luke isn't ready, and Yoda's hoping that if Luke does a stupid thing and heads into the trap, maybe Luke will go full stealth and avoid confronting Vader.
Luke was already warned about the dark side in the cave by showing him his face in Vader's helmet, if that didn't do it I don't think "BTW Vader's your dad" is going to affect anything in a way Yoda wanted it to be affected.
And Luke hearing it from his actual old man was better? Granted, that was a cool moment for us, but it made Yoda look like a colossal fucking idiot. For all Yoda knew, Vader could've captured Luke and told him directly. He was certainly strong enough to do so. If it wasn't for one bottomless pit, Vader would've gotten everything he wanted. And Luke felt betrayed over the Jedi lying to him. If Vader captured Luke, he could've certainly used that to manipulate the boy to come over to his side.
And yes, telling Luke that Vader is his dad would scare the crap out of him and get him to ask questions, like how Anakin was corrupted by the Dark Side. Then Yoda can start monologuing about how corruptive and evil the Dark Side is, about how even a good man like Anakin was corrupted by it and turned into a servant of evil, and how Luke needs more training to resist it. Instead of him still thinking that Vader killed his dad, so he goes off half-cocked to try and avenge his old man while rescuing his friends.
Although it is funny that both the PT and the SWEU retconned Yoda out to have made more than a few key mistakes that cost the galaxy everything, so I suppose Yoda making bad calls just became canon over time.
Because command and control failed. They were ordered to just contain the Rebel's fleet not destroy them so the deathstar could slowly pick them off and drive luke to the darkside with rage. Once the deathstar exploded there was no doubt a lot of imperial vessels that broke and ran and a lot that probably didn't get the "Emp and Vader are dead, stop toying with them, you won't be force choked for blowing up Rebels" memo until it was too late and tide had turned.
They still have enough ships to charge the exhausted and smaller Rebel fleet, a Rebel Fleet that lost two command ships to the Death Star, mind you, so the Imperials could've easily charged the Rebels, destroyed them with superior firepower, then claimed victory over the Rebellion and secured their hold over the galaxy. Then they can anoint a new leader after the dust had settled.
The EU had to make up stuff like how the Imperial commanders in the fleet were all salivating over seizing their own worlds, or how they got too used to Creamy Sheev giving them a boost with Battle Meditation that they started sputtering out of control once they lost that unseen source of nourishment.
At least in ROTS's Battle of Coruscant, the Republic Fleet and the Separatist fleet were of equal strength, so knocking out the leadership for one side allowed the other to win.
The mother fuck have you watched the movies? He says Luke is ready to face Vader, not kill him. One can make a reasonable inference, but Luke did what Yoda trained him to do: he faced Vader but refused to kill him.
Because the implication Yoda made with his tone was that Luke has to kill Vader. Hence why Luke was hesitant. He didn't want to kill his father. If Yoda just said "defeat your father, but don't kill him, the Jedi way is to value all life," Luke wouldn't hesitate, he'd obey without a second thought. Instead, he got cold feet, because what Yoda was implying was that he has to kill his dad. Oh, and in the original plan for the film, Luke is a good boi who follows orders, and he does kill his dad.
That, and Yoda was training Luke to fight against Vader and the Emperor, which basically means that whole "the Force is only for knowledge and defense, never for attack" is BS, since Yoda was training Luke to be a Force battering ram to smash down Vader and the Emperor.
It really just shows to me that a lot of people who hate on the PT for not being the OT have nostalgia goggles on and seem to forget more than a few key details.
Both trilogies have more than a few key plotholes. Both of them had to have said plot holes be plugged up by the SWEU. But they're both still fun, so we put up with it. It's like how Gerald Robotnik in Sonic 3 is not the same guy back in Sonic Adventure 2, but we get double-helpings of Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey, so we don't care.
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