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Originally Posted by blankall
Also, revealing Vader's face in Episode VI was pure genious, and one of the greatest movie moments of all time. It not only showed that "Vader" had been defeated but revealed the false promises of the Dark Side in an extremely effective way. That moment is the conclusion of the entire trilogy.
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Have to disagree here, the reveal is one of the reason's the third film is far weaker than the first two. The ravaged look of the Emperor and the confinement of Vader to his mask was more than enough to show the perils of following the Dark Side, and really, the "false promises" of power weren't at all false - Obi-Wan was a hermit on some obscure desert planet and Yoda lived in the jungle with the monkeys, while the Emperor ran the whole galaxy and Vader was his right-hand man.
"*I* am your father" was a great movie moment, seeing Vader's fat pasty face was not. A far better ending would have been him attacking the Emperor in the penultimate scene (preferably before 10 minutes or whatever it was of "Die! Die Skywalker! *zzzzzt* *zzzzzt* Die some more! *zzzzt*") and being killed by him but allowing Luke to kill the Emperor in turn. How sweet would have a 2 on 1 Vader/Luke vs Emperor light sabre battle have been? But no, Lucas wanted to tell a vapid story of death-bed repentance instead, incidentally making his supposed hero merely a catalyst for events instead of the instigator thereof.