# "No, Luke. \*I\* am your father." Why did we buy it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983 "2013-02-01T00:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/81 "2013-02-10T03:33:25Z")
What on earth was Lucas’ reasoning there? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/82 "2013-02-10T10:40:15Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > What on earth was Lucas’ reasoning there? So that no one could give away the ending prematurely? Or “You’re really Obi-wan’s bastard child?” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/83 "2013-02-10T12:34:00Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Nitpick she said “you served my father” and she was talking about Bail Organa(Jimmy Smitts in the PT) not Anakin. Yeah, I know. My point was that that line told us there had been something called the Clone Wars in the past, which meant there were clones, which meant Vader was probably a clone of Luke’s dad. I’m glad to see from this thread that we weren’t alone in that conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/84 "2013-02-10T12:46:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > So that no one could give away the ending prematurely? Or “You’re really Obi-wan’s bastard child?” :dubious: Or, just maybe, Lucas himself was unsure at that point which direction the series would take. Considering all the creepy inconsistencies that emerged later, this is far from impossible. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/85 "2013-02-10T12:53:04Z")
Sorry if someone else posted this above: A friend of mine though Luke was DV’s clone. At the time (just after ESB was released) , I thought it was in interesting theory. Brian ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/86 "2013-02-18T16:34:22Z")
I totally bought it. Vader was about the right age, and you can see the strong family resemblance. Maybe Jar Jar is Luke’s real father. Think about that. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983/87 "2013-02-18T17:59:06Z")
So how would you phrase this? “Your father Anakin Skywalker went apeshit crazy on the darkside, a common risk of being a jedi(maybe the force is mentally unsettling?) and killed billions of people including small children and your mother who he choked with the force until her trachea broke or something. Then I had a sword fight with him and chopped off his limbs and left him for dead on the edge of a lava flow hoping he’d burn to death in agony. So Luke wanna become a jedi and travel with me?” :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-luke-i-am-your-father-why-did-we-buy-it/648983.md?page=4)