Why was it unexpected that Darth Vader would tell Luke he is his Father?

[needscoffee]

@needscoffee

So we’re putting spoilers right in the thread title now? Sheesh!

@cochrane

For a 40 year old movie?

@SlackerInc

I like to point out when people say “you can’t spoil a X-year-old movie/TV show” that, just as the XKCD comic noted, there are always younger people coming up in the pipeline who have not yet experienced the thing in question.

It was a joke. Maybe there’s an XKCD comic for that…