re: Serious Star Wars Continuity Question

One more thing illustrating why this works for the original trilogy but not the prequels: In Jedi after Luke turns himself in, he and Vader are speaking on Endor and Luke tells him that he still feels the good in him. Vader responds "Its to late for me, my son." This implies that Vader doesn't have a choice. That doesn't sound like someone who is trying to recruit his son to overthrow the a-hole who lied about his family. In the context of the original trilogy, it works just fine, because we dont know about Padme, and theres no reason to believe Vader has any external issues with Palpatine until he throws him into the Death Star reactor.