Posted by skunksmokinsnoogans at 205.165.42.67 on July 31, 2002 at 11:01:43:
In Reply to: Alternative ending to The Empire Strikes Back posted by Booboo_Kittiefukk on July 31, 2002 at 05:18:45:
: Here's a little something I received in my email. Thought you all might enjoy it ^_^
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: > Alternative ending to The Empire Strikes Back
: >
: >
: >
: >A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE
: >SKYWALKER toward the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off
: >Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs
: >away. He looks round, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
: >
: >LUKE: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
: >
: >DARTH VADER: No! I am your father!
: >
: >LUKE: No, it's not true! It's impossible.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
: >
: >LUKE: NO!
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that brass
: >droid of yours?
: >
: >LUKE: Threepio?
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was seven years old.
: >
: >LUKE: No!
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself,
: >no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp.
: >
: >LUKE: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
: >
: >DARTH VADER: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly
: >destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
: >
: >LUKE: Well, it's not my fault.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Oh, here we go. 'Poor me, my father never gave me what I
: >wanted for my birthday, boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith..
: >waahhh wahhh!
: >
: >LUKE: Shut up.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had
: >exterminated the Jedi knights!
: >
: >LUKE: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon...
: >
: >DARTH VADER: Oh, for the love of the Emperor, 10 years old, winner of >the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here >baby!
: >
: >Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: I was wrong. You're not my kid. I don't know whose you are,
: >but you sure ain't mine.
: >
: >Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the >shaft. Darth Vader looks down after him.
: >
: >DARTH VADER: And get a haircut!