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Scientists discovered that octopuses sometimes punch fish for seemingly no reason at all

If for some reason anybody still thinks this is a stretch, here is George Lucas on The Empire Strikes Back DVD commentary, explaining the moment at the end of the movie when Vader realizes Luke has rejected him and escaped his control: "He's too upset to even bother with killing his subordinates, because we're talking about his son now. So he's conflicted. It's not just hate anymore. There's more to it than that. He's Threepio disassembled." C-3PO's entire ordeal in The Empire Strikes Back is a metaphor for what happens to Darth Vader (and to Luke) in the film. So if C-3PO's physical disassembly and reassembly is a metaphor for Darth Vader's emotional disassembly and reassembly, wouldn't it actually be quite odd if it *didn't* occur to Lucas that C-3PO's *original* assembly *by* Darth Vader might be a golden (!) opportunity for another symbolic connection?

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