Originally posted by queeq
How's that possible?
If Lucas plays his cards right for the OT then Vader either doesn't know he has kids ("I knew, like the Emperor did, that if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a theat to him."- OB1) or he kept it from Palpy. The latter I think is a tad impossible, because since Vader was so eager to find Skywalker in ESB, he might as well have grabbed him when he was a kid to train him as a Sith Jedi or something. Unless he always had this plan with Luke to rule the universe together.
Anyway, that's all too complex for SW. I simply think Vader will never know about his kids until sometime between ANH and ESB.
Well, when you put it like that queeq, I have to agree with you 👆
Well all know it is going to be the first, queeq- it is the circumstances of that we are interested in. If Padme is pregnant during the film (and in any case we know the twins are born) then the possiiblities are that Anakin is pretty unobservant, he does not see her for most of the film, or he believe the kids died- in childbirth, or with their mother.