I totally meant to do that

The highlighted quote is what first caught my attention in this section. I haven't included the evidence that followed this, put basically it just claims that there is plenty of evidence proving that Lucas did not, in fact, originally plan for Darth Vader to be Luke's father. This whole exchange made me wonder, how much of what we consider to be "genius" or a huge twist is actually intended? A lot of what I write (okay, maybe not a lot, but a decent bit) in stories or in essays is on accident, but then I end up getting praised like I meant to do it, so I just say, "yeah, I definitely meant to do that." This seems like a very similar, albeit to a much smaller scale, situation.