George Lucas explains why Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost was a young Anakin, even though Vader just turned good and saved his son in Return of the Jedi. Join us and find out why!

At the end of Return of the Jedi, we see young Anakin Skywalker appear as a force ghost next to an old Yoda, and an old Obi-Wan Kenobi. Before Hayden Christensen and the prequels came around, Sebastian Shaw was in the film depicting Anakin. Once Hayden became Anakin Skywalker, he was edited into the end of the Original Trilogy. But, why? Why was such a young Anakin put into the film, if both Yoda and Obi-Wan appear in their bodies from when they died?

The answer is given to us by George Lucas himself in an interview with Hayden Christensen. He explained that when you die, your inner person goes back to where you left off in the lightside. So when Vader died, he went back to where Anakin was when he was last in the lightside of the Force.

But, Vader saved Luke. He destroyed the tyrannical Darth Sidious and his Empire, bringing balance to the force. So he died as a good guy right? Well, he was still corrupted by the Dark Side. He let the Dark Side inside for many years. It had consumed him. But Anakin on the other hand, the Chosen One, cunning general of the clone wars, was still in the lightside. Even throughout the times he tapped into the Dark Side, he wasn’t consumed by it until Anakin died, and the consumed Vader was born.

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