Empire Strikes Back Foreshadowed Darth Vader’s Redemption In The Best Possible Way

Darth Vader shockingly redeemed himself in Return of the Jedi, but it was The Empire Strikes Back that set up the possibility by defying Sith norms. As Yoda said, “always two there are; a master and an apprentice.” Palpatine expanded on this principle of the Rule of Two, proclaiming that the master possess the power and the student is the one to crave it. The relationship between Vader and Palpatine embodied all of that and more, with both knowing the former could never truly usurp his master given the physical limitations that hindered him.