Then why would she say “There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth to him, I raised him. I can’t explain what happened.” Rather than “His father left (or died) before he was born”, or “His father was a spacer passing through and I never saw him again”, or something like that.
If you take the new EU novels as canon, you could argue that Anakin’s father was Darth Plagueis, who had been experimenting with creating life through the Force around the time of Anakin’s conception.
I’m not convinced this is what Anakin’s Mom meant
Then why would she say “There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth to him, I raised him. I can’t explain what happened.” Rather than “His father left (or died) before he was born”, or “His father was a spacer passing through and I never saw him again”, or something like that.
If you take the new EU novels as canon, you could argue that Anakin’s father was Darth Plagueis, who had been experimenting with creating life through the Force around the time of Anakin’s conception.