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[The Force Awakens & The Last Jedi (spoilers)] Why didn't vader appear to Kylo and try to talk to him?

I mean we see at the end of ROTJ Vader is capable of becoming a force ghost. Why hasn't he come to see Kylo and tell him to stop his bullshit? We've seen Yoda come to Luke talk, its clear that Kylo is obsessed with Vader talking to his partially destroyed helmet and trying to be like him. So if Vader came back to the light side and became Anakin Skywalker why not try to reason with Kylo at any point? Especially when he was going to blow up the ship Leia was on? After killing Snoke and claiming the title of supreme leader? Hell even when he went to confront Luke? So many prime oppprtunites before or around those times? Seems like Anakin is a bit of a slack grandfather.
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That wasn't *Vader.* That was Anakin.

Anakin gave up being Darth Vader before he died. That was the whole point of why he turned against the Emperor in the first place. He gave up the power of the dark side, recognized its power but rejected it - and that's why he was able to become a Force ghost in the first place.

As for why *Anakin* didn't reach out to Ben, we don't know. Perhaps he couldn't. The only time we see ever Jedi Force ghosts interact with people, it's with people they knew in life.

For another reason, perhaps he *wasn't* able to, because of Snoke's power and influence over him. We know that Yoda was unable to approach Luke because he cut himself off from the Force - perhaps Snoke's power extended in such a way that Anakin wouldn't have been able to reach out even if he had ever manifested as a Force ghost after Endor (which there's currently no evidence of, anyway).