Every hear people tell old war stories? Well, when someone isn’t around to check them, they often embellish and skew things. I wish people would stop taking every word that every characters says as 100% accurate. People don’t talk that way. Memories fail, things get forgotten or mis remembered, and some people just plain make things up. Like Vader betraying and murdering Luke’s father. Whatever Bail told Leia was close enough to the truth, but what she said doesn’t have to be the literal history.
Exactly.
George once described the key differences between the two:
“I didn’t want to do the craziness or, as someone once described it, the ‘effervescent giddiness’, of the first film. I knew the story eventually had to go to a dark place, so I purposely darkened it down. I realised early on that the original trilogy was a plot driven, fable. The new trilogy is a history, a backstory, a personal dossier of all these characters.”
The Prequels are the more exact facts of what happened during the rise of the Empire and Anakin’s fall and the Originals are more relying the history of what happened from different points of view to Luke and everyone else. It will get muddled as twenty years takes place between the two trilogies. Only R2-D2 knows exactly what happened.