DarkFather said:

EU excuses. The reality is that ROTS was at odds with the OT here, just as the PT is often at odds with the OT.

EU Reasons. In this case, it makes sense, I like it, so I am willing to accept it.

An EU excuse would be to say that Leia remembering her mother in detail is a result of Padme creating a Force connection with her daughter.

I consider that stuff bullshit designed to pretend that Lucas didnt criminally disrespect the OT in the PT. We shouldn't need EU to fix up Lucas's messes. Those messes shouldn't be there in the fist place and if they need explanations the explanations should be in the films.

Another example is the Ruusan reformation. In the OT it was said that the Jedi had been protectors of the republic for a thousand generations, which means about 25 thousand years. In the prequels Palpatine says the republic had been around for a thousand years. Big screwup. So the EU invented the Ruusan reformation and explained that Palpy was just talking about the republic since the reformation. They needed to do that or else a lot of the EU would be fucked. But them providing an explanation doesn't change the fact that Lucas screwed up. Before he wrote the prequels, he should have watched the OT very carefully, jotting down everything that was said or implied about the backhistory and then made sure to fit in his prequel story with that.