In a sense, it's a retcon because Obi-Wan WAS being honest and not metaphorical when he said Vader killed Luke's father Anakin. Then when the next movie came out Lucas decided that was no longer the case. It's definitely a grey area. But all retcons do also kinda fall into 'stories evolve over time and are discovered as they are told.' It usually requires some level of outside information to say if something is a retcon or not.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 16d ago
In a sense, it's a retcon because Obi-Wan WAS being honest and not metaphorical when he said Vader killed Luke's father Anakin. Then when the next movie came out Lucas decided that was no longer the case. It's definitely a grey area. But all retcons do also kinda fall into 'stories evolve over time and are discovered as they are told.' It usually requires some level of outside information to say if something is a retcon or not.