Quote Originally Posted by Derek Metaltron View Post
I don’t see the issue with them fighting before ANH. Doesn’t Vader say ‘We meet again at last?’ That doesn’t mean they might not have clashed before.
That's clearly been the reality of the lore for over 40 years though and how those lines were always meant to be interpreted. That they never saw each other again till ANH. You can work with it via a different interpretation of the lines, but its still a bad idea. It messes up the tension of the Death Star battle. Which, while obviously nothing spectacular in terms of what we got later with the fights, is still classic.