In a case like that, you want them to believe you have some emotions - sometimes they are a bit of a performance. Regardless, it was a good call. I'm a Jedi, and whatever the mistakes of the Old Order, Palpatine's slaughter was precisely that - a slaughter.
In some ways, yes, in others no. It depends on the thing. But for what I lived, that's true enough I suppose. The books lend a certain objectivity that living through something does not. I realised that when I got gifted with ten years of memories I'd read through.