IMHO, adding some shots of the planet surface and the people on it being destroyed will create another problem, which is unfortuantely, I think a problem in the movie itself.

If we create an emotional and dramatic representation of what's going on the surface of the problem, the audience will be emotionally touched by what happens... but this seems to lack amongst the characters in the movie.

Leia's reacton to the destruction of her planet has honoustly always bugged me a little. It didn't detract from the movie, but I've always seemed (since the first time I saw SW) to feel that she was a little emphatic to the situation.

I mean, everyone she once knew is dead. Her mother, father, aunts, uncles, friends, other family, etc... Dead! But that doesn't seem to stop her from uttering some witty banter because the story asks for it. When I would've lost an entire planet of people which had my family on it I would've been pretty down and really depressive I think. In the end she's handing out medals to Luke and Han (and now Chewie too, thanks Ady!!) like it's one of the biggest victories of all time but she's just lost everyone she cared about...

I know that this is Star Wars, but I'm just afraid that stretching the emotional and dramatic aspect of the destruction of Alderaan will only raise the question: "Why does nobody really seem to care after a couple of minutes into the movie after the destruction??"

I love SW, as a movie of course, and I'm just hoping that adding a thing like this wouldn't detract to much from the move and create inconsistencies... Great work on the planet being "eaten" away by the laser, though. I wouldn't mind that being added!!

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.