Besides, half the SE changes are cool. That giant half buried ship that’s at a 70 degree angle in Mos Eisley is cool.
Also, the restoration of that one Biggs scene towards the end (gotta love Biggs).If only Lucas had thought to reincorporate the earlier Biggs scenes along with it. Then its inclusion might work instead of feeling tacked on and incongruous.
How does it feel tacked on? If anything it makes the Trench run part flow more smoothly by fixing up the Biggs/Wedge nonsense.
It’s also just a nice little moment in itself, since Luke talks about Biggs on Tatooine, even in the final cut.But even though I don’t see any "tacked on"ness, I do agree that he should have went all out and added back in the Tosche station bits.
And I’m not sure why he cut out the older Rebel pilot talking about Anakin, because it fits if that guy was around when Anakin was a General.Incorporating the cut Tatooine scenes would do more to rewrite canon than anything else that has ever happened. Have you listened to the dialog lately? There are some major issued with that and where the saga went (even just in the OT). The only reasons those scenes even got shot was because they didn’t take a lot of setup and were the first things they shot in Tunesia. They were cut before the rought B&W cut was ever done. Lucas had been talked into writing those scenes because of his friends and what he wanted was the droids to lead us to Luke, then Ben, then Han, then back to the Princess and those scenes didn’t fit. They were filler and were dropped. And Red Leader’s missing lines about knowing Anakin would not make sense with how the PT did things.
I’m not sure, but I thought he cut those scenes after getting spooked because Spielberg or somebody called them “American Graffiti in space”.
And the Rebel pilot dialogue would fit, since
- The timeline roughly matches to where he could have been a teen in the Clone War and have seen General Skywalker in action
- He wouldn’t know that he became Vader