I finally finished watching all of deleted magic last night, thanks again ocp, I really enjoyed it. Cutting the other footage and info in while the movie soundtrack continued to play was just genius. Great stuff.
Gotta say, the original ending it is deasd right that Luke's shot has very little impact, you feel he could go back and take another 20 runs at it until he got it right, whereas with the DS about to fire on the rebel base, it ramps the excitement up immeasurably.
Unfortunately the 'lost cut' with all the wordiness and lack of multiple tension lines feels a lot like the prequels..