I felt both the screenplay and the novelization were better because they left the deleted scenes intact, which helped make the story make sense. If they just kept them in the movie even though the film would have been three hours long but more comprehensible. we have sat through three 3 hour lord of the rings movies, one star wars 3 hour movie would've been great even if some of the scenes would've brought the film an R rating or slowed down the pace of the film. The film should have been more important than the kiddies it was a pg-13 that just barely dodged the bullet of getting an R, or the advertising like action figures etc.

Lucas may be a shrewd businessman for trying to make tons of money on the toys market, but that certainly does'nt give him good filmaker status, he lost that after return of the jedi.