I think it's fun imagining how ifferent a feeling Star Wars might have had if the space battle from the ground and the Anchorhead scenes with Biggs and buddies would have been left in. That's just me tho. When I first saw all of that with sound on the Deleted Magic DVD (love love love the thing) I loved being able to see it. I hadn't even known it existed outside the novel.

It obviously seems to be an American Graffiti homage of some sort. Outside that deleted scene, you never get a glimpse of what life was like for Luke on Tatooine. I mean, you barely ever see him work, just eat and clean the droids, then off on an adventure. I personally feel it adds another dimension to Luke and his extremely normal life on Tatooine compared to what he was destined to become.

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