Originally posted by: Owen-Lars-Kenobi
My take on the Biggs/Wedge thing is that the Biggs line should stay. The whole "darn wheres my old buddy, he should be here to help me!" thing works very well for me. This is mainly because I don't think Luke would be counting on wedge to save him, because he hardly knows Wedge. If they knew each other well I think the wedge line would be a good thing. But the Biggs/Luke relationship has a very "I've got your back ' feel to it, and thats the way I think it should be. It works with their implied back story too, and gives Biggs a slightly bigger part, which I feel gives the Biggs scene before they depart more use (I love that scene).

This all depends on whether the Biggs scene in the hangar is included. With the hangar scene, the audience knows who Biggs is and that he's there. So, Luke is wondering when his friend is going to save his butt.

Without the hangar scene, the audience hasn't met Biggs yet. Luke's line comes off as a slightly out-of-place "I wish Biggs were here" yearning. Then latter in the battle, we realize Biggs IS there, when Luke says they're "going in full throttle". Then the auidience gets to have a slight WTF moment, and the whole thing comes off as not feeling right.

So IMO, it all depends on the hangar scene. In the Special Edition, the Biggs line works. In the original version, the mono-mix Wedge line works.