darthmunky said:Bingowings said:
It would be great to see old Ben back on Tatooine where the story began (from a certain point of view) one more time.Shame it couldn't be back at Ben's old hermitage.
Well story-wise, that is where Luke is supposed to have went to build his new lightsaber. Obi Wan had all the parts necessary to build a lightsaber back at his house. I'm not sure if it was in the original script or not but there was a good little paragraph about this in my Star Wars visual dictionary.
There was meant to be a scene at the beginning of the film where we saw Luke finish building his new sabre in a cave on Tatooine.
This matte was painted for that scene.
Here is the prop lightsabre which slides and snaps together :
But it makes cleaner narrative sense to have that scene at Ben's hut, like in the novelisation (for the reasons you state and because it's where Luke started to learn about his father and begin his journey).
The same goes with the ghost scene.