eiyosus said:
Actually, my favorite scene in the entire PT, hands down, is the deleted scene of the little girls playing with R2. The only damn scene in three movies with any heart, and it gets cut.
The deleted scenes with Padme's family are like the deleted scenes with Biggs and the Tosche Station gang - they help flush out a character a little more. In Star Wars we don't really need them; the Binary Sunset scene and prior dinner scene are all we need to understand Luke's frustrations and motivations. But in Clones such scenes are badly needed.