I'm not so much debating the merit of the scenes as much as I am curious if anyone has tried. I don't have access to the discs right now so I can't give any sort of critical eye as to their shape, but I was still curious. It seems like they would be a valuable resource both for this edit and others.

That said, I just about weep watching the medical center scene and knowing it's cut though. It's probably my favorite moment of straight up human interaction in the movie, and it FELT missing in the finished version of Empire. Not having Luke say that he's leaving makes the whole thing feel sudden and abrupt, and it was one of my biggest qualms with the movie originally. If there was any one thing I wished in Empire Revisited, anything at all, it would be that some version of that scene remained, subtext and the reveal in Jedi be damned.

And no, I don't have ANY illusions that such a thing would happen.