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Yeah, I get what you're saying. I guess since I read the book, I knew who he was and didn't really need the scene. My problem was that Luke barely mentions him at the start of the film("That's what you said when Biggs and Tank left."). So I imagined that most people would forget that line.Now suddenly there's this guy being all buddy buddy with Luke, and we're grasping for straws trying to figure out who he is. The scene is still the best addition in 97, being as it's the only thing that added any real value to the film. Did Lucas every give any explanation to it being cut?
In the commentary on the 2004 New Hope , Lucas says he cut out all the early footage of Luke in Anchorhead with his friends, because he never really liked it and he wanted to focus on telling the story through the droids eyes and not Luke's, although I do like the inclusion of the Biggs Yavin scene if only for the fact that it ties in with the novel and radio-drama, and it does lend weight to luke's reaction when he dies.