Scenes of a group of Senators (including Padme) planning on organizing an Alliance to prevent the Chancellor from receiving any more executive powers were cut, they featured a young Mon Mothma. They were cut in order to achieve more focus on the story of Anakin.[1] George Lucas wrote early drafts of the script in which a 10-year-old Han Solo appeared, but the role was never cast or shot. However, the Millennium Falcon makes an appearance in the scene in which Anakin and Obi-wan return to Coruscant, seen as a small ship that is docking in the same port as theirs. The scene where Yoda arrives on Dagobah to begin his self-imposed exile was also cut, but is featured in a deleted scene in the DVD release, though producer Rick McCallum has stated that he hopes Lucas may include it to the theatrical release when and if he releases a 6 episode DVD box set.[1]
Many Order 66 scenes were cut. The deaths of Barriss Offee and Luminara Unduli were either cut from the film or never filmed in the first place. The death scene of Shaak Ti aboard the Invisible Hand (which can be viewed in the DVD deleted scenes section) is non-canon, as Lucas has confirmed that the character met her end later in the film at the hands of Vader, during the attack on the Jedi Temple.
Bai Ling filmed minor scenes for the film playing the role of a senator, but her role was cut during editing. She claimed this was because she posed for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie's May release, but Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier, and that he had cut his own daughter's scenes as well.[24]
I can totally believe that GL was dumb enough to write the original script with baby Han Solo.
All he did to write the script was go down the character dossier from the OT and try to find a way to include every single person in a younger form.
All of these scenes, too, only explain the intuitive. The origins of the rebel alliance do no need an introduction nor explaination. The entire OT we never knew WHY they were fighting, we just accepted the idea that the Empire was bad and ran with it.
Same goes for Yoda and Dagobah. We are perfectly capable of understanding that Yoda goes to Dagobah without seeing it! Didn't this guy go to film school or something? How could he possibly thought that any of these scenes were good ideas???
The millenium falcon cameo, in my opinion, was perfectly acceptible because it was so subtle.
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This post has been edited by Just another wretched fan: 08 June 2006 - 11:57 PM