To be completely honest, I didn't even know you made this thread until now and it wasn't until I googled something I saw it. Won't lie, I considered making a topic like this a few times, but I guess now I don't have to! Anyway, here's mine, it's actually one I have talked about in one of my own threads before in another post:
The Jabba Scene in Star Wars Episode IV.
So this was a deleted scene initially that was later added to the movie and it's just a scene of Jabba and his bounty hunters confronting Han about his cargo, why he killed Greedo, and Han negotiating with him. This scene in my opinion should've stayed excluded because:
1. It's not really needed because Jabba just reiterates on what Greedo already said earlier and him asking about why he killed Greedo and what they negotiated doesn't really add much to the story.
2. Why did he go outside of his palace to speak to him? That just seems a little out of character for him if you ask me.
3. For people who have not seen the movies before and want to start with the original trilogy, it just takes away from the mystery of who Jabba is and makes his appearance in Episode VI a bit less surprising. All for a scene that's not really needed...
I don't outright hate this scene, but it's just pointless and you're really not missing out on much by leaving it out because the story would go just fine without it. It's weird to me how George Lucas thought it was necessary to include this, yet he left out the
probe droid scene in Episode I because he thought they didn't need it. However, it provided some needed context for why they were running later, which the film didn't really provide enough of an explanation on for some people due to the scenes exclusion. How that probe droid scene didn't make the cut, but this pointless Jabba scene did, is unclear to me.