Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Every Deleted Scene Ranked From Worst To Best
10. Paige's Gun Jams
As the title implies, this short clip gives us more of Paige Tico in action, showing the doomed heroine struggling to fire her gun at a couple of incoming First Order TIE Fighters.
The opening bombing run is well-structured - and it works - because it keeps the focus on the Resistance's effort to destroy the First Order Dreadnought. Cutting away to a mini-battle like this would mess up that focus and disrupt the flow of the entire sequence.
Once again, this is just unnecessary (you're going to hear that a lot in this list, so brace yourself!). We learn everything we need to know about Paige from her introduction in the final cut; she's scrappy, determined, and her necklace is very, very important to her.
This beat wasn't needed, and Johnson definitely made the right call here.