peterjackoff

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/22/star-wars-force-awakens-jj-abrams-deleted-scenes

Basically JJ. says stuff like Maz giving Luke's lightsaber to Leia and other bits were simply cut off from the final film "for no particular reason" other than deciding it worked better that way during editing.

Thinks like the Constable Zuvio not intervening during Rey altercations at Jakku's market etc were simply dropped in the final film to make it "shorter and better"

So stuff that were in the early leaks, such as Luke saying the infamous "my baby girl" or the lightsaber floating around or Mat explaining how she obtained the lightsaber or giving it back to Leia in person etc COULD have been true, all