So a character who is Connors boss and is responsible for pushing him to become that monster as well as Peter's transformation indirectly, he doesn't matter at all huh
We SEE the conclusion of that. Connors becomes the monster, and STOPS Dr. Ratha. Then he moves on from that to bigger things -- as his mind becomes more and more corrupted by the Lizard DNA.
Ratha's purpose was to show what Connors was up against as a decent man in a corrupt company run by powerful, unethical men. It was to highlight what not only Connors was up against, but what Richard Parker had been up against as well.
Ratha wasn't as important as you are making him out -- hell, his name wasn't even given in the film. The receptionist says it quickly over the phone, nearly inaudibly when Connors is asking about his wearabouts right before he enters the cab.
Face it, after they cut out his sewer death scene Sony saw no reason to spend money to patch up that plothole with ANY resolution. Ratha was important enough for Lizzy to attack but not important enough to know if he lived or died, got it.
Ratha didn't NEED more resolution. He wanted to do a deplorable thing: secretly administer the OO Vaccine to unsuspecting people. Connors, as the Lizard, stopped him from doing so. That's all we need. He's been stopped. The stuff in the deleted sewer scene doesn't matter because there was nothing in the film that sets it up to the point where we miss it... If it weren't in the marketing material -- you'd be none the wiser.
As far as other editing mistakes, Peter has a magic vanishing backpack as well but that isnt a big deal to me.
Not particularly.
He doesn't have it for the scene with Gwen, when he tells her on the roof that he's Spider-man. Then he jumps off the roof, straight down. We cut to the bridge, then to Captain Stacy leaving his building, then to the bridge and Peter arrives with the back pack.
What stopped him from when he dropped down to land on the same fire escape he entered Gwen's room from, and grab the pack? Something that unimportant doesn't need to be seen.
Same thing in the school. After the fight, he runs to the bathroom and sees Connors' lab coat. We don't see him go directly into the sewer. Nothing stopped him (while the film cuts to the students and EMT's outside of the school) from going into the hall and grabbing his pack.
-R