I’ve never thought it a good choice to have Poe just show up during the Resistance X-Wing scene on Takodana, so I took him out. I utilized an unused scene from the trailers, rearranged other scenes that were removed when Poe flies around blasting Ties and added a bunch of sound fx to blend it together.
Very nice clip. As I already described at length over at your fanedit(.)org thread, I liked this idea when ‘Noodle_Finger’ removed both the Poe cockpit shots from his early TFA edit too - it certainly works for anyone wishing to hold off Poe’s ‘surprise’ survival a little later until Finn spots him at the rebel base.
But I’d be content to keep his initial X-wing cockpit reveal for myself, as long as that next damned ‘whooping’ shot of his is discarded…due to the fact that Finn ‘whoops’ just before too. We already know that Poe is the fancy flyer that Finn is praising, without seeing Poe ‘whooping’ straight afterwards too! Things flow and sound great without it, I reckon.