Even if you have no reaction from either side, the fuel issue would work in tandem with the visual cue of being surrounded by black holes. Why have we never seen “low fuel” as a plot device before?
Ric Olie:
There’s not enough power to get us to Coruscant…the hyperdrive is leaking.
Qui-Gon Jinn:
We’ll have to land somewhere to refuel and repair the ship.
Because everyone assumes that a ship capable of light speed travel has no issue with energy supply. The rationale is that the fuel is low due to the environment. The black holes become the impetus for Poe’s mutiny even though we don’t say it, in true Star Wars style of exposition by sight.
You can go way back as far as A New Hope; right before all the ships take off to attack the Death Star, you see people detaching fuel lines from the ships before take off.
Also not quite sure what you mean by “true Star Wars style of exposition by sight”. Did everyone in the Falcon during the asteroid sequence never mention a word about the asteroids and its danger? 3PO goes out of his way to tell us just how dangerous it is. So yes, I still think it would be a very tough fan edit to pull off because there’s zero mention about the system or area being dangerous because of black holes and no where in the Star Wars movies are black holes ever an issue (except for the time Han mentions making the jump to lightspeed is dangerous without precise calculations because you could ligthspeed right into a supernova).
Poe still opines that they are in great danger, but as the film presently runs, there is no indication of that. Having this element would just make the existing plot more believable with visual cues.
But the danger is present; you see ships that actually lose fuel begin to drift aimlessly through space into the trap of the First Order’s barrage of fire.