@poppasketti
Well for me it would either be a drastic restructuring like I suggested above, or…
What you just proposed. A simple edit.
I think it would fix a huge majority of the movie’s most glaring problems, with the smallest amount of effort required.
I think Leia’s spacewalk is one of the biggest factors of people losing the plot in the theaters. It’s just so dumb…
I haven’t encountered a single person in my circle who liked it. Most either disliked it, or outright hated it.
I think this would be the quickest change anyone should do when starting an edit of this movie. Blow that piece of junk… OUT OF THE SKY!
One idea I had for a radical restructure is using TFA Restructured as a base, and instead of having the opening attack on the dreadnought in TLJ, have the attack everyone is infuriated about be the destruction of Starkiller Base and the Republic. Leia can still be pissed at Poe for the loss of life, and he can still be cocky about it, since he destroyed the superweapon. Either way, it’s going to be really fun to play around with both films.