Interesting to see the varied opinions on Leia’s ‘Force swoop’ scene on the previous page.

Although it happens to be a sequence I’d prefer to EXCLUDE from my own cutlist, I think I know how it could be made to work a bit better overall in it’s existing form - After I initially thought we’d seen a sad end for Leia when she was sucked out of the bridge by the explosion (which turned out to be merely a ‘misdirection’)…we then moved onto a scene of 'Kylo being told to return by Hux’s hologram…and then moved onto ANOTHER scene which involved ‘Hux on his bridge’…BEFORE we reverted back to seeing Leia floating away from her ship, and then reviving, and then doing her ‘Force swoop’ back to the ship.

Ignoring the manner in which her ‘Force power’ was visualised in the first place, I think it’s the fact that we were DISTRACTED AWAY FOR SO LONG from her being sucked out into space, which made her ‘revitalised’ appearance seem somewhat ‘jarring’ - She’d been out in the coldness of space for quite a while by this point, and because we were shown TWO different sequences before we returned to her ‘revival’, I think that made it seem a little belated.

So I reckon that Leia’s ‘Force power’ sequence would have worked a bit better if there had only been ONE scene shown before we returned to her ‘survival’ moment - the ‘Kylo being told to return by Hux’s hologram’ one…WITHOUT involving the second scene of ‘Hux on his bridge’ beforehand too, so that we weren’t taken away from what was happening with Leia for SO LONG.

Just a thought for anyone wishing to keep the ‘Force swoop’ in their own cutlist, as it should be easy enough to move 'Hux’s second scene to somewhere else afterwards instead.

In fact, the MAIN thing I’m interested to see in J.J.'s next chapter, is how he’ll handle Leia’s character going forward - I sure hope that rumour I recently read of Meryl Streep being considered for the role, was wrong…! 😦