Hi, I’m new to this forum, this is my first post, but I’ve been checking on this thread for a couple of months and I’m excited to watch the next version of the edit. I just read through all of the posts since last month and there’s one place I wanted to throw in my two cents.

I’m looking at this edit with fairly fresh eyes, having not seen the original TFA since it was in theaters. I loved Sir Ridley’s fast paced treatment of the build-up to the TIE attack (posted Jan. 12). It felt like what the scene would’ve been if SKB had never existed. My heart sank when I read what appeared to be pushback towards keeping things more as they were in v1 of the edit.

Once Finn looks up and sees a star destroyer instead of a death ray, every shot that follows it is recontextualized. It’s no longer a scene about a distant tragedy/call to action, but an imminent attack, and I believe that Sir Ridley’s edit did a great job of acknowledging that change.