Could you specify more on the “transmission ends” and “radar blip” moment? I’m very curious what ways people have to remove Canto Bight entirely. My main gripe would be that we never see DJ introduced as a character.
Yeah messing with Canto Bight is so hard. Rose saving Finn at the end appears to come from out of nowhere without it; it’s less believable without seeing them spend more time together.
After Maz’s transmission - which I am definitely cutting - ends, I believe someone says something like “Right, we’re going to go to Canto Bight and look for the codebreaker wearing the blue flower lapel,” or whatever. The next scene concerning this plot is a radar blip on one of the screens on the bridge [Holdo: “what was that?” Officer: “It’s nothing”]. After that the next scene I will include from this plot will be the stolen ship. I realize that that’s not a great introduction to DJ, but for me at least, I think it solves the Canto Bight issue in the easiest way possible. We can assume that DJ was the codebreaker that they were looking for all along.
That’s not to say that it’s the best way to do it. I will definitely try to salvage the first introduction to DJ and and the escape from the cell if I can.