I feel like what you’re saying Hal, is that the motivation for cutting her out of the movie is more because since there are a lot of problematic things in her scenes, that it would probably just be easier to cut her out altogether.

If it’d be easier for you I think you should do it. But I kind of agree with Zachary VIII, you’d then have two movies without her doing anything. If it were me, I would rather cut her from the last act TFA to make her not be the one to lower the shields and “emasculate” her character. The idea that their scenes together in TLJ are their first confrontation since his defection feels more appropriate to me.

On another note, I’d be interested in how the execution of the Rose-saving-Finn Edit will look. During my second viewing, the quiet guy next to me during that scene put it bluntly, “That was dumb.”

Also, don’t know if you guys have had your baby yet, Hal, but congratulations if you have!