What do you all think about potentially reinstating two things?
The leaf/reed scene - Luke is sardonic, and it fits in with his character, makes the point the scene is going for that Rey doesn’t know the first thing about the Force, and is a genuinely funny moment. With the surrounding caretaker humor gone, maybe this one is worth keeping.
“…not about fighting what we hate, saving what we love.” - This line sucks, but perhaps it’s worth it to cap off the Finn and Rose plot’s point. It harkens back to the opening act, and shows her (dumb) growth throughout the movie. I do not like the line. But… eh?
Leaf : I’m OK with keeping it as well. If you remove the milking scene, then you would need to keep the “good” humor, and the leaf joke is a good one (I also like “ok that’s pretty much nowhere” that you kept). It’s like your PT edits: when you remove the truly bad, the not so bad becomes stronger and can stay into the cut.
Saving what we love : I agree it’s not a great line (Rian paying tribute to Lucas is cute though), but the removal is a little bit jarring. If it can be smoothed, I would be ok with removing it.
About the holo-Snoke/Hux scene, does anyone agree here it should be removed or am I (again 😃)alone on this one ?