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NeverarGreat
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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Date created
26-Jul-2018, 8:15 PM

It’s true, all of it.

I originally imagined that this planet would be in the same star system as Jakku, making their jump last no more than a minute and probably take less time than Kylo’s scene. But if they are doing this and not jumping to a more central system, the problem remains as to why Han and Chewie found them so quickly.

The problem really lies with the passage of time in this section of the movie. Each event leads immediately to another with no chance for downtime. I can’t imagine that more than ten minutes had elapsed between them leaving Jakku and being found by Han.

JEDIT: The only break point I can think of is sometime during Finn and Rey’s hallway conversation. After ‘I’m Rey’, cut to Kylo’s scene, then back to the Falcon falling out of hyperspace near Ponema Terminal. Cut to Rey in the midst of the pipes, as if they’ve had nothing but problems while in Hyperspace. That means the loss of Finn’s moment where he considers telling Rey the truth about himself, which is a shame. Maybe an even better break point in terms of flow would be after ‘he’s going to get you home. We both will’. Then there are no introductions at all, but it would allow Kylo to ask the question ‘what girl?’ for the audience, until she says her name later. Finn says ‘Rey’ in the next scene, but that could be edited out so that the first time we hear it is when Han asks her on Takodana.