Yeah I’m not sure there’s a softer tumbling shot than what you had. It could just be one of those movie things where a main character gets in a major accident and somehow makes it out with cuts and bruises.

I think flopping the shot works. I also wonder if cutting the earlier shot (and Poe’s reaction) could work so it’s not so much duplication. It may not with the pacing.

My hope right now (before rendering a new workprint) would be for two versions:

Keep the scene as-is, improve the first skimmer removal shot, and remove the right skimmer on the wide shot. This way we have Finn shot down, and just don’t see Rose for a bit, but the rest of the scene is intact and “clean.”
Rose gets shot down as she’s retreating. This would also require the skimmer removal shots, as well as the new fx of the laser blasts at Rose’s skimmer along the lines of big_gareth’s work. I even think with this version we can leave the rest of the scene the same without Finn and Rose meeting after the crash. He could just get out of the cockpit and say “Rose.” Next time we see them he’s carrying her into base. This fixes the continuity without introducing any distance issue. Been a bit busy lately, so haven’t yet sat down and given version 2 a solid effort!