New changes are good to better match with TLJ, please leave in V2 for SKB.
I remember Dom arguing that placing a Snoke scene after the Oscillator sabotage would throw off the pacing of the end of the movie. At the time I thought the benefit to the story would outweigh this negative, but having viewed Restructured V2 quite a few times this year I have come around to Dom’s way of thinking on this. It really stops the movie in its tracks to manufacture a threat which we know won’t materialize, when the focus should be on the fallout from Han’s death on our other main characters.
Rey thinking Luke Skywalker was a myth could stay in, later in the movie Han confirms to her that the Jedi were real and that resolves that part of Rey’s beliefs and allows her to realize that Luke actually was a real person and not just a story. Rey believes in “The Legend of Luke” and everything she’s heard until she meets him in TLJ and has her expectations subverted, fitting with that movie’s theme.
Yeah, Rey does say ‘The Jedi were real!’, so that might feel weird if that other line is gone.
If it’s possible, I would like to find a different shot to place immediately prior to the Hosnian system being destroyed, instead of cutting to Leia. If we can avoid cutting to Leia, it can be left slightly ambiguous about whether she is reacting via the Force to the planetary destruction only or if Han’s death is part of it. This one may need to stay as is, since it was hard enough to find enough shots to include!
Maybe use the shots of Kylo on the shuttle but somehow replace him with someone else or crop the footage to cut him out.
Not sure what you mean by this. Would this be another shot of Imperial officers watching the base fire?
One shot you could use is from TLJ, where the fleet is escaping from the Resistance base. Just paint out the ships and do a zoom into the planet before all the shots of the Resistance officers.
Another shot from that same scene in TLJ is when the Dreadnought prepares to fire on the fleet. There’s a shot of a technician with a helmet similar to the ones on the Death Star, which would be a fitting callback here.
Also Hal, really nice job on Finn and Poe’s escape!