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NeverarGreat
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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29-Sep-2018, 12:16 AM

I just had a crazy idea for a restructure. Bear with me here.

After Rey finds BB-8, go to the Star Destroyer and immediately to Finn and Poe escaping. Hux orders a squad to the wreckage (without mention of a droid), then Finn wakes up in the early morning and rushes over to find Poe gone. The TIE fighter disappears beneath the sand and cut to Poe back on the Star Destroyer, now without his jacket and interrogated by Kylo Ren. He finds that they’re looking for a droid, and cut to Rey at Nima outpost. After she decides to keep BB-8, cut to Finn traversing the desert and events play as before until…

…Maz’s castle is destroyed, Han and Finn taken into custody. Rey is being interrogated by Kylo Ren, who has just learned that she has seen the map. Suddenly his attention is drawn away by distant explosion happening off screen. He moves away and looks up. In the sky, the Star Destroyer sports a trail of smoke and debris. On the ground, the Stormtroopers look up and then quickly rush forward to face the threat of incoming Resistance fighters. They blow through the First Order and only during Poe’s aerial antics is it revealed that he was freed from the Destroyer and has again joined the battle.

When Finn and Poe are reunited, Poe recounts that he was thrown from the TIE crash, woke up at night without sign of Finn or any ship, and then cuts himself off to talk about BB-8.

So this restructure would take some tricky but not impossible effects work. However, it has some benefits:
-Poe doesn’t simply abandon his mission because the writers couldn’t figure it out. He’s a prisoner until he’s set free over Maz’s castle.
-The sabotage of the Destroyer makes tactical sense, and explains why it was out of commission during the attack on the Oscillator.
-The First Order acts in a more reasonable manner in actually recovering someone from the TIE crash.
-Since we can now follow Poe’s location and actions at each point in the movie, he becomes much more of a main character in the vein of TLJ even though he’s offscreen much of the time.