Would you possibly consider switching the opening scene “General Hugs” joke back to how it was in Hal’s version? I just compared the two and the prolonged “Hugs with an H? Skinny, pasty guy?” stuff still managed to get a little too cringey for my taste. Totally not as badly as in the theatrical version. But personally I liked Hal’s take more because we get the glimpse of the loading bar which already implies to us that Poe is stalling.
I am aaaactually on the fence on this one. While I think my reason for doing something different makes sense, Hal’s edit is so smooth, and if that’s the way the film had been released initially I don’t think anyone would have thought it was anything other than more of Poe being a bad-ass. So, I’ll definitely consider it!