I would personally leave the training stuff as is, for the reasons Nev mentioned earlier, but I am really curious to see if that caretaker restructure would work.
I’m not sure I understand Nev’s critique, to be perfectly honest. Rey’s moves are unrefined but I don’t find the scene comical at all. Without saying why I moved the scene to where I did, I’m curious what your impression of the restructure is and what it might or might not accomplish?
Like you said in the caretaker thread, it might not work for pacing reasons, but regardless of that I think it would be a great approach for your edit, since no one has really tried that idea yet (since people either plop it right where it was meant to be, or they remove the caretaker stuff altogether like Hal does). It could be one of things that differentiates your edit from the the others, since it is starting to feel like it will eventually be the most edited Star Wars movie outside of The Phantom Menace.
I should mention I have no plans to share my TLJ edit. Besides the example I showed and my idea for the caretaker scene, my other changes are incredibly minimal (really just a handful of judicious trims).
So when you do that, will everything from the Caretaker scene to Rey leaving the island all be together, or will you cut away again at some point? I really struggle with understanding pacing and when it feels right to cut. I would be curious if anyone had their own perspective on that.
Yeah I probably wouldn’t move anything else at first and see how it works. TLJ I feel is pretty excellent in terms of knowing when to cut to the next thread and when not to. Looking at how TLJ does it (which was of course inspired by ESB) in comparison to say AOTC is a great way to rethink the sequencing of the prequels (which cut back and forth with a frequency that kills the forward momentum).
There is a possibility that adding the caretaker scene on will lopside the island stretch there, though, in which case moving the Yoda scene elsewhere wouldn’t be a bad idea (though I’m reluctant to do this).