Dr. Krogshöj, I appreciate your observation. It was strange to me as well that Phasma and her troops were marching in formation at the other end of the hanger. It looked cool, but otherwise didn’t seem logical.
Cutting it removed a lot of moments that bothered me in the theatrical version, including the BB-8 imperial walker material, which really kind of stunned of me when I first saw it. I like silly, but that was too much at an inappropriate time.