What a great video! Love that guy’s attitude. Thanks for sharing.
I’ll try to touch on how some of his thoughts might could be applied to edits.
A new idea I hadn’t really heard was trying to swap out Han and Qi’ra introduction with the alternate Qi’ra intro deleted scene. I really like his reasoning. I personally was thinking about cutting all of the Lady Proxima stuff, and just have Han hotwiring the speeder at the very beginning of the film be the start of the speeder chase. But, if I were to keep Proxima I think I would like to try that alternative.
He had an interesting thought regarding Dryden, and how it would’ve been interesting if he didn’t necessarily seem like such a bad guy at the beginning of the film. I can understand that, maybe you could cut out Dryden’s intro with him killing the Imperial Moff, maybe trim some of his threats. But I also think having Dryden be threatening is important to make the stakes of their mission feel high. Hmm, interesting decision.
He also mentioned making Maul’s reveal be a little more subdued, but others have already began attempting this. For me it is either a question of making the cameo a little more subtle or cutting it altogether.