I know nobody seemingly talks about this, but there are some scenes that are slowed down (pacing-wise) by lines that tell the viewer how they should react when they already know how they’re supposed to react in said scenes, notably the opening scene where Billie Lourd says “oh no” when a First Order fleet arrives above the atmosphere of the Resistance’s planet.
You really don’t like that line, do you?
Of course I don’t. It slows down the pacing of the movie, and it is also pointless given that we already know that it is an “oh no.”
And let me guess, you’ve read my comments on Poppasketti and Hal 9000’s respective edits? ',:I
I don’t see how a 2 second reaction from a character slows down the pacing in any measurable way.
Plus, as I said above, seeing a character react to something isn’t telling the audience how to react, nor is it pointless.