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.
Her emotions were conveyed visually on-screen (before the line), so there was no need to have her say “Oh no.” Plus, the viewers can just react to the “boom” sound for themselves, making the line even more pointless.
What I mean by “it slows down the scene” is that the scene literally pauses just to have a girl say “oh no”, when we can just skip straight from the “boom” sound to the shot of her seeing a First Order fleet arrive above the atmosphere of D’Qar.