Many of these have already been discussed but here’s my list:
- New crawl that does not mention Palpatine by name or talking about the dead speaking.
- Cut lightspeed skipping.
- Continuity is off between Rey cutting down the last tree, BB8 watching Rey, and the tree having landed on BB8.
- Trim BB8 and C3PO dialogue after Finn says “we go together” to Rey about going to Pasana. It’s out of character for C3P0 to want to go on a mission. Also, remove him telling R2 that he’s his best friend.
- Cut Finn and Rose discussion about her having to study specs of old destroyers.
- Remove Stormtroopers dialogue as Kylo and Knights of Ren walk by. Instead they just look at each other.
- Have Rey tell the group that they “have to go” and cut to them running to steal the speeders.
- Cut goofy parts of chase such as “they fly now” and the flying stormtrooper whirling around after being hit.
- Cut stormtrooper holding up dagger before loading Chewie into the transport.
- Trim Babu Frick laughing after Zorri and Poe joke about not trusting each other.
- Trim Zorri Bliss dialogue (ex. I don’t believe you believe that).
- Trim some of C3P0’s silly lines after having memory wiped “I don’t know who this wookie is but this is madness”.
- Trim Poe saying “3P0, move your metal ass” and his reaction.
- Cut Finn yelling “Rey!!! Poe!!! Whooo!!!”
- Trim stormtroopers “It’s good” and “thank goodness your here”.
- Cut Goonie dagger
- Cut Jannah telling Finn there’s another skimmer and their attempt to go after Rey on the death star.
- Remove Maz explaining what Leia is about to do to stop Ben.
- Cut star destroyer blowing up Kijimi (remove all references of fleet ships having super weapons).
- Trim Luke saying “what are you doing?”
- Cut Luke and Leia training.
- Cut Luke raising Xwing out of the water. Either after Luke says “you have everything you need” or after Xwing is shown bubbling in the water.
- Have massive Rebel fleet come earlier in the battle (always happens at the last minute).
- Cut Poe giving up and apologizing to everyone.
- Remove Zorri “so long sky trash” Poe “who’s that flyer” Zorri “take a guess spice runner”.
- Somehow have the ‘ground crew’ wait for Poe and Jannah (remove them hanging on to the ship as it falls and the Falcon coming to the rescue).
- Cut star destroyers being defeated around the galaxy (Bespin, Endor, Jakuu).
- Cut Chewie receiving medal.
- Remove odd conversation between Jannah and Lando.
- Remove old lady asking “Rey who?”.
Would also love to incorporate some of this film into TLJ to help flesh out that story.