I wanted to post this here instead of Hal’s new Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant thread because I feel it might be beyond what he is wanting to do, but I wanted to speculate on some ideas regarding this edit thought he has:

Seemed weird to me that once he turns to the Light Side, Kylo doesn’t take advantage of his role as supreme leader. Research of mine indicates that the emperor sensed this and put General Pryde in charge at that point. If a deleted scene is presented to this effect it would be welcome. The existing scene doesn’t make this clear.

I wonder if the ending could be somehow altered to where a part of the First Order fleet actually came to help the Resistance. At the very least a new shot could be generated to where we see First Order ships arrive and start attacking the Final Order (rolls eyes) ships.

A more ambitious idea might be to have the “people’s fleet”, as Hal put it, arrive at the same time as the Resistance fleet. Then, when things are looking dire, the First Order arrives and actually helps the Resistance. The First Order arriving to help the Resistance would also parallel Kylo arriving to help Rey. This would require a lot of changes, but I could see how this would make the final battle feel more epic, and differentiate it from ROTJ more. It also appeals to me because it lends itself to theme of reunification and peace rather than just blatantly “destroying the enemy” like how ROTJ ended.

Yeah, this would require a lot of new visual effects shots and other alterations, but just imagine this kind of ending… the children of the Old Republic coming together to defeat the man who brought it down.