Thanks for the feedback, and I’m glad you enjoyed it.

We’d hashed that question out several times. I think it is good to get the film back on track to where it was by that point so destroying SKB doesn’t feel unneeded. It also offers a more intuitive understanding of why a star still explodes out of it (and even though it makes no scientific sense, it even helps account for it being much smaller).

That scene was not part of the subpar V1, so I had a few painful viewings of it being that way and feeling off.