One aspect of the film that I really don’t jive with is how a scene is taken to explain just how the First Order troops are taken against their will at birth and trained to fight for a cause they had no say in, only for all of them manning the Destroyers at the end to get blown up and killed.

I think this can be knocked out along with the issue of how all the Destroyers got built by one thing. If someone goes the route of having the Emperor return and show off the Destroyers to Kylo at the end of EpVIII, we can take a bit of the crawl for EpIX to exposit that the Emperor has created his own clone army to bolster his numbers and erect the Final Order.

If you went the route of turning Snoke’s dialogue into a Sith Dialect and creating new lines for him using subtitles (I really like this concept), you could have him allude to a secret army being constructed that is “the largest in the galaxy” and use it as a carrot on a stick to motivate Kylo Ren along his Sith journey, along with some teasing of an ancient dark lord to smoothe over the Emperor return.