smpearce, I’m convinced too. Well argued.
Hey Eddie,
Well, it was certainly a worthy question to bring to the table and I can totally see where you were coming from in trying to determine if ‘more’ was needed.
But after going down the rabbit hole with it on the backs of both Poppa and ChainsawAsh’s comments, I just landed on the hidden beauty that presents itself as a result of removing ‘Leia Poppins’
Like Poppa, I was pretty indifferent to the original sequence and I just preferred it’s ommission as it just helped keep things less outlandish…but it seems there’s actually scope to interpret many more layers from it and I think that now we’ve found that extra subtext it’s quite rewarding?
I don’t know if anyone saw TiMartyn’s spin on this scene?
He kept the majority of it intact, but reworked it to feature Luke.
In his version, Rey’s arrival prompts Luke to reconnect to the force and check in on Leia just as the attack occurs. Luke then uses his powers to recover her back to the safety of the ship.
It was an interesting take on the scene, as it really sets up how powerful Luke has become a lot earlier in the movie.
It was a really solid idea and executed pretty well but something ultimately felt slightly off about it, whereas Poppa’s approach just keeps it clean and concise so that the movie is allowed to move on without drawing attention to itself by arguably jumping the shark