That is a good point! I actually think the “You have no one here” would be a good line to have. Think it is worth playing with.

Also, I went back and rewatched your previews for Ach-To and the Pasana stand-off and I wanted to reiterate how great of a job I think you’re doing so far. Even for previews, those tests are super professional. Obviously, some of your motivation is to remove certain things (like Rey Palpatine), but I think your method of trying to create a little more breathing room throughout the whole film is really going to pay off. If the Phantom Editor was still around, I think these are the kind of fundamental changes he would want to make, beyond correcting narrative errors, as we all want to naturally do.

I love your note about the final Resistance mission briefing, about how you’re adding “a full second” of footage from the trailers. It’s funny how a full second seems rather inconsequential, but I think a multitude of these tiny changes will really pay off in the context of the full picture.