I’ve been thinking a lot recently about this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZkZNiw6XE

I think the reason it falls flat is that there is no one behind these “ships”. Compare that to Endgame, where all the characters from the past movies have arrived, and it gets emotional.

I think what should have followed the first shot of all the ships is a brief montage of various characters we can say are in this massing of ships. The problem is I can’t think of many shots of just a character in a ship. What I have right now are:
–The Nemodians from TPM
–A Naboo Star Pilot
–A Mon Cala looking like Admiral Raddus
–The Mandalorian
–Lando and Chewie

I think this would make the arrival more emotional knowing all these characters from the past nine movies are here. But I’d be happy to hear any other suggestions for more characters to use.