I think if there’s one moment in the movie where we can go “fully epic” with the score and dare to replace JW’s score, it’s this one. But I agree it doesn’t feel earned with the movie as it is. Maybe some ideas floating around here about making it more obvious the sacrifice of Luke Skywalker has sparked a rebellion across the galaxy could help with that. Of course, it would make the arrival of the fleet being the “big” moment of the movie instead of Rey defating Palpatine but it’s not necessarily problematic since the two previous movies had their plots revolving around finding Skywalker to save the day.

I also agree it feels weird pacing-wise to go from total despair to “we’re gonna win” within seconds, so let’s see what Outbound Flight can do.

Otherwise, I don’t think it would be too jarring to return to the classic JW’s score after this scene since the bass-boosted Palpatine’s lightning comes right after, and it kind of break the whole musical continuity of what happens on Exegol. I don’t know if I’m clear…