Yeah that’s too bad I guess.
Speaking of the destroyers rising, what about moving that up to when Palpatine says to Pride “the final Order begins”? I think not seeing them until the 3rd act builds up anticipation instead of revealing all the cards in the first few minutes of the opening.
They’re also just floating there for no apparent reason for 3 quarters of the film.
I’ve tinkered around with using that moment as the big show of force, since everyone is cutting Kijimi’s destruction. It works pretty well, since something does need to replace the big cannons thematically. Poe is completely hopeless in the next scene, and that doesn’t work if we haven’t seen the Final Order do something huge. If the fleet bursting out of the ground goes where Kijimi blowing up used to be, it’s relatively seamless.