What’s the issue with burning homestead again? It’s a nice callback to the first time Rey embraces the Force,

It’s an on-the-nose and now-overused callback, period. It was “nice callback” in TFA, and the repurposing of that specific rendition of the Force Theme (which probably shouldn’t have worked in that spot considering what it was intended to be scoring, and what Williams had actually scored for that moment) worked for THAT moment.

But for this moment, it’s so blatantly self-referential, and essentially a “Member-Berries” type insertion that it can’t help but pull focus from what’s happening, to what’s being EDITED, which is death for a fan-edit. It’s always a delicate tightrope to walk when your’e fan-editing, but “Burning Homestead” specifically - not the Force Theme, but that specific version of it - isn’t really doing anything but calling attention to itself as being a super-obvious echo of a better moment from a better movie, instead of actually scoring the feeling of the movie we’re all currently watching.

That’s my issue with it. I think it might be better to just let the moment stand starkly with no music at all than to keep trying to track in old music for that moment. I wonder if there’s a way to extend what Williams actually scored for that exact moment, too, but otherwise - Burning Homestead in that sequence just plays to me like fanservice, not dramatic payoff.

And again, the edit in the scene currently is in the wrong key, and isn’t merged well with the surrounding music cues on top of that.