Well, Anjohan, I’ll welcome your thoughts once you see the whole thing! Thanks for posting.
And, smpearce1981, your post is entirely reasonable and correct. The TIE thing doesn’t bother me per se, but it was an opportunity to make a change that steered clear of what feels like an incongruity. Otherwise we’d never make changes like this and always defer to and accept official explanations.
Or we could all pretend someone had bothered to write the following scene for the actual movie:-
Ben searched the broken hanger for a ship. Any ship. All he needed was to get off the planet. He’d worry about how he got to Exegol later.
He tried two ships. First an old shuttle, but it’s power core was smashed beyond repair. Second an old TIE. To his disbelief it powered up immediately. And it had a hyperdrive! What was this? Some sort of prototype? What were the odds!
Ben didn’t waste any time questioning it. He’d learnt that from his father.
He attributed it to the will of the force and moved on, he didn’t need distractions right now. He needed to get back in the fight. He hit the controls and the TIE departed the twisted hanger.
As he entered the atmosphere, he laid in the co-ordinates for Exegol.
‘I’m coming Rey’ he said to himself as he waited for the navi-computer to finish plotting it’s course.
The lights signalled. He was ready. But for a split second before he hit the jump, he paused and once again heard the words of his old man echo through his subconscious. ‘Punch it!’
Ben’s caught his lips moving in synchronisation with the memory. As the star field began to wrap itself around the ship, he smiled. He suddenly felt a lot like his old self…
Fade out.