Thanks for sharing your edit, joshuabri.

I really enjoyed watching this. Between this and many other edits, I keep being amazed by how much nonsense you can remove from this movie while still keeping a coherent story. Your edit demonstrated that nicely.

Technically, this was very well done. You cut some parts that I only realized afterwards were removed. There are only a few moments where it’s a bit choppy.

The removal of Palpatine added more agency to the characters and I didn’t miss him at all. Duel of the Fates is a very fitting title for this edit.

What didn’t really work for me was the order of scenes near the end: after the final battle at Exegol, the film is still giving us new information which doesn’t really matter anymore, since the battle is won. I understood the ideas behind it, but it does take away from the finale a bit, in my opinion.