Hello and welcome Malthus - what a great idea you have here.
Thanks for the welcome Omni. I whole heartedly agree that TLJ is the best of the bunch if only because it did something fresh. The space chase was a nice idea and I loved grumpy Luke, it felt like a natural progression. Luke literally becoming his version of Yoda
As for the crawl I was thinking about establishing Rey as Leia’s pupil would be the best route to circumnavigate the origin story and there’s is the training footage from TROS if I needed to evidence this.
With Poe I was wondering, could he get captured instead of destroying the dreadnought and then be freed by Finn? Effectively lift aspects of TFA and repurposing them. I feel Poe is more heroic in TFA and in TLJ he’s far more arrogant. I think recording things could show him grow into a hero.