I’m with JakeRyan17 on most of this.

There’s a lot to catch up on but changing Rey using a mind trick on the stormtrooper to escape and eliminating most of the fight with Kylo, leaving it to just one force/lucky/rage blow and having the ground open up straight away taking away her standing over a “defeated” Kylo removes any “mary sue” feel she has, imo. Her linguistics and piloting skills was believable for me but trimming down her abilities in TFA gives her more of an arc leading into TLJ and TROS. In fact, I’ve made her even stronger in TROS because we’ve already seen her do so much by the time she’s on DSII.

On another note:

I’m trying to export my cut in Premiere Pro but even at 480p sd, it’s saying 27 hours to render. My computer has suffered some serious issues lately but can anyone give me a clue as to why this is happening? It used to take around 2 hours but this is a joke!