I loved every part of this! There were two bugs to fix: the opening crawl music starts a little late and Han’s you “hurt chewie you’ll deal with me” is duplicated. This edit has me excited what you can do with the rest. I really don’t like the others. Two editing things I’d have changed/fixed is to change the lightsaber noise when Darth Vader appears in the vision to match his and re-edit the Maz conversation because Rey says “what fight” when the line that triggered that one has been deleted. Other than that, amazing stuff from everyone involved in the clips/footage used! Can’t wait for more!
Thanks for the feedback! I’ve added a section in my OP to keep track of the fixes I need to make before final cut.
I haven’t sat down and watched my cut all the way through in one sitting yet. How did the narrative flow with this cut? Did it seem like the changes helped the character arcs?