My response to most of what you said is: Ahh. That is good! Realising that Luke is helping because of Leia and Rey makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying. Same with Luke’s philosophy, Yoda, and the meaning of the lessons. He wants Rey to learn to go beyond the Jedi. And in RoS we do actually see that the Jedi texts only lead Rey to struggle more with her darkness. I will definitely add this to my collection once it’s finished.

Acbagel said:

Delpheas said:
The cut to Luke saying “you think what, I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all?” is rough, it feels like something is missing.

You feel like it is missing something at what point in that phrase? Before, in the middle, or at the end?

Right before, it felt like a hard cut where something else had been.

I really like the training montage, however by having it in the middle of the lesson, and ending on the lesson, it doesn’t quite give the impression of time passing. It needs something else, maybe a recolor at the end to give the impression it’s not the same day.

I was banking on the inclusion of some of the training segments occurring at night being the indicator that days had gone by. Did the night time shots not give the impression that time was passing during the montage?

It did for me. My wife wasn’t able to let go of the fact that in the theatrical it was just one scene. Personally I liked it quite a lot.

Kylo taking the shot on Leia is well done.

Thanks. Do you think it is better for his character to ‘kill’ her rather than his hesitancy in theatrical?

It could go both ways. I like him taking the shot, but there’s no reaction from him when it’s discovered she survived. It did feel weird for it to go unacknowledged.