Totally I understand. His cut of not worked really well to fix it but I understand wanting the structure to remain the same.
Thought I’d bring it up here incase anyone wants to give it a shot and fix it with vfx
Who ever said it would have to involve VFX? I just removed the portion of the shot where the lightsaber is visible.
Honestly, I would prefer to remove the shot completely. So Rey slips away from the crowd and we don’t see her until she comes back with the book. Unfortunately I was having trouble with the audio because Poe’s line plays mostly off screen.
Also it’s strange how we hear Merry quietly say in the background of that shot, “There were always whispers of his hunger to cheat death.” Like, what? Why would the galaxy at large ever have reason to believe that? Most of them didn’t even know he was a Sith in the OT.