The way I see it playing out in my head - the whole time, we’d be tracking the TIEs down to surface level. For those who think the shots feel disjointed, I think that would “tie” (pun intended) the three together; because yeah, if it’s a shot of the ships, a random shot of some lava, and then back to shots of the ships, I agree that feels awkward.

To put it another way, if I were Joe YouTube Critic watching this scene, I would be thinking, “Wait, what’s with the lava? How is that related to this castle thingy?” If we include the ships in the lava shot, then they become the connection. As far as the story itself is concerned, the point of the sequence isn’t “Lava!”; it’s the TIEs making their way down to the forest. Lava, castle…whatever landscape they fly over, it’s all window dressing.

The sound’s one part of that. Ideally, we would be able to comp in the fighters themselves. I also suggested earlier that it might look cool to just see their shadows flying over the surface of the planet, to imply that they’re still pretty high up at that point - and it would also help to make the shot more visually distinct from the other two flyovers, and therefore less “tedious”; but I’m not sure how the shadows will look in practice.