You know, one of the worst examples of this film’s rushed pacing is, I think, right before they get swallowed up in the cave on Pasaana. Their ships explode, they crash-land, they immediately start firing 10 million blaster shots at the last stormtrooper, which then starts zipping around. It smashes head-first into a cliff, it explodes, and they immediately start sinking into the ground. So you have a cacophony of noise, and two tangentially related problems that are immediately stacked on one another without any breathing room whatsoever.

In my mind, what the sequence desperately needs is a brief moment after the last stormtrooper is defeated. A slight pause to catch our breath, and then…there’s a light trickling rock sound; it builds, and the ground begins to swallow them up.

Does anyone have any ideas of a shot that could potentially be used to pad it out? A character close-up, or a landscape shot? Heck, maybe we could even find some cutaway to Kylo beginning to fly down to the planet’s surface? Then cut back when Poe stumbles.