Further, removing the dialogue doesn’t solve the problem of gathering such a large force so quickly. You would need added scenes to do that.
To clarify, I’m not proposing a better justification for assembling the fleet so quickly. I’m proposing eliminating the very idea that the fleet was assembled so quickly to begin with, but rather that it was already assembled by the time TROS begins. Poe’s lines are a hurdle to this change because, as one of the Resistance’s top leaders (and THE co-General by the time of the final battle), he would presumably have some idea of the fleet’s actual size.
Yeah, this make sense. I honestly expected Lando or Poe would transmit an inspiring message to the worlds much like Ezra or Mon Mothma did in Rebels, asking them to meet Lando at some kind of rendezvous point. Not saying all the people in the galaxy wouldn’t be instantly swayed by Lando’s charm but it feels a bit of a reach to think the Falcon visited the systems one by one (considering most of them were also besieged by First Order forces) in such a short span.
This is the canon answer. He went in person to a few places but he beamed an inspirational message to the rest.
This would’ve been great, if we actually saw that message… At the very least I wonder if we had a shot of R2 start recording Finn and Poe as they give their speech would be enough to imply that it is their speech that is the message Lando and Chewie broadcast when they go to the Core Worlds.
But, I do think the new crawl helps get the idea across that people are rebelling across the galaxy now. I think cutting Poe’s line, “They’ve given up” could potentially help. I mean, if we’re recontextualizing Kijimi to be in the middle of a revolt, it might come off as weird for Poe to say “they’ve given up” when they’re literally watching explosions in the distant streets. So the conversation could go from “Everyone is so afraid” to “Hey, they win by making us think we’re alone…”
With that said, I do think that the new crawl, the puppet show, the potential Kijimi rebellion changes, etc, stuff like this helps sets up that hope lives in the galaxy, and for the fleet to show up in the end, I think.