I really appreciate all of the kind words, everyone! Thank you! To address a few of the comments all at once:

The background/fighting audio is definitely not finished yet. I’m planning on adding more texture to it, more reverb, some explosions (good idea, Chase!), etc. And I definitely need to figure out how to make everything sound more distant. krausfadr and Nev, I’ll try out those suggestions, thanks! I may try to play with the EQ a bit too; it’s my first time doing an effect like this, so I’m all ears for other tips!

I can try to get “You don’t believe that” to work. Like I said above though, it’s been a surprisingly difficult edit to make, so we’ll see what happens.

Cap, if you (or others) are willing to record some distant shouts for us, I’m sure that would be useful! We should talk to axlanian too about what exactly those would be - that could be really helpful for some of the audio mixing he was working on as well.

Finally, regarding the use of “For Skywalker” before the ending… Personally, I like the idea that this is the rallying cry behind which the galaxy has united (Star Wars’ version of “Remember the Alamo”); so in that respect, I like peppering it in every once and a while. It feels like a natural way of building the world, as well as foreshadowing/building to the ending of the story. That said, if people would prefer to make the line kind of a surprise for the finale, that’s valid too. We’d probably need a new line to replace it here though.

Less important, but it really is weird how depressed and prone to giving up Poe is in this movie, considering his story in TLJ was about being too bold and reckless. I don’t know if it’s possible/worth it to change it in any reasonable capacity, but still…weird. Like I said, it’s not a character arc - it’s a character cosine.