The first sentence of the crawl “Flames of Rebellion burn across the galaxy” gets the point across from the get-go. Then I had Hux mention on Mustafar that they’re losing control over countless worlds and Kylo is wasting their time (I changed this since v1 because I didn’t want to repeat the crawl word for word). Then the only reason Kylo “agrees” to go along with Palpy’s games is because he knows he needs the fleet and troops to send a message to the galaxy not to mess with the FO. I had him think to himself that they’ve lost control over key systems since Crait.

Obviously then there is also the puppet show on Pasanna, which shows how much the story of Skywalker means to people. And all of Kijimi is in a similar rebellion, as evidenced by my addition of teens that graffiti a portrait of Luke from Crait (which makes even more sense now that Crait was recorded with HoloNet holocam droids in my TLJ edit).

So yeah, they’re really not doing too great.