Possessed,
The Ben scene is not "hard to follow", I used the wrong words. I found a couple of edits jarring, especially when you cut to Ben seated without showing him sit down.
But that's my problem for knowing the original so well, most likely. As I said, my wife didn't mind.
I know what you mean about the difficulty of this. It's time consuming and frustrating. I think you're doing great and that if all you did was add Luke's theme to the transition you've got then the whole piece would work fine.
I can't thank you enough for going down this road. I'll understand if you have to abandon it, but I think you've done a brave and valuable thing here.