Loving some of the ideas in here. Really liked this movie but there were issues. Most Glaring: While some snippy/arrogant/joking dialogue is fine… having the Sinister Sith lord who just murdered someone be mocked by a rebel in no position to do so and Finn trying to impress Solo about being a high rank rebel are completely unnecessary/ridiculous, If Finn had been given more of a backstory and already killed people as a Storm Trooper his conversion would have been so much more powerful, Ray isn’t that developed and could have been shown on Jakku for at least 10 minutes more interacting with scrapers and her daily life, Hyperspace takes no time at all?!, Coruscant is destroyed but no one mentions it (perhaps use the footage of Leah feeling Hans death to show that someone felt it?),way too many call backs with "12 parsecs and trash-compactor, Han Solo instantly finds the Falcon?, BB8 being found next to ray in the middle of nowhere (her seeing BB8 at the scrap selling place would have made so much more sense), and removing sheets over the millennium falcon or r2d2 just to get a clap out of people was stupid.
Most of these issues could be fixed without much effort with just basic footage trimming. If an extended cut is ever released then that would give footage for the needed character development.
I’m currently working on a project to have all Star Wars movies be put together, have the best possible versions (best fan edits/releases), have mistakes removed, and be easily watched back to back. If anyone would like to send me ideas for when I start editing Episode 7 here is my project: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Redone/id/17642/originaltrilogy.com/id/Star-Wars-Redone/id/17642