Wow, thank you all so much for your kind words! I may make the fight with the TR-8R trooper a little longer, but I still want Finn to suck at using the lightsaber. (For me, it’s kind of like Yoda using a lightsaber. He should’t have been using one in the first place) . If you liked this, you’ll enjoy my immolation scene music and a few other edits.
Also, in another thread, I read an idea for an edit where the destruction of the Republic planets would take place at the end of the movie, right when Han dies. After looking at the film again, that actually wouldn’t be too hard to do. The only downside is, you’d probably have to cut out Hux’s speech.