TK251, I’ll be interested to see what bits and pieces you’ve chosen to alter for this. I’ve only checked out one completed edit of this movie so far, and that was by a guy called ‘Noodle_Finger’ on reddit which came out recently - (I’ll be sending you the link for it sometime soon, and can give it to anyone else that wishes to see it too, if they want to)
It was the first time I’d seen how things looked where placing the ‘superweapon blowing up the planets’ scene after ‘Han’s death’ scene was concerned. I liked seeing it played out that way…but have decided I’ll be keeping the whole complete scene as it is/where it is in the scheme of things for my own ideal cut-list…as I really like the Williams music that plays during that whole sequence, as well as certain shots of Hux watching the proceedings (which I’d have to discard/chop up otherwise). It remains one of my favourite sequences from the movie, and I’m loathe to dilute it’s impact for me. Still, I’ve managed to work out a few other little tweaks and re-arrangements of my own which will make the movie even more to my liking in other ways.
For instance, I’d already decided to shorten the ‘Rathtar’ scene for myself in a very similar way as your Vimeo clip showed - where Rey holds her mouth at what she’s seeing, before she then begins to run off with Finn…and we then cut to the Falcon seen through the doorway as Han and Chewie are firing, as Rey and Finn then appear again. It was nice to see it play out that way in your clip too, and I think that works really well to shorten the overall sequence for the better.
By the way, I’ve decided to make it look like the two gangs are just one gang for the start of the ‘Rathtar’ scene…and I’ll be shortening the whole exchange between them and Han (with no talk of money) to make it seem that they are purely on a mission to find the BB-8 unit on behalf of the First Order. The whole thing zips along quite nicely at this point now, and I’ve ended up rather liking the ‘Rathtar’ sequence in this form now.
I’ll look forward to see how your own version turns out, however.