Force Awakens: Re: vised - Episode Two!

We are picking up with a revised Force Awakens from the opening of the film.  Rey heads towards Niima Outpost, she encounters Teedo on his luggabeast, other Teedos are surrounding his capture of BB-8.  Rey circles the Teedos with her speeder and takes out her staff.  The original trilogy had a short race in every film; Jawas, Ugnaughts, and Ewoks, so the Teedos were a race, but not seen in the film.  She swings it wide in a circle to drive off the Teedos and negotiates with Teedo, the rider, to free BB-8.  Rey has BB-8 using his cable to attach to her speeder and takes off.   Poe revives and Kylo Ren uses the Force to draw out that BB-8 has the data which he reports to General Hux.  Rey and BB-8 reach the hut where Ar-U55, a rickety sparring droid (I'm imagining Matthew Wood who voiced the battle droids provides the voice), activates his staff.  Rey says they don’t have time for training and will need to get supplies.  They reach Niima Outpost, a city made from the remains of starship wreckage, and cannons that now serve as posts for buildings.  Rey speaks with Unkar Plutt whose shop has parts and rows of alien customers (to give him a Jabba aura).  He makes an offer for the droids, but Rey refuses him even though Unkar Plutt says he is dangerous when refused.  

Finn sees Poe resting from his interrogation, he takes him aside, and makes the deal to get them to escape.  Finn sets charges as they reach the hangar and they enter the TIE/sf fighter.   The charges are set off as the TIE fighter launches and Finn fires the mag-pulse launcher as they leave the Star Destroyer.  The escape doesn’t make much sense so a disabled ship would give Poe and Finn a chance.  They introduce each other and Poe dubs FN-2187, Finn.  General Hux notes that the mag-pulse torpedo disabled the ship, but weapons will soon be ready.  Poe heads back to Jakku because he is looking for BB unit, and they are hit by missiles sent by the Vehemence.  Finn regains consciousness, gotta have the Finn moment, and is able to recover Poe’s jacket.  The TIE fighter sinks and explodes in the sand.  Finn takes cover in a rock shelf as TIE fighters roar overhead.  He removes his stormtrooper armor and walks across the desert.  He manages to find the city of Niima Outpost.  Hux argues with Kylo Ren over the effectiveness of his troops and the concept of a clone army.  

Finn drinks from the trough of a happabore.  Unkar Plutt’s men put restraining bolts on the droids, Rey takes care of them with her staff, as Finn helps fight the thugs about to join the fight.  The thugs limp away.  Rey removes the restraining bolts.  Ar-U55 approves of her fighting.  Finn is interested in the BB droid and Constable Zuvio checks on the disruption.  BB-8 informs Rey and she chases after Finn, but he stumbles over BB-8 rolling in his way.  Finn is trained in using staff weapons seen in the Takodana battle by the other stormtrooper.  Rey knocking him down doesn’t make sense.  BB-8 shocks Finn and he admits to taking Poe’s jacket.  Constable Zuvio points out Rey, Finn, and the droids to stormtroopers and they start to run.  They reach the spaceport, Rey tries to explain she works as a space tug pilot bringing in stranded ships, but her space tug is destroyed by TIE fighters.  They head to the Millennium Falcon covered by tarps and gravity locks.  It doesn’t make sense why the Falcon is just sitting around for anyone to take and the gravity locks were introduced in Star Wars: Rebels.  Finn heads to the gunnery station, activates the cannons, and blasts the gravity locks.  

Rey powers up the Falcon’s engines, Ar-U55 takes the co-pilot seat, she has to re-route power as the engines warm up and the TIE fighters strafe the desert floor.  Ar-U55 brings up the shields.  Rey reaching over to activate the shields, so that’s Chewie’s use?, to push a button?  Han called out “Angle the deflector shields while charge up the main guns” in ANH, how is Rey doing this in another seat?, another misunderstanding of Star Wars.  Rey is able to awkwardly bring the Falcon out of spaceport smashing into buildings and tears off the last of the tarps.  Ar-U55 notes that her flying needs adjustment.  BB-8 has put his interface arm into the cockpit, trying to adjust power levels, and bleeps his progress to Rey.  She flies the Falcon across the desert and Finn charges up the cannons.  The TIE fighters open fire on the ship.  Rey brings the Falcon to the ground level to kick up dust clouds to confuse the First Order fighters.  Finn fires back at the fighters.  The ship’s engines flare and the Falcon skips across the desert before Rey is able to get control of the ship.  This is to show that the time passed without maintenence for the Falcon would make it awkward and clunky at first like Solo having problems with it in ESB.  

The TIE fighters strike the Falcon sending smoke from its aft, BB-8 heads to the engineering section which is venting steam, warning lights flash in the cockpit.  Rey heads to the ship graveyard.   Finn’s cannon fire clipping the wings of a fighter which crashes.  The remaining TIE fighter disables Finn’s cannon.  Rey heads to the Star Destroyer she scavenged.  They enter through the starship’s engines and its interior has shafts of light from where the bulkheads have collapsed.  An abandoned Star Destroyer would be impossible to fly in.  More has to be scavengened or collapsed to do so.  The fighter sends up explosions around the Falcon.  Rey sends the Falcon spinning in a turn allowing Finn to blast the TIE fighter, nice move from the movie.  Sarco Planck informs the First Order of the escape of the Falcon.  Rey and Finn introduce themselves.  Kylo Ren is told about the escape of BB-8 and he rages with his lightsaber.  Finn makes his deal with BB-8, but as Rey checks on the ship damaged by the attack, it is caught in a tractor beam!  Of course, this is the appearance of Han Solo and Chewbacca with threads of white hair.  We have to keep the great moments of TFA.  The run time, basic scenes, and budget are tried to be maintained.  I'm liking Ar-U55's lines.  

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