Mauler mentions a deleted scene from TFA, watch for yourselves:
Timecode is 34m24s.
One of the biggest flaws of TFA is how it simply refuses to explain how the Resistance relates to the Republic, with this tiny snippet, it at least acknowledges that there is something going on and it blows my mind why they cut it.
That tiny dialogue would have had such a big impact and they cut it.
Most likely cause they are mortally afraid of referencing the Senate, since they think people will lump TFA together with the boring talky scenes in the prequels.
Edit:
In the zoom-shot on the balcony, shortly before the planets are obliterated by the Starkiller FuckOff-Rays, I always wondered if I was supposed to recognize that black chick that's so clearly the focus of the shot.
It all makes sense now. Knowing about this little scene alone highlights how incompetently TFA was put together.
If brevity is the soul of wit, MauLer is the least witty person on the planet, whatever his other virtues.
He's doing a very detailed analysis of individual scenes and their larger context to one another, so it's bound to be long.
It's kind of weird to criticise someone for being thorough in their critique and explaining why exactly something does or doesn't work, while also addressing the various ways in which certain flaws and poor script choices have been tried to be explained by fans.
To wit: When someone tells you "The moon landing was fake" and you take the time to explain why that is false and how many different kinds of things prove that it actually happened, your counter-argument to the short statement is going to be a lot longer. Sure, you can answer "But that's wrong", but if you want to make it stick, you need to address many different things from several angles and that takes time.