I honestly thought this was going to happen in the movie, and when this scene cut to the saber being picked up that was my first thought "Oh, I bet that was a studio cut thing."
I personally loved the Porgs and pretty much everything about this movie the farther away from it I actually get. There are plot holes, there are characterization problems, there are ugly moral consequences if examined hard enough, but I love that they gave us something bonkers from a stale recipe.
Plus, if you hate TLJ, you're a racist/misogynist, and that's a great tell for me to avoid you personally.
Haha, I loved The Last Jedi, but the amount of retardation coming from the publications shielding it from criticism are really something to behold. I saw a headline the other day that said "If You Hate The Last Jedi, It's Because You Hate Women" or something to that effect, and to my (unwarranted at this point) surprise, it wasn't satire.
I also saw a link to a torrent where a bunch of Roosh V types made an edit of the film, entitled "The Chauvinist Cut," to remove all the perceived GURL POWAH in the movie, which hacked it down to something like 40 minutes. I never watched it but I find the whole idea absurdly funny.