Thanks! Like I said, it would be a tight fit, but Padmé is one of the big three of the prequels, so I feel like it would be nice to give her a more active role in the film if it’s possible.

And you would have to trim a few lines from each scene for it to make sense, so it would shorten them but maybe it would help maintain a brisk pace?

The most important thing is that they’re positioned appropriately for it to make sense. At the moment that positioning is the only one I can think of that would work, but maybe there are other options.

And as I mentioned, just putting the Padmé/Palpatine scene first and the “Seeds of the Rebellion” scene second would help set up Padmé as a founder of the Alliance, but adding the final scene could help link Bail with the Jedi and create more doubt and tension between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padmé. Could be interesting.