Personally, I think the order of scenes at the start of the movie is fine. Reordering them makes a bit more sense if you want to remove the “who is she” thing, but even then…

Let me stew on that.

I will play with the Sith whispers thing, but if anyone has the chance to first, feel free!

What does everyone think of having an allusion to DOTF as the acolytes kneel in front of Palpatine? I think it was brought up before and shot down. If it sounds diagetic and isn’t tracked, I think it could work. Maybe even enough not to need to use it for the DSII duel.