Having now reviewed all of the individual elements that comprise Smudger’s first movie, which merges Christophsis, Grievous Intrigue, and Domino Squad (plus one scene from Assassin which you wouldn’t miss). It really is brilliant, if you’re willing to merge arcs - and gets away with it because it merges them so elegantly that it appears to all deliberately tie together as it goes. All of the moments I’ve enjoyed whilst doing my original reviews have been included, and Grievous’ plot is enhanced to make him appear very tactically capable. Both of these arcs deserve to be placed right up front, too.

I think, with all much deserved respect to Smudger, that it could do with a little tightening of a couple of elements which we don’t need to linger on where it does slow down a little (a bit less stealth ship, none of the traitor clone this early), plus the inclusion of two very short scenes (one where the council ask Ahsoka to stay out of the next battle, and one from Rookies where it’s made a bit clearer that we’re dealing with familiar characters, since they become more important later).

That all is, if it does remain sensible to present it in this way as opposed to split. I’ll leave this to mull over whilst I get a feel for what the rest of the show needs.