I’m on board with the weekly reveals!

I think the episode-merging can make sense for the earlier 2-and-a-half seasons where the arcs don’t have that much narrative cohesion and there aren’t many hints to their place in the timeline. At least for me (a continuity geek), moving a early arc to the later part of the series would take me out of the viewing experience; unless it’s done for reasonably good storytelling purposes.

I stand by my idea of a combined Cloak of Darkness/Lair of Grievous, if only to not lose the great action in the latter episode.

I agree Blue Shadow Virus isn’t that good and that it wastes the bio-weapon plotline; Sphere of Influence is just padding, and the first Mandalore S3 chapter is skippable.