Yeah, a friend of mine suggested changing the theme music every chunk of episodes, but that sounds like waaaay too much effort to be honest. And I’d rather the start feel more tied to the ending.

Right, I’m now looking at the edits proper, taking each episode in detail.

Currently working on my s01e01, which is just the Ahsoka elements of the Christophsis arc (and technically the rest of the movie, though I’m cutting the entirely of the Hutt baby storyline).

Since I don’t think the stealth ship belongs in the show (plus it’s a slow episode), and I don’t think we should explore traitor clones this early in the show (it’s literally the first episode), I’m left with some good material from the first two episodes.

There’s such good material to make Trench the threatening captain of the Malevolence, so I’m going to continue to explore that idea.
The actual traitor clone stuff is fine and is almost entirely in interiors, so it could be placed later in the show, so long as you start with a republic failiure which could reasonably be internal sabotage, and find a sensible place for these ten minutes.
The remainder of those episodes can be combined to give us a nice intro before Ahsoka’s, I think. First we see them delivering supplies to Bail (I’d hoped to preserve that), then they bike over to where Ventress is camped out (which contains some good dialogue about how much it’s obviously a trap, which helps to justify how they knew to get there), then while they’re fighting Ventress the bombers target Bail, and shortly after this sequence we drop into the original Ahsoka part of the movie where they talk about a comms blackout. I think that’s all a nice way to add some fun sequences and introduce Ventress without wasting too much time, and to make it look like the separatists were a few more chess moves ahead than expected - worth all the more when Ahsoka’s the one to deliver victory.