This is brilliant. I had been thinking about how you could possibly restructure these episodes, but as you laid the plots of each episode, I started seeing exactly how you were going to lay it out. It almost seems obvious once you explain it like that.

You’re right. It is weird for Shaak-Ti to describe them as some of the best clones she’s ever seen, but then they are on some boring outpost job. It makes a lot of sense for them to flunk their training, and then get sent to some backwater job, because that’s all they’re qualified for.

And like you said, the focus really should be more on Echo and Fives, as these are the characters we stick with up until basically the end of the series.

I definitely think restructuring it like this will not only make it a stronger story, but it also succeeds at what you want this Refocused series to be.