have been able to watch it myself this morning. I’m not gonna repeat things that have already been pointed out.
The merging of the three episodes is seamlessly. Really great work.
As it stands with the cold open before the intro. For me it felt awkward at the point where the episode really started (in the barracks). you, well i, could tell that the cold open and the barracks scene belonging together and did get split due to some reason (taking the perspective of a newbie here). It wasn’t a smooth start for the episode.
i do believe it would be better to move the cold open to the beginning of the episode.
But i know this is a minor opinion. If you want to keep it as it is, i would suggest to do a really cold open - video and audio wise. No transitions into.
Other than that, well paced, emotional, didn’t felt like 50 minutes and loved the echo referring from fives, well done.