Hey Del! I’ll actually pick up editing this episode tomorrow.

The plan for Tartakovsky is basically as you say in terms of content. I’m not sure if I need the Nelvaan or Coruscant arcs, but my plan is to present a trimmed version of the Hypori and Muunilinst storylines as our episode zero. So that’d cover Muunilinst except for Durge (you’d just have the clones win that fight), with Anakin pursuing Ventress off to Yavin, and you’d have Hypori to introduce Grievous and bring that whole chapter to a close. I might include a little of Ilium, and Grievous training under Dooku. Then Anakin gets knighted and flies off into space.

I’ll trim things that aren’t vital to the story, but it’s Tartakovsky, so while it isn’t the tone I’m going for, it is super charming, so I don’t really want to meddle with his tone. So I will keep Anakin/Obi-Wan banter, and if I was including the sexy C-3PO scene I’d keep the sexy music. Though I don’t think I’ll need that.

I’m presenting it as episode zero rather than one, to emphasise that it’s an optional prologue.