As I take a little break, I’m just watching through some of the episodes I’m sure I’m excluding, to see if they have any elements worth preserving. Most of this will likely come to nothing, and I’m not going to force it into places it doesn’t belong, but I’m taking stock of what I have here.
Evil Plans has a few things I might add into the Holocron arc. A couple of good shots of Bane’s crew getting into speeders (to help with the ‘putting together a crew’ element), and some cool Bane quotes - “Cad Bane, at your service, for a price.” “I’m your worst nightmare”. I might also borrow the nice Anakin/Padmé cuddle to cap off an episode sometime if I need it. Padmé also has a good line “you should really lighten up”, which might be fun as they start to come into conflict.
Hunt for Ziro has more good Bane lines - “I hate it when someone does my job”, “the separatists are paying a million a head for Jedi”, and a good sassy Obi-Wan one, “I never did enjoy hanging out with you.” The hutt dancers are quite good, except for Sy Snootles, so I might try to preserve some of their song “Dan Hutt Oola” for the later episode where the Hutts encounter Maul, if that’s possible.
There’s almost some usable stuff here when Bane talks to the Hutts, but there’s nowhere for it to lead to. Similarly, the Bane/Obi-Wan/Quinlan fight is cool, but the only thing you could use it for is to prelude the Rako Hardeen arc with Bane’s capture, but I don’t think it could really be recontextualised as that.
Downfall of the Droid has a good back and forth between Anakin and Ahsoka about real world experience versus academy training. Obi-Wan also says “Grievous’ spies have intercepted our trandmissions”, which might work somewhere. There’s some good Ahsoka lines - “May the force be with you, master”, “Hit it, Rex!”, and “Follow me, boys!”
The separatist listening post in Duel of the Droids is quite a nice design, so if I need to relocate a scene and it doesn’t matter where it’s relocated to, I might use this just because it looks nice. I could use Nal Hutta’s establishing shot for the planet, since at range it matches the colour scheme and Nal Hutta looks nice too.
Bombad Jedi features a lot of inspirational Padmé lines, which I may use in my upcoming Corruption on Mandalore arc, because if I remember right I planned to use some Padmé up front from the first episode, before transitioning into the Academy stuff.