While I was thinking about Citadel, I decided to watch Grievous Intrigue, in order to see if those two could be merged, since that thought came up recently.
They can’t. Grievous Intrigue is more about the rescue of Eeth Koth than his capture, so he can’t really be swapped out for Even Piell.
I then watched Deserter too, just for fun. I think there’s a decent enough Complete Cut episode here which is Grievous Intrigue then the Grievous/Obi-Wan parts of The Deserter, though with the battle droid bants heavily trimmed. It’s definitely not worthy of the Quality Cut though, it’s just not that important or great. Obi-Wan even says at the end “well we’re back exactly where we started”.
Speaking of The Deserter, the actual Deserter plot in that really is super. As discussed I think it’s sensible to merge that with the Gregor plot from Droids in the Void, and the traitor plot from Hidden Enemy. I think I’ll present this as ‘Tales of the Lost Clones’, in the order ‘Lost in Spirit’ (traitor), ‘Lost in Mind’ (Gregor), ‘Lost in Body’ (Deserter). I think I’ll pull this episode forward into my season two, for pacing and because it’s not been a clone-heavy season, so it’s OK to chuck in a clones-but-not-main-characters episode. This gives us a single punchy ‘clones are individuals’ episode, and highlights Rex as the ‘main’ clone character for the audience.
Note: This probably means I won’t merge traitor clone / stealth ship into a ‘Return to Christophsis’ episode.
Should be doing some more polish of my early episodes again tonight.