Just while I wait on some other stuff, I’ve been thinking about how I structure my future seasons. Since I have ~50 episodes (in my Quality Cut), and it felt right to define the Cad Bane arc as the finale of season one, that naturally extends out to giving us five seasons of eight to ten episodes each.

My current thinking is as follows:

The first season is relatively well defined. It’s about the opening strikes of the war, and Ahsoka’s natural skill getting refined into competency through the experience of failiure. Nice.
The final season is also relatively well defined. After the S4 finale (Ahsoka’s fall), it focuses on the growing mysteries in the run up to the end of the war, and there’s not much room to shift things around there. It pretty much goes: Scipio (using dialogue to make Anakin’s anger relate to the loss of Ahsoka), Order 66, Yoda’s quest, the liberation of Maul, Bad Batch, Martez, Siege of Mandalore. I might wiggle the order a bit but those are the beats.
Season two is the continuation of season one, showing the Republic straining to keep a hold on the Galaxy with the focus mainly on third parties until the Geonosis finale.
That leaves us with seasons three and four. Season three should open with Heroes on Both Sides, to give us proper shades of grey and start to question the binary conflict. Season four should end with Ahsoka’s fall. But in between there, very few episodes relate directly to one another, and these two seasons very much cover the majority of the larger standalone four-episode arcs from the original show. These arcs, I think, can go in pretty much any order, so I’d like to just find the strongest narrative here.
Season three, starting with Heroes on Both Sides, I think I’d like to cover the entirety of the Lux Bonteri trilogy. And making Onderon its finale I think would work perfectly well, since it’s about rebellion, Saw Gererra, etc. It would feel right as a season ending, especially if we fill that season with Lux.
Season four I think should end with Mortis (ominous, should go late in the show), followed by Sidious vs Maul, followed by Ahsoka’s fall.

But that still leaves most of the middle of seasons three and four. My main considerations are:

I’d like each season to have one clone-focused episode. (1) 501st (Domino Squad), (2) My ‘Tales of the Lost Clones’, (5) Order 66. Umbara is the missing link there, though whether I put it in season 3 or 4, I’d probably like to balance it against another relatively clone-heavy episode in the other season. Kadavo gives Rex a kicking, so that might be the right one to have opposite Umbara.
Obi-Wan has a fairly decent spread of episodes throughout: Death Watch, Return of Maul, another Maul fight, Kadavo, Rako Hardeen, and the big Mauldalore conclusion. That’s about one a season.
Padmé does about as well as possible and is fairly well spread, with: Cad Bane, Coruption on Mandalore, Heroes on Both Sides, Rako Hardeen, Scipio, and Ahsoka’s fall. It’s just under one a season, but you don’t miss her for too long.
BUT, more important than all of the above, I think, is getting Ahsoka’s arc right. I want her growth to be linear from S3 onwards, and be careful to be growing her every time. That’s the main thing I’ll put a bit more thought into. In this region she’s basically got Heroes on Both Sides, Hunted by Trandoshans, A Friend in Need, Slaves of Kadavo, Younglings vs Hondo, then her fall. It’s suprisingly light, so I think perhaps the right move is to keep the Lux arc together in Season 3, and instead have the Trandoshans and Younglings arcs in Season 4, to keep her presence felt there, even though I would have preferred to put the Trandoshans episode up earlier as it’s all about her growth. This way, Trandoshans could be something which reaffirms her commitment to Younglings, leading into that arc more formally.

Interested on others’ thoughts there.