Yeah, and this is certainly our strongest politics episode.

There’re two things which make people remember an episode as “good”. The first is a good narrative - a good holistic character or story arc which takes you on a good journey. The second is a good moment, which can make an otherwise ungood episode considered good.

There are certainly examples where good moments seek to make people think an episode is good, even if actually the narrative isn’t that great and the experience of watching the episode is a bit underwhelming.

In this case though, Heroes on Both Sides has a good narrative (with the Mina Bonteri plot), whereas Pursuit of Peace is a far less interesting narrative but with one particularly strong moment (Padmé’s speech). The task then becomes crafting a new story which preserves and enhances both, dropping anything which is neither a strong moment or a strong narrative.