All good thoughts. On the music, the episodes always at least end with the first two piano notes that transition into the credits part of the outro theme, but sometimes I extend the track backwards into the end of the episode’s body, for the sentimental/melancholy feel as you say. One thing I’ve never yet done is incorporated music from another source, such as a soundtrack, or things like Cad Bane’s new theme from Bad Batch into his episodes of Clone Wars. Mainly this is because I don’t have any musical background so I’ve no idea how I’d blend it and transition properly into the end credits - normally I just use the basic fades in my editing software. Perhaps I should look into using audio from other sources at certain points, and properly learn how to do that.