Well, I’m late to the party. I guess I’ll throw in an idea from my own edit (or at least from v3 and beyond).

One thing I did to fix Episode I’s structural problems was pull a switcheroo. In the theatrical version, we had two scenes that threw the second act off. The first was Amidala’s final conversation with Palpatine on Coruscant, and the scene after is the jedi council’s rejection of Anakin. I decided to switch these two scenes around. Anakin gets rejected first, and Amidala decides to leave for Naboo next. This makes Anakin’s rejection by the council the film’s lowest point. However, it does come with a bit of a caveat: the nighttime skies aren’t very consistent anymore. First, you have the extremely dark blue night during Anakin’s rejection. Then, we go to Amidala’s conversation with Palpatine, where the sun is only just setting. Finally, we arrive back at the landing pad, which is extremely dark blue again. I think there might be a way to fix this through color grading, but I suppose it would be interesting to ask someone who might be more of an expert on this than I am.