Thoughts on Seven Warriors:

I agree that this is a good introduction to the seasonal theme of bounty hunters, as well as Hondo. However, if you are keeping the original thematic focus for season 2, it seems odd that you would split off the Cad Bane episodes from being included as part of that to be the season 1 finale as opposed to leaving it as Ryloth. If we’re trying to keep thematic cohesion, you properly label season 1’s as “conflicts erupt in the early days of the clone wars”, and the battle of Ryloth feels like a proper capstone to that (This is also one of my hesitations to include the Nightsisters arc in S1). If this was because you wanted to keep each season to 10 “episodes” then I would definitely encourage you to not be too concerned with that aspect; some narrative aspects are going to have more content than others and it would be better to keep them grouped based on those aspects.

I was wondering if you would remove Hondo’s lines about having already met Anakin and Obi-Wan, but after watching the scene again, I think it probably makes up too much of the conversation to not have its absence be extremely noticeable.