OK, thanks to all your feedback, and bojangles’ work, I’ve got a rough cut of a properly edited Citadel arc.

I got through my edit-blindness for this episode by using a key editing principle: When in doubt, edit from back to front. I’ve been working through from the end to the beginning in ten-minute chunks. Much easier to decide what’s necessary and what’s not.

The start and end are relatively unchanged, and I kept all of the Anakin/Tarkin content and most of Ahsoka’s story, but I cut a lot of action (especially after they escape the landing platform; you can remove about ten minutes and it keeps the pressure way higher), and I removed the cutaway to Obi-Wan being captured and rescued, most of the Citadel’s weirder defenses, and most of the battle droid silliness.

I’m much happier with this now, and the pacing is far better.

I’ve got to polish and finish it but I’ll have it to you all soon.