Maybe it’s just because I really like episode 2, but I wonder if it’d be possible to just mostly cut episode 1 out of the show, and tighten up episode 2 for it to take up less screen time. What if instead of opening on the breakout sequence we open on Sabine unlocking the map? You could establish in the crawl that Ahsoka found a map to Thrawn and reconnected with Sabine for help opening it, and also establish that 2 former Jedi freed Morgan Elsbeth and are after them. Then you could open with Sabine opening the map and getting attacked by Shin and that could be the opening scene of the movie. Then you could make various cuts to episode 2 in an attempt to have it take up less screen time. That’d help to make the opening feel much faster-paced.