The only episode that felt like it was cut back a little too much was The Living Force, the condensed version of the Mortis arc. The dialogue and story were fine, but the dream-like vibe and expansive setting felt like they should have breathed a little more - I wish there were more clips of the setting itself, not necessarily more dialogue or story.
Like I said, I haven’t actually seen the original, so I don’t know whether clips like that actually exist in that arc, but I think that’s a rare case where slowing down the pacing would actually help tell the story better (or at least help us feel its impact).
You know whats crazy is, that was one of the episodes my wife and I really didnt care for almost at all. It felt like it was explaining a little too much about the force, and adding lore that the force doesn’t need, and imo didnt feel integral to the characters plots. There was three things I liked from the episode:
-The quigon-anakin vision
-Shmi-anakin
-Dark Ahsoka
IMO, I would like to find a place to insert those quigon and shmi sequences elsewhere in the series as dreams for Anakin, maybe in another arc somewhere where Anakin is sleeping, entirely removed from this arc. I’d like to do the same with the dark ahsoka stuff but it seems too tied into this whole arc to be removed at all, but I feel like trhe shmi and quigon visions could really slot in somewhere else nicely.
Same with the yodas mystical quest episodes. Had some cool scenes but we werent fans.