This is where is gets difficult to edit as we go. What I generally do is edit the setup first and then the finale. I then go back to the middle episodes and pick up the necessary threads.

I doubt it, but it is a possibility that this entire episode could be cut. We’ll have to wait and see. I agree with you guys, the clan needs to be removed. We just need to keep the scenes of the crew looking around the houses and then going to the tower. There are 2 challenges here…. Jod and SM-33 being left on the ship and the trigger for them heading to the tower.
I’ll have to play around with it this evening, but there may be an option to edit it without Jod and SM-33 being left on the ship, but it may seem obvious that they aren’t present when the kids are looking around the house. If that isn’t possible then it may be a challenge to reunite them without the clans being included.
The tower trigger could be solved with AI dialogue for one of the kids or from Jod.
I was also surprised by the lack of any parent scenes on At-Attin. We know there are more to come from the trailers. It would really help the editing of this episode to have a scene or two on At-Attin to fill in the editing gaps.