I think even including the first Kleya/Luthen flashback would be useful as gives the viewer some idea of how long they’ve been together and illustrates Luthen’s breaking point with the Empire- which starts a long chain of events that eventually leads to its downfall
I may well do that. At the moment it’s just a first cut, and a pretty rough one at that…… more of a proof of concept to check that a single movie was possible in terms of time and dealing with the time skip.
With that plan finalised I’m now going back to finish episode 3, which is about 95% done.