This also eliminated the awkwardness of the Force push shot since Anakin was nowhere to be seen and not even hinted at though his actions should have placed him the shot's foreground.
The edit stayed the same after I adopted your placement of that line after Dooku's saber ignition, which I liked better. I like the flipped shot still since it removes Obi-wan's slightly clumsy cross-over in the following original saber clashes.
Glad to hear that you like the beginning of the video. I was rather proud of that bit. It's cool what can happen with the exchange of ideas here on the forum.
For Palpatine's facial expressions, maybe it would help to think of his two personas as distinctly separate, a truly evil character acting out his part as a good guy even though the audience knows differently. I'm trying to make his character more subtle in his corruption of Anakin.