Regarding the pod race edited scene, I like the suspicious look the scene gets when the editor reverses the camera movement in the establishing shot; it feels more menacing and otish that way.
It's an interesting concept; you reverse the shot, so that the camera instead of approaching a point, reveals a bigger panorama. I wander how many cases of that sort could we have all throughout the PT.
Maybe it could work at some point in AOTC and ROTS, but don't know where... thoughts?