Midsummer Dreams - An Analysis of Mendelssohn’s Overture op. 21

This video is an analysis of Felix Mendelssohn's Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream primarily using sonata theory. Some discussed concepts include:
Program Music
Introduction-Coda Frames
S zero Modules
Dr. Larry Todd's Motivic analysis
Sources
Elements of Sonata Theory - James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures - Dr. R. Larry Todd
Artwork in Video (in order of appearance)
Titania & Bottom - Sir Edwin Lanser
Theseus & Hippolyta find the Lovers - Francis Wheatley
The Mechanicals - H.C. Selous
Oberon & Titania - Thomas Stothard
Recording: Charles Mackerras conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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[@jayinvariant7095]

Good choice of topic -- this is is music that rewards attention!
About splitting the episodes or not: Your content requires a good amount of attention. So if you did a 40m episode, I'd probably pause it at the start of the development section myself -- 20 minutes of sonata theory is already a hearty meal :) This one at 33m is probably as much as I can handle in one sitting.
So in summary, I think you made the right choice with the split episodes in the past. And I also think this particular episode didn't need to be split, but it is in the upper range of what is digestible.

[@sonatahewrote]

wow that is really helpful feedback! thanks so much. Maybe a good rule of thumb would be any piece where just the exposition takes 20+ minutes should probably get a 2nd part