Yeah but the point is Lynch had it in the can… All the major plot points from the novel were covered in the script and no doubt shot so the material just needs to be released and why not?

This emphasises the failure of the TV cut even more that although the water of life sequence was reshot there was still the sub plot of Jessica being the traitor, Alia being unnacepted for who she was and so on.

The TV cut was never going to restore Sting killing the Sandakar captain on Geidi-prime probably due to violence or Doctor Yueh laser cutting the dead Harkonnen to get the message out of his body, Max Von Sydow killed by the Spice Blow of the sand trout baby worms. But even if we accept it as a censored version with terrible audio and two pieces of music playing simultaneously quite a few times. It is still a failure because it never re-integrated the material that was needed towards the end the Coam report and the true guild report about Spice was in serious trouble.

Everyone loves the thuffer huwat death scene that still never made the TV cut should it not be obvious that these scenes are the story just tell the story of Dune and stop worrying about offending people with content that is of more graphic nature and tell the story proprrly.