I’d say so. I do have an attachment to them. At the time, I didn’t realize how significant they were or how valuable they’d become. I hadn’t heard George’s words, so I didn’t realize what a big deal it was for him to relent on this, however half-heartedly and passive aggressively he did it.

Once I became fed up with the further changes on the Blu-rays (and I noticed the glaring problems with the 04 versions), the GOUT became my default way to watch the films for many years. I just couldn’t go back to the late 90s CGI pasted onto a 70s film, so I just stuck with my GOUT copies, though the low quality probably caused me to watch the films less often. In hindsight, if I had known what George had said in that MTV interview, I would have watched those copies more enthusiastically. I know that George is a good, charitable, kind-hearted man, but he really comes off as smug and out of touch in that transcript.