doubleofive said:

So what was a strange hairy arm is Ponda Baba's hoof-like arm on the xvid, and is now Dr. Everzan's human arm on the DVD-5? WHOSE ARM GOT CUT OFF HERE?!

Just to recap, the debate raged something like this:

"The wolfman arm makes no sense, so here's Ponda Baba's flipper instead."

"That's cool, but a) it's not readily identifiable as a hand per se, thus robbing the shot of its original impact, b) said flipper would be incapable of holding that blaster, thus robbing the shot of any sense of logic, and c) the audio and visual cues make a strong case for Evazan being the one who gets chopped, established canon notwithstanding."

[then a whole mess of blah blah blah, some polite, some nasty, almost all of it cautiously defanged by prefacing it with "I love everything you've done with this edit and I have the deepest respect for your work, but that being said..."]

"Okay, how about this more textured shot of the flipper?"

"Very nice indeed, but again, see items a, b, and c above."

[blah blah blah, respect for your work but, and so on]

"Yeah, I suppose the Evazan hand makes sense now that you mention it. And it is my edit after all, so canon be buggered."

And that's more or less how we got the hand, which I think is very cool. Your mileage may invoke an outdated Internet cliché.

Ron Moses