zombie84 said:

The problem was that there was no branching for the original version of the scene in the theatrical cut, there was only the one version of the scene with the gold colouring regardless of whether you were watching the supposed original cut. I don't know why they just didn't put two versions of the scene, one with the original darker colouring to branch for the theatrical and then one with the golden hue version to branch for the DC.

zombie84, I'm not sure I get what you mean about giving an option for merely this one single scene alone. Seems a little impractical, and it certainly wouldn't have gone far in improving things for me.

Just to clarify, I'm cheesed-off that the whole of the 'Theatrical' cut of ALIEN on the 'Quadrilogy' dvd boxset (and the individual 'Director's Cut' dvd release too) had the identical colour-timing of the tampered-with 'Director's Cut' throughout, compared to it's previous dvd releases. I was hoping that this new tampered-with colouring wasn't going to be the new 'default' look for the 'Theatrical' cut from hereonin, but it seems it probably is, regardless of 'branching' issues. Everyone's preferences aside though, what I find curious is the notion that this single scene alone may indeed have been restored to it's original colouration again for this blu-ray release, judging by Bill Hunt's comments...