I'm not exactly an OUT fan.

I'm a OUD fan (I'm fanatically devoted to the first two films).

The others I like bits of but see them as deeply, deeply flawed but historical significant films (the SEs sit in the same area for me as some of the changes work but many of them don't).

I don't have a problem with alternate versions of any film, just as long as the original versions are considered the prime versions and remain available for anyone to legally screen theatrically and watch at home.

This thread isn't about making changes anyway.

It's about how we personally would have done the films.

There are threads on the Fan Edit boards for actually changing the films and I support them wholeheartedly (including the two I'm fanatical about).

The official position that the 'SEs of the the hour' are the sanctioned versions of the films is undermined by having non-official SEs just as much as by people skillfully trying to preserve and maintain the OUT and people signing the petition to register their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.