Harmy said:

thecolorsblend said:

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GOUT. It's just the best option that I've got ready access to. Besides, I've got little or no use for fan edits and such nonsense.

The choices are only limited if you allow yourself to be limited by blindly condemning fan efforts.

In defense of thecolorsblend, the existence of "fan preservations" as a subset of "fan edits" is counterintuitive to many, and certainly unknown to most (even members of this forum may simply never check that part of the forum). I'm a relatively recent member of this forum and the existence of fan preservations was a major, world-shaking revelation for me.

The whole idea that fans, using (mostly) home video releases, could create a better-quality product than studios who actually have access to film masters and tons of expensive equipment seemingly defies logic. That's why "the GOUT is as good as it gets" is such an entrenched opinion. Not to mention that fan edits are almost entirely used to modify films to the whims of the fan and are often dismissed outright without realizing that there can be other motivations. So yes, there's some blindness here, but I can understand where it comes from.

I'd also recommend dark_jedi's preservations in addition to Harmy's. Right now DJ makes my favorite SW and ROTJ, and Harmy makes my favorite ESB. Although Harmy is well on his way to making my favorite SW too.