Doesn't seem like there's any reason to be dicks about it. He didn't suggest totally redoing the shadow to be a better effect; he was just looking at transparency, and using the existing shape of the animation. Given how shit the GOUT is and how low-resolution the available LD rip alternatives are, unless Harmy's got some reference he's posted showing that the shadow was always totally opaque it's not outside the realm of possibility that the shadow element was printed at partial transparency originally. I mean, they knew how to do it a couple of years later, and a black blob is pretty easy to hide optical compositing lines in. YEs, everyone knows what the goal of the project is. Don't be such elitist douches.