I quite agree (and have said so many times) that the SE's existence wouldn't be a problem at all if the original was available in comparable quality. I do enjoy alternate cuts of other films and it's a matter of personal taste. That is not the point though, the point is that the SE is irrelevant (and highly deceptive to the uniformed viewer) when talking about the history of ILM. Sure, they would have wanted to use digital compositing instead of optical or even CGI if it was available at the time but the point is it wasn't and they achieved something wonderful with what was available. It's like it's quite possible that Picasso would have loved to use Photoshop for some of his paintings if it was available back then, but if you take a picture from Picasso and recreate it in Photoshop, it's not going to be the same picture and it can hardly be used to demonstrate Picasso's brush techniques.

AntcuFaalb said:

When did Harmy yell at you? Which post #?

I'd quite like to know this as well. I'm trying to be nice most of the time. Sometimes I just type an answer quickly and it might come of as snarly or something but it's usually not meant that way.