Fortunately (or unfortunately for those waiting) I am only a third of the way through the film, so I'll be sure to fix those highlights before continuing. Comparing the Blu-ray recovered highlights to the HDTV broadcast highlights shows almost negligible improvement to the detail, so rather than redo what has been done, I'll leave the broadcast highlight details for the first third of the film and improve the process going forward.

I'm just amazed that there was an encoding issue like this for the Blu-ray. Did nobody watch this on a normal TV before sending it out?