No, I’m pretty sure he was saying your colors were almost perfect to him and he didn’t change much. So, it is something else than that. It actually looks pretty good… too good.
It’s indeed pretty confusing. He started out wanting to color the TN1 grindhouse like Harmy’s release. But it was proving impossible (this was before Dre’s tool). So he instead did a 180 and re-colored Harmy’s based on Grindhouse in a way that is not quite clear (an adjusted grindhouse version he didn’t share?). The end result was that he made some shots look more neutral. I thought some of the shots looked pretty good, but the skin tones were a bit messed up and I think there were some other problems.