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Is this the "green edition" still??

Holding off til they fix that and I've seen it for a much better price than this as well...

What is the 'green' edition?

What is the 'green' edition?

The Color Change: An Unexpected Journey

If you haven't been embroiled in the debate over the revised color timing that graces the new Extended Edition release of Fellowship of the Ring, you may soon be. The differences in color and contrast between the extended cut's 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer and its theatrical cut presentation are unmistakable; the differences in color and contrast between the EE's presentation and that of its 2002 Extended Edition DVD counterpart are as well. Shadows are darker, saturation has been dampened in key scenes (the Council of Elrond, in particular), crush is now more problematic than before, and greens and cyans, though already heavily at play in the film's original palette, have been slightly intensified throughout, in some cases during sequences that once featured very little green or cyan at all. In fact, all objective analyses show that a blanket tint is present over the entire film. It isn't always apparent -- reds are still red, blues are still blue, they're just different shades of red and blue -- but it is always there. Most of the resulting debate at the moment, though, should center around film revisionism. Both Peter Jackson and director of photography Andrew Lesnie have confirmed that the new color grade was intentional and was created under their supervision. To those who are upset by these changes in principle, to those who believe a film should remain untouched, I sympathize and, I have to say, I agree to some extent. I would remind you, though, that this is Peter Jackson's extended cut; he has always made it clear that his extended cuts are not his Director's Cuts, nor the versions of the films he considers canon or sacrosanct. They are meant to supplement, not supplant, the theatrical cuts. Lest we forget, the extended editions have been an exercise in revisionism since their inception. The fact that the color changes weren't made to the 2010 theatrical version -- effectively preserving Jackson's original vision -- should take some of the sting out of the issue.

The poop:

I don't think I can get my kids to sit through the Extended edition unless we are snowed in for the weekend with no internet!

Repped for the info. My translation - we got this idea in our heads, screwed it up royally when we tried to make it work (think JarJar), and rather than admit our mistake and recall thousands upon thousands of discs and delay a release - it's deliberate, yeah, we intended to screw it up.