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18 Oct, 18 tweets, 6 min read

i'm watching the first episode of house m.d. out of curiosity but almost the entire episode is in monochrome other than flesh tones and i swear to god the house m.d. i watched on hulu in 2007 didn't look like this. i love the revisionist history of rereleases

@Emoji_Nakamoto

this is absolutely not how it looked when i watched it 15 years ago. what the fuck is this war crime color grading it looks like i died in a 1950s hospital and my ghost still haunts that place @Emoji_Nakamoto

the last movies i watched were 300 and sin city and they had more life and saturation in them than this. this is *not* what i watched in 2008.

who the fuck would color grade a rerelease like this? is this hell? am i being punished? fuck you

it appears they realized how badly they fucked up a few episodes into the first season

cuddy looks like a fucking monster. is this german expressionism? was this hand toned? who thought this looked good

what in the blue fuck is this? who approved this? who greenlit this pilot? what were people smoking in 2004?

let's be real, this is 2004 - people thought "HDR effect" tonemapping looked good

color grading is ultimately a bad idea, and shit should just look the way it did in real life. i honestly believe this and all arguments to the contrary fall flat on my ears

i can't believe this. did they air this? it looks like a movie about dying in prison. how did this pilot get approved????

there is absolutely, positively, no way that this is the footage that was accepted by the network. he looks like the patient he diagnoses with carrot overdose. this episode looks like Scrubs S5E7 "My Way Home"

did the color grader for this rerelease have deuteronopia or something? i can't picture how this got released. it's fucking ridiculous

i'm actually outright, proper angry about this. i'm furious that someone released this, which i'm positive is not what came out in 2004. it is trespass against the human race to lie like this. altering history, no matter how "unimportant," is an atrocity

all i have is my memory. all *anyone* has is their memory. unless someone has a betacam tape they can rip for us, all we can do is say "well, i don't THINK it looked like that"

a lie is a lie is a lie, the size of it doesn't matter, and i think *this* is a lie.

many people are saying this is how it looked when aired, and I can't argue with that, but god does it look bad. how did this get greenlit

god she looks like an andy warhol print

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