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I love, love, love this kind of edit. Putting a revered, long-running TV franchise/series like this into a more easily digestible (not to mention coherent) form is a real public service, and BionicBob's love of the material shines through, from the care put into the artwork, the extras, the explanation featurettes explaining what has been changed and why -- this is a fantastic package, to say nothing of the edit itself.

Oh yeah, the edit itself! Well, by integrating parts of the pilot/TV movies into an early episode of the series proper as flashbacks, we're given an excellent in medias res explanataion of Steve Austin and his background, without a lot of tedious origin story buildup. Re-structuring and bobbing-and-weaving amidst continuity plotholes could have yielded a murky mess, but BB's edit has the narrative drive and thrills of a good modern action movie, and has left me eager to watch the rest of his Cyborg series.