While checking out the recent upscales and uploads of ReBoot episodes, there were multiple times that had me thinking "wait, I don't remember it sounding like this". The two episodes that stood out to me were Quick And The Fed and The Crimson Binome, and luckily the episodes I had burned onto DVD-Rs years ago were of YTV broadcasts. I assume the newer variations come from (some of?) the DVD releases, given all stories I've heard about their audio problems. I like the original versions better.
These are just some examples of music differences, and is by no means thoroughly researched or comprehensive. I noticed another difference while clipping The Crimson Binome that I didn't include, and I wouldn't be surprised if more instances exist.
(go to the youtube video for clickable timestamps) 00:00 - QATF version 1: Bob BSnPs through the window. 00:18 - QATF version 1: Skeleton fight. 01:38 - QATF version 1: Running up the stairs, no music. 01:54 - QATF version 2: Bob BSnPs through the window, music ends differently. 02:14 - QATF version 2: Skeleton fight, with completely different music. 03:38 - QATF version 2: Running up the stairs, now with music. 03:52 - TCB version 1: Boarding the Saucy Mare. 04:41 - TCB version 2: The music track is used differently, with a pause for Dot's line, and keeps going after Frisket gets filelocked. 05:32 - TCB version 1: Business talk, no music. 06:27 - TCB version 2: Are you tired of the pirate theme yet
I never really had any doubts, but the new master tape rip of Quick And The Fed is out and it's the version with the trumpet-y music during skeleton fight and the musicless stair climb.
But why make those changes in the first place? I can maybe see someone viewing those musicless scenes and (wrongly) thinking they needed to add in music, but why change the music of the scenes that already had it?
Bizarrely the upload of The Crimson Binome is the altered version that overplays the pirate theme. But:
