11. The flood part 2

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The enhancement in Version B continues as Yamato lines herself up in the path of the roiling space flood.

Though similar in composition, these two shots bracketed scenes of Captain Okita preparing to fire the Wave-Motion Gun.

The fatal burst tears Yamato in half, just like its World War II predecessor. This, of course, was another chance to apply color enhancement in Version B.

Another rare case of a revised scene that wasn’t an improvement: the crew watches the vast, flood-stopping explosion from the safety of the Fuyuzuke. Version A showed this clearly. Version B enhanced the scene to the point of blurring the ship out of view and then zoomed in to eliminate it entirely.

Next we cut inside for reactions from Kodai and Yuki. Here’s another scene that was completely redrawn for Version B.

Version A then cut in for close-ups of them both…

…while Version B stayed on the first shot and had Yuki move to Kodai and look away.

We then go back outside to see the waters of Aquarius reform into a self-contained mass. Enhancement effects were applied to Version B.

The waters coalesce in a long panning shot that goes to open space in Version A but includes a receding Aquarius in Version B.

Though taking on a substantial amount of water, Earth has escaped disaster. As with some earlier scenes, the planet was repainted for Version B.

Our last shot of the crew watching from Fuyuzuke. Version B zoomed in tighter on this shot and lost some picture resolution as a result.

The flood begins to calm and we see the top of Yamato‘s superstructure peeking out from the waves.

The storm abates and the picture widens. In Version B, the water was slightly transparent, letting some starlight through. This is also where the color enhancements ended.

Cutting out even wider, we see a different background and more water in Version B.

Mysteriously, a mostly-intact Yamato bursts out of the waves, trumpets its death knell, and slowly drops back down. This shot was retimed and reshot in Version B for a much longer descent into the watery grave.

The waves quietly lap for about a minute, and the two versions diverge for the last time. Version A goes to the epilogue and then the credit roll. B begins with the credit roll and then goes to the epilogue. In either case, the epilogue contains significant differences as we’re about to see.

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