I did a job not too long ago that involved a big celebrity and a major marketing announcement. It was all a big rush. Lots of last minute logo removals (they shot in times square). We made our deliverables, all correct, all on time. When it went live we checked it out on someones phone. They had uploaded the rough cut.
āā¦somehow does not have any of the post-production edits added inā¦ā
āEdits.ā 
Those crew members were always in there. We just couldnāt see them in HD. Itās incredible the little details 4K brings out.
I love a good fuck up.
My favorite is the not-screen-replacement of a cash register in Equalizer 1, complete with tracking marks. I laughed out loud (and itās a robbery sceneā¦ 
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Funny thing is, itās usually the VFX dept that gets blamed for these errors, when itās editorial. I worked on a shot in House of the Dragon, where the original plate was in the episode broadcast instead of my comp.
Was it a Starbucks cup @paul_round
Not that one, Matt Smiths jogging pants.
Not really a VFX fuckup but I love this one.
I get the impression that this is just generating awareness for a 10 year old tv show so that more people put eyeballs on it.
I have heard through the grapevine that the work was done on the cheap and was such a miserable process that at the end no one gave a flying fuck. It could even be that someone did it on purpose out of spite (I have zero evidence of this) but I believe in the long run, the effect will be as you describe: more eyeballs on the show when it gets properly released.
yet another reason why vfx should have always been an above the line proposition instead of the ārace to the bottomā misery that it has become.
good vfx work should have been an āattachmentā that producers used but they were sort of busy starfucking, eating avocado toast and leasing cars they could never affordā¦
Could be the fixed shot was done. Never made it into the color render.
This is the case in every single incident like this that I know of.
The PPS is responsible for checking every shot in every episode. Full stop.
From what Iāve heard, itās not even the show. Itās basically just a stringout of shots.
After reading this article it sounds to me like the āmajorā vfx like creating environments was all in tact but somehow the ācleanupā process got skipped in the re-issue.