I am happy to see that Power Station has been improved over the initial remaster and our feedback being incorporated.
I like your feedback and I would say that the biggest and most important change I’d like to see in Power Station is to have a better more powerful final ending. This seems to be one of the biggest problems I’ve seen in a few of the remasters including Thin Air. The original Sufferfest videos almost always had epic finishes. A sprint or a KOM or some battle to the finishline that thrilled you and made you want to push past whatever limits you thought possible.
There were so many times that I rode Thin Air or ISLTA or Power Station, or Defender, or Butter, or Cobbler, and I felt completely wiped out and I had no idea how I was ever going to make it to the end of the final effort. And yet, the storyline and the epic videos made me keep pushing all the way to the end and gave my legs strength I didn’t know I had.
There’s a thread somewhere in the depths of this forum about which SUF workouts had the best climactic endings. And there was a lot to choose from. And unfortunately, we’ve lost a lot of them.
There’s defintely a time and place for videos of teammates riding easy across the finish line or gifting the win to one or the other. However, when the workout storyline is pushing you to an epic sprint finish, these endings could be changed to match. Just like how to doesn’t make sense to have videos of riders on flat roads or downhills when the storyline is about climbing steep hills.
So, with all the great improvements that have already been made, hopefully these endings can be improved as well.
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I wouldn’t count on it, sadly. I think it’s a matter of skill set and resources. But, I’d be VERY pleasantly surprised and quite happy if I were wrong. My goal in riding and reviewing these was simply to determine whether I could ride them again if they came up in a plan or the workout profile matched what I was after that day. So, with the list of the unsullied and the list of repeatable Re-remasters™, for my purposes at least, I’ve got a pretty okay catalogue to choose from.
The first set of remasters after Sir Francois left The Company were unrideable imho (prior to requesting our feedback) with some even unwatchable.
To be clear, I don’t treat the Re-remasters™ in the same way as I’d treat the unsullied SUF vids where the love of the sport and the artistry in matching our efforts with the onscreen content and story line, while simultaneously adding the perfect amount of humour, intensity, motivation and music were the standard set by Sir David and matched (if not exceeded in some ways) by Sir Francois.
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Agreed. I should probably move my comments to the remaster feedback thread rather than sullying your excellent thread you have going here. All the same, these really are some constructive add-ons to your comments on how to improve the remasters to make them better remasters with the same view you’ve explained. They may never be the same as the originals, but based on the level of remasters, those seem like small adjustments that the current crew could definitely make by simply finding better footage from what they have current access to.
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I have bookmarked this thread. Thanks so much!!
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Some of us diehards, downloaded all the videos after the first remaster attempt. I just hope my hard disk never dies, or maybe I should put them in the Sufferlandrian cloud.
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Understood!!
I had ALL of them downloaded but SYSTM was getting unusably glitchy and a typical uninstall/reinstall did nothing to improve it. So, I did a full uninstall which meant all my downloads disappeared too 
. It forced me to do the Re-remasters and hence the decision to post my reviews.
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I wonder if you just copied them to another directory on an external drive, then download all the workouts, then copied over them from the external drive, would the software know the difference?
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