Cuz it wasn’t explicit enough

Ah, okay Helen names him Ulysses at the end of the extended version, hence the Ulysses cut….

Lee Arenberg (left)

Left is original cut, and right is Ulysses Cut. When Deacon steals Enola off of the Mariner’s ship in the Ulysses Cut he also takes the Mariner’s stack of National Geographics (“the acreage!” he gasps) but with that cut out of the original version, instead we get a scene later (after the boat’s been destroyed and is nothing more than a raft) Mariner is going thru his surviving things he still has those magazines secured in a waterproof container (along with Enola’s dry-land drawings that weren’t in the box).

Edit: okay just cut a LOT differenty, they get rescued by Gregor, the inventor scientist in both versions, and meet up with the survivors of the atoll, in the original he’s seen the drawings and goes on to rescue Enola. In the Ulysses Cut he takes one of the survivors boats and goes back to his wreckage and then sees the drawings. He is alone on his wreck when he finds them and the backup stash of natgeos.

Then smokers arrive at the survivors camp (i mean it’s half a dozen small boats lashed together) and that’s why there’s a jetski there.

The Deacon of the Church of Eternal Growth.

not his fucking waterlogged and dusty Miles Davis CDs working in a an equally ancient discman after 5 centuries!!!

the debriefing scene with the pilot - skyboat captain - is cut differently. There’s more intro to it in the Ulysses cut and crying about dearly departed Ed but then the og has a longer back end to the scene where Deacons goes on about where the Mariner’s heading.

In the Ulysses cut that part comes after the Mariner’s confrontation with the drifter played by Kim Coates (and then some).

SMEAT

Where was I? Oh yes the 500-year old crayolas

Waterworld: The Ulysses Cut (1995)