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Was on board until this. Every single new Who announcement needs to have a Monkey's Paw now, doesn't it...
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I'd honestly be hyped to to see it in color even if it kinda goes against the initial format they made it specifically to be seen in using subtle color tricks like having the tardis console being actually light green because it showed up as more white on black and white film, but the cutting down of it for "modern audiences" is going to make things god awful. A lot of the iconic slow creeping dread type shots are gonna be lost, probably. Either that or the character interactions, probably both given the fact it was a few more episodes than the other one before it. Classic dr. who was filled with stories that carried that amount of episodes, weird how it's suddenly being framed as the "flaw" of the specific story that made dr. who extremely popular.
Kinda worried they'll add cgi shit in or redub the daleks with the modern voice like they've done in some other re-edits over the years.
God this reminded me I saw this thing back when it wasn't so easily available at a small scifi convention I went to in the early 2010s. They had like a late night showing of it in one of the little hotel meeting rooms on a projector screen, really chill time. it was a decent job of doing a cut-down version of the plotline, but also did weird shit like making the doctor a guy from earth that was building the TARDIS in his backyard basically. The Matt Smith daleks that never got a chance to actually show up in a main role beyond their reveal were based on the ones from this movie, kinda think if they kept the color schemes of the movie ones people would have had less of an averse reaction.
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Jesus Christ, watching this Tales from the Tardis thing is a fucking disaster.
7 old stories framed by new scenes with companions and Doctors. And all of it is incredibly fucking low rent.
A shitty fan-made looking Tardis set that looks like it was made in the 60s era of the series.
Everyone just looks old and haggard. And Colin Baker is almost as fat as Fatrick.
7 old stories framed by new scenes with companions and Doctors. And all of it is incredibly fucking low rent.
A shitty fan-made looking Tardis set that looks like it was made in the 60s era of the series.
Everyone just looks old and haggard. And Colin Baker is almost as fat as Fatrick.
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I detest both colorization and "trimmed for fucking retards."
IMO it's just vandalism. These people shouldn't be allowed to touch classic Who. Vermin.
It's too bad this sucked so much because Peter Cushing was actually good.
I have to admit the Colin Baker era was when I quit religiously watching. That had more to do with JNT than Colin Baker himself, but there was just so much shit in the show at that point, and that clown suit was downright offensive. The real deterioration had set in during Davison's run, although he more or less kept it together enough to keep that drunken pedophile JNT from ruining it entirely.
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Colin Baker is a treasure, he genuinely loves the show even though that pederast JNT ruined it when he was on, he would have been happy playing it forever. Also, he started getting fat after his son died of SIDS, you can see it between his first and second seasons, so you can't fault him really. Torque Wheeler got fat after he threatened to wait until his wife gave birth so he could kill both her and their daughter, so you're comparing apples and pepperoni.
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I personally wouldn't have really minded the colorization, but even as somebody with ADHD I disagree with trimming it down.
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Whenever I hear "appeal to modern audiences," I hear "appeal to subhuman pieces of shit, humans not wanted."
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I had to rate this dumb because its a dumb idea. This serial was already made into a movie.
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Feels like something that should be an extra on the blu-ray, not the main feature.
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Agreed but the market power for the "classic" series remains remarkably strong. And financially exploitable.
From a quick look on Amazon the blu ray box set of Peter Davison's series 20 (not the high point of classic Who) goes for 55 pounds. That's 12 hours of Who and it seems to move well (200+ sales last month). There's a blu ray box set of the first four series of "Nu Who" coming out later this month. Eccleston and Tennant are arguably the best received of the Nu Whos. The content is obviously much more recent and there's almost four times as much (41 and a half hours) but the price is that same 55 pounds. Again it seems to by selling well (200+ last month) but this makes a statement about the ongoing strength of Classic Who.
And as for Whittaker's Series 13 Flux blu ray box set; the asking price for that six hours is 15 pounds but that's not shifting nearly as well (50+ sales last month).
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Totally the better of the two movies, that plot was exciting cut down to movie length. The Daleks was more moody, atmospheric, and world building-y, having it be crazy long helped it.
What I'd love to see that no one else would ask for is a condensed version of The Keys of Marinus. 2 1/2 hours down to like 90 minutes would make people revisit it. It's one of my favorite Hartnells that gets no love. They had to write around his vacation in some episodes, there'd be easy cuts to tighten it up.
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Fuck that. Cut down recon of Dalek Masterplan.
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So I just got the urge to do the math since the dalek movie adaptations already existing and the whole "cut down for modern audiences" shit just got me thinking. People keep going "modern audiences don't have long attention spans !" but movies these days frequently clock in at 3 to 4 hours and there's the unholy abomination the "video essay" genre has become where it's people droning on and on for 5 to 7 hours about shit like a single 30 minute tv episode. Hours the millions that watch those could have spent watching the thing the video is talking about instead! Everything eats so much fucking time these days and it's usually designed to for maximum ad space alone.
The original storyline runs about almost 3 hours of content, which is the standard modern movie format of time. It'd work really well for an edit that strings it together into a theatrical release as a result. this however didn't, and probably now never will officially happen.
The movie adaptation from 1965 is much shorter, being 1 hour 23 minutes. This is normal movie runtime for the long period of time before modern movies started allowing plots to be longer. if it came out nowadays it'd probably be a lot less close to the source material.
This COLORIZED version of the original runs 75 minutes. which is roughly around the same timeframe as the movie adaptation, although the movie adaptation was specifically made as a movie adaptation, while this one is blatantly a severely cut down version of something made to fit a standard nuwho special runtime, though it masks that behind "modern audience" marketing words.
Long story short people can easily fucking watch the original runtime and whoever says otherwise is a fucking liar.
The original storyline runs about almost 3 hours of content, which is the standard modern movie format of time. It'd work really well for an edit that strings it together into a theatrical release as a result. this however didn't, and probably now never will officially happen.
The movie adaptation from 1965 is much shorter, being 1 hour 23 minutes. This is normal movie runtime for the long period of time before modern movies started allowing plots to be longer. if it came out nowadays it'd probably be a lot less close to the source material.
This COLORIZED version of the original runs 75 minutes. which is roughly around the same timeframe as the movie adaptation, although the movie adaptation was specifically made as a movie adaptation, while this one is blatantly a severely cut down version of something made to fit a standard nuwho special runtime, though it masks that behind "modern audience" marketing words.
Long story short people can easily fucking watch the original runtime and whoever says otherwise is a fucking liar.
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Now I have to start another watch through of classic who. Too bad a lot of the torrents (even on private trackers) are out of date often missing the lost episodes that were found in 2013 or later.
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Aren't they putting basically everything on Disney Plus soon? Obviously if you'd rather not give the rat money, then yeah torrents are best.
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You *should* be able to find most if not all of the classic series on Newsgroups including the animated recons. Back in the day that's how I acquired it.
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Do they still do the Twitch watch-alongs? I was peeking in and out of one a while back and it's fun to drop in and see people making weird comments all watching The Dominators together.
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Apparently, The Mirror wrote that McGann will get his own separate series on Disney+.
About fucking time.
About fucking time.