News And the Next Animated Reconstruction is...
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Probably more creative liberties, and "The Macra Terror" already did a few - and as tastefully as impressively done, the story benefited a lot from animating more effective views and angles that the 1967 original couldn't have done.
If it's true that the remaining season 4 stories are to be animated, two things are certain:
a) a full blu-ray release for the eminently spectacular season 4 (it's one of the all-time great seasons, better than 5 IMHO), in a way that season 2 won't have unless they do a special release update for "The Crusades", which a lot of us would run out to buy on day one...
b) the chance of surviving episodes in the wild that are repairable are too slim to make any rational probabilities from, and by the time the private collectors want to part with theirs, those films will be in an attic or garage or anywhere where summer humidity will continue to accelerate their demise, in scrap heap decomposing, or for any number of reasons highly difficult to repair - if even possible; when the Troughton episodes were recovered a decade ago, a few excellent articles came out discussing the sheer level of work needed to restore them, along with the horror tales of the vinegar effect... I forgot the mention, the owners of the junked material will have been dead of old age for some time as well. At least they don't have copies of the Mona Lisa with the words scribbled in felt tip on the canvas reading "THIS IS A FAKE, AND BY ALL MEANS LEO DON'T CALL IT THE MOANING LISA! ENOUGH PEOPLE ON THIS SAD PLANET WHINE ALREADY, WAAAH!" (the Doc was a real case of walking irony...)
Even though the Mona Lisa was actually painted on wood...
Not the fake ones. Perhaps Scarlioni's plan wasn't so clever.
Yeah, but the Doctor must not have been too clever either, or he would've realized they were already obvious fakes with no need to write it down.
Basically, that's season three (Galaxy 4 to Toymaker) and The Space Pirates. Telesnaps for all (I think) other missing, or non-animated episodes.
And in those cases, we've got enough of DMP, Toymaker and Space Pirates to extrapolate what the remaining parts of those stories must have looked like. For Myth Makers and the Massacre, just starting over with the script and soundtrack and totally re-imagining them visually could only be an improvement on whatever John Wiles did.
Not sure about Toymaker. I suspect it started bright and fun and got steadily darker. That would fit with the surviving episode and the memories of those who saw it in 66.
Allegedly new funding has been secured and the animations will continue. This comes from Rob Ritchie who worked on a bunch of previous releases.
Woot! Great news if it's true!
Confirmation that there are more animated reconstructions in the works beyond The Underwater Menace. Executive Producer Paul Hembry has said that ultimately, he would like to complete the canon, and that they will continue to make them as long as there is interest from the fans and the consumers. All things considered, with the character returning for the 60th anniversary, animating the missing three episodes of The Celestial Toymaker and releasing it with seem like a natural thing to do.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-f...zep20puV4lWd83Q5wOcgkNQeRAMnG4jSWYxuu32L52_Sc
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-f...zep20puV4lWd83Q5wOcgkNQeRAMnG4jSWYxuu32L52_Sc
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-f...zep20puV4lWd83Q5wOcgkNQeRAMnG4jSWYxuu32L52_Sc
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-f...zep20puV4lWd83Q5wOcgkNQeRAMnG4jSWYxuu32L52_Sc
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Will they keep the "N" word in it?
Obviously not.
Judging by the audio quailty of the recordings i don't think they will have much trouble in removing or distorting it so that it's unintelligible.
If they want to save themselves some time and money, this guy's already done episode 1 for them (and done a bang-up job with it). Hire him to do episodes 2-3, and Bob's your uncle.
Good to know they're still pushing to do all of the remaining episodes as long as there is interest and funding.
To think, years ago, when we got The Invasion, so many of us never thought, never dared to dream that we could come even this close to completing the missing episodes catalog.
Yeah, some of the results have varied over the years, but I always love the effort that goes behind them. They're better than nothing at all and that alone is worth the effort.
To think, years ago, when we got The Invasion, so many of us never thought, never dared to dream that we could come even this close to completing the missing episodes catalog.
Yeah, some of the results have varied over the years, but I always love the effort that goes behind them. They're better than nothing at all and that alone is worth the effort.
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