^^^^^I wondered if anyone would get them. lol
"1982" still throws me for a loop, though, LOL... 3964?
Will this edit make the Doctor less of the antagonist?
(First episode at least.)
He wasn't technically an antagonist. The humans did intrude and saw the reality that space/time travel and transdimensionalism were possible advances and would alter the course of history. While emotive, his goal was the biggest-possible picture and it didn't help he had a bunch of bad experiences before arriving on Earth. "The Edge of Destruction" fills in a lot of narrative blanks and confirms the theme of "'savage' humans teach advanced alien a new trick". For 1963, that arc was phenomenally big...
Also remember, in "The War Games", how the time lords erased Jamie and Zoe's memories and then sent them home. Especially for Jamie, that knowledge would do
him a disservice as he'd not be believed and hung as a witch. I'm amazed the time lords didn't wipe all his companions' memories up to that point... They wanted to preserve Jamie as much as the Doctor wanted to preserve a greater chunk of causality. Only in different means.
You can find colorised clips from other B&W episodes on YouTube and they're pretty good.
Here's one that's fitting for the week of 'Tales of the TARDIS'.
A lot exist and some almost look photorealistic. That one is above average, but still looks like it was painted on. Especially with the telecine capture of 405-line videotape, having the computer farm render around the interlace lines doesn't help - they probably deinterlace first... now I want to pause a season 2 blu-ray release and see if they did do interlacing...
I'm not sure about colourizing, though the process has to be better than the early days of trying to turn classic black and white movies like Casablanca into colour movies. But I'll give it a shot. If I don't like it, the original version will still exist, as will the full colour Cushing version of the story.
(Is there anyone who likes classic Who but hasn't bothered with the two Cushing movies? If so, you're missing out, they're fun.)
Or, worse, "Gilligan's Island" and its colorizing. It's not bad, but it was from the early days.
Colorizing will always exist and methods improved, and even I will admit that adding color could make an already great presentation just a little bit better. But am glad the originals will still be around. They didn't always like being stuck with B&W, but they sure did make the most with it. And, yep, the blue balls on the Daleks are for the benefit of translating to the b&w taping process, not to be "sixties trippy"...
But chopping up the story to speed pacing is a tricky thing. It arguably failed for Davison's stories (Enlightenment, Planet of Fire), and the early Hartnell era has a more exploratory feel to it. But we'll know later this month...
The Cushing versions are a mixed bag. They do Susan much justice but feel like a direct influence and predecessor of the RTD era far more than McCoy's era ever alleged to have done. The Invasion story, complete with cereal ad, isn't without its strengths, but I found the original story as shown on TV to feel more expansive. The movie feels like a lesser script was given a larger budget and it's never done too much for me with any viewing and I saw it last with the 4k release (which is of supreme quality and is, in fact, most worth purchasing...) But "Invasion of Earth 2150" definitely holds up better. At least for me... there's a thread waiting in the wings to make, on how people feel of the Cusihing entries...
