I got the animated reconstruction of The Evil of the Daleks from the library. I got all three discs (which I had to request separately) before finding out that each one was a different version -- B&W 4x3 animation on disc 1, color widescreen on disc 2, telesnap reconstruction on disc 3. I decided that an animated recon couldn't be visually faithful anyway, so I might as well just go all-out and watch the color version. And all the features on disc 1 are also on 2 or 3, aside from a PDF file, so I just skipped disc 1 altogether. Good thing I just borrowed them.
Anyway, I think the story is somewhat overrated. It's got some good things going for it, especially once they get to Skaro, but it's way too padded, a couple of episodes longer than it needed to be. Every time Ruth Maxtible or Arthur Terrall showed up, I found myself thinking, "Why are they even in this story?" Then there's the total gibberish of Theodore Maxtible's all-done-with-mirrors time travel theory, but I guess maybe we can assume that it was the Daleks' technology that latched onto his experiment and made it work.
The continuity is weird too. The Daleks want Waterfield to capture Jamie with the Doctor, but this is the only serial in which Jamie and the Daleks ever interact, since he wasn't introduced until after "The Power of the Daleks," and "Evil" is the last Dalek story until the Pertwee era. So how did the Daleks even know Jamie existed? And why did Jamie act as though he was familiar with them? Well, it was implied that the Doctor talked about them a lot, but it was still weird.
Did they use the Loose Cannon reconstruction for the third disc? I remember that one having CGI sequences in the same places this one does. It looks like they also shot some live footage of Daleks and a Victoria double at the original location.
