Interesting, but that would only involvr an ok from one family.
Maybe, maybe not. It's a difficult position for the BBC because they obviously want to commission animations.
I guess the thing is that any extra episodes will probably also come back in small numbers so we're not talking about complete stories.
So if they're currently working on animating The Myth Makers for example, if one episode turns up it probably doesn’t change the calculation. They’ve just got an episode to add to the release.
*sigh*
People are already highlighting AI upscaling fails in the S21 set.
People are already highlighting AI upscaling fails in the S21 set.
I'm really hating the upscale stuff. I have several of the blu ray seasons and really like them, but I will never spend money on stuff like that. I don't know why they think bad ai upscaling is preferable to just uncompressed DVD quality, but its certainly soured these releases for me.
They also animate the full story even when live action episode exist. So, finding missing episodes doesn't change the calculations cost-wise and time-wise for the animations.
So you're right, if one turned up, they'd just add it to the collection.
The one exception is probably the most relevant one - I doubt a 12-part animation (13 including Mission to the Unknown) would be viable, but they could maybe fill in the gaps now there are five existing. Seven episodes might be doable.
Given it doesn't feature any of the regular cast they could use the student movie version of MTTU.
I still think the Levine commissioned version remains the best one, frankly. But this one's not bad at all!
Yeah that Mission animation was a professional pitch, so it's excellent. If it could be cleared, that would be a perfect solution.
I expect the UCLAN remake will be on the disc too, since it's officially sanctioned by the BBC.
I'm not sure about that. The BBC seems pretty dead set against forcing viewers to watch a mix of live-action and animated episodes. Personally, I don't mind that at all. It's how I normally watch them. Live-action when possible, otherwise animated. But it seems like there are enough viewers who don't like that to make the BBC hesitant to force that.
But yeah, if it it increases the chance of getting DMP animated, I'm all for just animating the missing episodes!
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So a season 6 set will include complete animations for the rest of The Invsasion, then? How about Ice Warriors and Reign of Terror?
I think the point being made was recent animations [of partially missing serials] have animated the whole serial as BBC wants a "consistent product" for viewers. See The Faceless Ones, The Abominable Snowmen, The Celestial Toymaker, The Underwater Menace, The Evil of the Daleks, etc.
They posted a brief making-of for this video on YouTube today. It's mostly Davison and Fielding trash-talking each other.....at last, some new Dr Who.
Sorry, yes, I mean recent animations. Although, it's possible for them to revisit for DMP. For the sake of getting that one done, yes, I hope they go that route. But they seem hesitant.
They seem to have changed to 'preferring consistency' in recent years.
Reign and Moonbase were early animations [2013 and 2014 respectively], and at least half the episodes existed. Compare that to a later animation like Underwater Menace [late 2023/early 2024] where they elected to animate the whole thing, even though half of it existed. Shada [late 2017/early 2018] might be special because it's Tom freaking Baker on camera or something, i dunno. I think the impression there was to just finish it up.
Even as far back as 2020 with The Faceless Ones, they were animating the whole thing. The only more recent exception to 'animating the whole thing' is Web in 2021 where they only animated the 1 missing episode - I think that's because it would be a bit absurd to animate 6 episodes when 5 exist.
I liked when Peter said something like "I'll just call up Sarah [Sutton]" after talking about how Fielding injured herself. Those two were bickering like an old married couple.
Got my S21 set today and after flipping through all the stories it's definitely better than the last few sets but you're still never too far away from some detail turning into AI mush.
The film sequences in 'Planet of Fire' look wonderful though, and make me wish for that alternate reality where the entire series was shot that way.
The film sequences in 'Planet of Fire' look wonderful though, and make me wish for that alternate reality where the entire series was shot that way.