That may be, but it doesn't make me like it any more. That's not how people watch TV these days.
Mr Awe
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That may be, but it doesn't make me like it any more. That's not how people watch TV these days.
Mr Awe
Yeah, but... One would think that the target audience for the reconstruction of a long-lost, 50-year-old, black-and-white TV serial would consist largely of people seeking to indulge in nostalgia. This is an anniversary event. It's trying to reconstruct what the original viewing experience would've been like, more or less.
Besides, it's not like they have a ton of other new Doctor Who programming to show. So they want to pace it out so it isn't just one and done.
^^ I don't disagree with you.. I'm old school when it come to Who viewing.. I remember our PBS showing one, half-hour episode either nightly or weekly (I frankly can't remember which) and while I was ok with it, I also agree that times have changed. My opinion is that a majority of us want things NOW - hence Netflix/Hulu/Amazon binging.. Nowadays, I like my WHO in the hour long format. Or two, if it's a two parter... Half hour sitcoms with no appreciable story arc are fine, but our habits, no matter how old we are, have changed. I would love to see this in one-hour blocks, personally. But I'm also of a mind to just wait for the DVD so I can watch in one sitting. Am I impatient? Maybe so...
My PBS station showed the "movie"-style versions, one complete serial every Saturday night at 10 (though "The War Games" was split over 2 weekends). I had to stay up soooo late for the really long ones. I guess I didn't trust the VCR to work reliably.
Yeah, those are things that exist, but we still watch plenty of network shows that come out only once per week. Like, for instance, new Doctor Who.
And even some streaming services release their original shows one episode per week, as is the plan with Star Trek Discovery.
That's what I'm saying... I like the new Who format.. Each story is wrapped up in a one or two hour time frame, not parsed out over half hour segments for several weeks. I watch the classic stories now and it just seems like a lot of that time was filled with, well, filler...
Which is the advantage of showing just one episode of "Power" per week, the format for which it was written. The padding and repetition aren't so evident that way.
Perhaps, but I *think* even us long time Who viewers have moved away from the 25 minutes per week format. It's very aggravating! I'm sure I will enjoy it anyway. I just wish they would've consulted with me about the best way to present this classic!
Mr Awe
Well, I already binge-watched the Loose Cannon reconstruction of "Power" earlier this year. I don't mind getting a chance to experience it at the original pace.
I saw and enjoyed the film version last night. The pace was a slow build up. Closer to films and tv episodes of that era. I did not feel much redundancy.
Could always wait until they all air and then binge, I guarantee BBCA will show them all either as the last episode airs or just after.
The first episode was fun, what I got to see of it. I don't have cable, but managed to commandeer a TV at my local pub. Thankfully, the bartender is a fellow nerd. Not a Whovian, but enough of a nerd to appreciate what was airing.
Wow... The animation on this is just awful. Almost as bad as "The Ice Warriors." The artwork is okay in repose, but the movements are crude and clumsy. Also, I don't care for the choice to do it in widescreen, which kind of defeats the purpose of approximating the lost original work.
Did they move the regeneration to before the title sequence, or was it like that originally?
Did they move the regeneration to before the title sequence, or was it like that originally?
I think in the original there was no reprise of the changeover, just the opening credits and then a still-glowing Troughton on the ground. They slightly rewrote history there to include the relevant clip from 'last episode.'
^Ah, yes, I think you're right. My Power of the Daleks "photonovel" begins with a telesnap of Troughton lying on the TARDIS floor.
I wonder, did they just recycle the regeneration sequence from the animated Tenth Planet reconstruction, or did they do a second version?
I wonder, did they just recycle the regeneration sequence from the animated Tenth Planet reconstruction, or did they do a second version?
It's a new version.
It keeps in-line with the Pertwee-Baker and Baker-Davison post-regeneration stories, where they show a reprise of the regeneration before the story gets going (though it was after the credits in Robot, just pre-title as in Castrovalva). And even Time and the Rani kinda does, in a retroactive sort-of way.
I actually wish Twin Dilemma had included the regeneration reprise. Obviously they didn't because the episode aired literally just a week after the fourth episode of Caves of Androzani, but still...
I actually wish Twin Dilemma had included the regeneration reprise. Obviously they didn't because the episode aired literally just a week after the fourth episode of Caves of Androzani, but still...
That's exactly what I thought. I think I would have rather seen stills and listened to the audio than watch this horrid, stick figure animation. The facial reactions ( if you can call them that) all seem to be a few seconds behind the action and the character movement is like watching paper dolls on Popsicle sticks.
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