Spoilers Power of the Daleks
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Then too--I was half expecting ARCHER to show up in a scene
Maybe some internet gazillionair will pay old Disney animators to do Big Finish episodes.
Archer slam aside, I actually think the awkwardness of the animation fitted the awkwardness of the Doctor's first regeneration.
The costumes of the surface workers looks a bit more threatening--with us less likely to know just "who was who" in terms of the shooter. A moving still life can cause unease--and I think I picked up on that.
Try this. Read Blish's More Light, (or one of the better HPL type stories) then watch this again--and you can see what I mean.
If someone could do Blish's take on THE KING IN YELLOW ("More Light") this might actually be the way to do it.
In Day of the Daleks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Daleks
--we saw effects updated. But I might have kept the tinny Dalek voice--in that--in that timeline--The Dalek's had free reign.
If I were Q, and could redeux this series, I'd have the different Dalek voices actors out or order--with each voice actor making the Dalek's sound more and more insane.
Really, Hartnell was what we should have seen in Time of the Doctor, with each egneration being older--and Matt Smith where Capaldi is now--with a new set.
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I don't follow?
Eh, I love the variety of what we ended up with. The idea that Smith is older than Baker and Hartnell combined is both hilarious and brilliant. That's Doctor Who to me!
That being said, it was a really lovely touch that Eleven's old-age makeup in Time of the Doctor was purposely made to resemble the First Doctor, that similarity in their old age was really a beautiful 50th anniversary tribute (more so to the Hartnell himself than anything in Day of the Doctor was, anyway) in and of itself.
I found the style of the animation worked a lot better for me in the color version. If only I didn't have to deal with BBCA's web video player.
Bah, the BBCA website only has the color version online right now.
There were continuity errors going on all over the place. Characters going from sitting to standing (and back) shot to shot, characters teleporting across the room, Ben & Polly wearing the wrong clothes at one point (in station medical garb before they were told a couple shots later to 'get into some proper clothes' while back in their original outfits), guards appearing out of nowhere... don't get me wrong, I'm glad they went to the effort, but just how rushed was this??
I agree, the animation is atrocious. It's not going to stop me from watching the rest (and I've already pre-ordered the DVD), but this looks like a fan-made effort at best, not a professional job. The continuity error with Ben and Polly's clothes is even more glaring in color.
Is the continuity error in relation to The Tenth Planet, or in contradiction within the story itself?
Within the story itself. Ben and Polly go from wearing their normal clothes, then inexplicably they are briefly wearing bright orange hospital clothes, and then are back in their normal clothes, before being told that they need to change into the clothes that we just saw them wearing.
ETA-- There is one point, when the Doctor is examining the capsule, where he simply disappears. I wonder if these issues are from rushing to meet the air-date, or budgetary.
ETA Again-- The Doctor is briefly seen wearing the "Vulcan examiner" badge before leaving the TARDIS.
ETA-- There is one point, when the Doctor is examining the capsule, where he simply disappears. I wonder if these issues are from rushing to meet the air-date, or budgetary.
ETA Again-- The Doctor is briefly seen wearing the "Vulcan examiner" badge before leaving the TARDIS.
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Hm, I wonder if they can fix those issues on the way.
Also, I always assumed this was a fan-made effort, given how BBC seems to be so snotty about OldWho releases these days. It must've come across as pretty good effort for a fan-made one and BBC thought they could take advantage of it.
Still, more preferable than telesnaps, be it as it may. I want to concern myself with the story, and less with the lack of movement on the said serial.
Also, I always assumed this was a fan-made effort, given how BBC seems to be so snotty about OldWho releases these days. It must've come across as pretty good effort for a fan-made one and BBC thought they could take advantage of it.
Still, more preferable than telesnaps, be it as it may. I want to concern myself with the story, and less with the lack of movement on the said serial.
Color me wrong, then. Thats unfortunate.
Still, glad to have these rather than telesnaps. The only halfway decent telesnap, outside of Loose Cannon's (whose work won't ever be endorsed by the BBC, thus a big flipping bird to them), is this one for the first episode of The Underwater Menace.
Still, glad to have these rather than telesnaps. The only halfway decent telesnap, outside of Loose Cannon's (whose work won't ever be endorsed by the BBC, thus a big flipping bird to them), is this one for the first episode of The Underwater Menace.
Quite the contrary, I find it easier to watch classic era stories an episode a day. Classic Who really isn't meant to be binge-watched.
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