Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials [[SPOILERS!!]]

[Morrus]

I am so looking forward to this. Also has anyone watched the Dalek colourization and revised Adventures in Space and Time yet?

I watched The Daleks.

I kinda feel like the colourisation actually highlights the cheap sets/props. It's really clear where parts of the daleks are cardboard boxes. But it does make it more watchable (plus the pacing is presumably better, but I don't recall the original well enough to tell--they did cut about half an hour's worth though).

 

[overgeeked]

Very much looking forward to having new Doctor Who again.

 

[Morrus]

This is pretty awesome!

 

[Riley]

I watched The Daleks.

… the pacing is presumably better, but I don't recall the original well enough to tell--they did cut about half an hour's worth though).

They cut a lot more than that! The Daleks was a 7-parter, running 171 minutes. Losing six sets of credits only loses about 9 of those minutes.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

They cut a lot more than that! The Daleks was a 7-parter, running 171 minutes. Losing six sets of credits only loses about 9 of those minutes.

Yeah, they cut it down to only 75 minutes. I know all the old episodes could be trimmed some here and there, but cutting almost 100 minutes had to have hurt the story it was telling. A few minutes of credits and the couple of minutes at the start of each episode that starts with the end of the previous episode, still leaves way too much trimming.

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

The Daleks in Colour was great, but could have been about 15 minutes long. Removing some of the plot sections in what would have been parts 3 and 4 of 7 by doing flashbacks and montages hurt it thematically. It felt like a modern superhero movie in the way it was edited and in its storytelling. That is not something I would think I would ever say about any version of 1960s Doctor Who and not really a good thing, but overall, I found the rest of it very watchable.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The original BW serial is on iPlayer. The leisurely pacing actually allows for some character development (and I'm pretty sure Barbara would never wear such a bright pink sweater!)

 

[Morrus]

The original BW serial is on iPlayer. The leisurely pacing actually allows for some character development (and I'm pretty sure Barbara would never wear such a bright pink sweater!)

I listened to an interview with one of the team that did it and he said they used old photos to match the colours.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I listened to an interview with one of the team that did it and he said they used old photos to match the colours.

Sure, I don't doubt it was pink, just not quite such a bright pink. Old photos fade, and old photographic film did not reproduce colours accurately. She is of the same generation as my mum, I know what sort of pinks she would have worn.

 

[trappedslider]

well that was good, my favorite part has to be the sound effect of "boing" when the meep was launched out of the ship