Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

I've been rewatching the original first and second Doctor Who episodes and it's just plain sad how much has been lost forever. you completely miss when new companions are added, in some cases. A few episodes were rebuilt as animated when the audio was found, but it's just not the same. Episodes that I remember seeing in the old American PBS days, in the '70s, will likely never be seen again.

 

[payn]

I've been rewatching the original first and second Doctor Who episodes and it's just plain sad how much has been lost forever. you completely miss when new companions are added, in some cases. A few episodes were rebuilt as animated when the audio was found, but it's just not the same. Episodes that I remember seeing in the old American PBS days, in the '70s, will likely never be seen again.

Were they lost to deterioration or were the masters taped over?

 

[Thomas Shey]

Were they lost to deterioration or were the masters taped over?

Mostly the latter. The Beeb as super-casual about doing that.

 

[Ryujin]

Mostly the latter. The Beeb as super-casual about doing that.

"No one will ever want to watch a kids' show again. Let's save a few quid.

 

[Ryujin]

Were they lost to deterioration or were the masters taped over?

Taped over, for the most part. Some of the old episodes were recovered from TV networks in Africa, if I remember correctly. They were stuck in the archives and forgotten for 50 years.

 

[payn]

"No one will ever want to watch a kids' show again. Let's save a few quid.

That and more likely it was expensive AF to keep those tapes back then and the future potential was the edging factor.

 

[overgeeked]

But over time I found myself looking at all of this user's comments with... I don't know.. What's the opposite of rose-tinted glasses? I just assumed everything they said was in bad faith moving forward. And that's not really fair.

Sounds fair to me. People carry chips on their shoulder. Being able to look at a note instead of having to remember why someone posts a particular way is helpful. Especially in larger spaces. If they’re bad enough to note but not bad enough to ignore.

 

[Umbran]

Mostly the latter. The Beeb as super-casual about doing that.

Early on, there was not even the inkling that history would care. Doctor Who is hardly the only show to be lost to history.

 

[trappedslider]

Depending on the topic I just figure it's more of the same drum beat that the poster always beats instead of something new. for example "User bob always post negative about a given topic" therefore I go in knowing what to expect.

 

[prabe]

I've never seen anyone say that in good faith before, and I do not believe this is the first.