Re: "New" Doctor Who on December 23!

On 05/12/2024 11:45, Blueshirt wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
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In article <viq202$101k3$1@dont-email.me>,
The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

Hope and trepidation for "The War Games in Colour".
 Hope - that the colourisation is sympathetic and there
aren't too many bright blue floors.
 Hope - that the story can fit satisfyingly into 90 minutes
(I think 120 might do it, 150 (as two 75s) would be better.
230 minutes down to 90 is drastic cutting -  even the worst
serials didn't have THAT much padding.
 Hope - that any found footage (as advertised) is meaningful.
A few seconds of Pat clowning here and there would be
pointless.
 Trepidation - that the "new effects" and any visual changes
(to the offered faces, for example) might spoil the charm of
the story or seem out of place.
 Trepidation - about the "regeneration scene" from Pat to
Jon. Still, at least that will shut down the "Fugitive
Doctor wasn't before Hartnell" crowd, at least the sane ones.
 I wasn't keen on the trailer for "Joy to the World", though.
I hope it's better than it looks like it might be.

 250 minutes the original.

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Yes Dave, we all know that.
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This is a new edited version of "The War Games", in colour...to
sit alongside the original. Not replace it!

I wrote 230 - Dave thinks he was correcting me and it should be 10x25 (250).
 But I was taking into account the fact that 25 minute run times always come
 up a little short as the slot they fit in has to include announcements,
 trailers and might have censor cuts - altogether The War Games was just
 over 241 minutes of runtime (the Wikipedia entry for the War Games details
 that episode by episode). In addition, there are 9 sets of opening titles, 9 sets of closing titles,
 and 9 sections of cliffhanger reprise that can be cut without losing one
 second of story footage. I guesstimated the full impact of those at 10
 minutes, which might be excessive but not by much. --
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.