Sujet : Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
De : agamemnon (at) *nospam* hello.to.NO_SPAM (The True Doctor)
Groupes : rec.arts.drwhoDate : 24. Dec 2024, 20:27:39
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Unlike with The Daleks in Colour which kept the basic story intact and everything made sense lots of stuff from The War Games was cut out by clueless modern editors with no attempt to abridge it and make it make sense. New characters were popping out of nowhere with no explanation who they were and what role they played in the plot.
It's better to read the novelization if you want to know what was actually going on.
Apart from that it was a good story except for the needless modern special effects which didn't fit in with the style of the original effects and the knee jerking insertion of Citadel on Gallifrey from the new series which looked totally out of place.
Unlike The Daleks in Colour the additional music mostly fitted in with the time.
The DeepFake regeneration from Troughton to Pertwee didn't fit in either and the stupidity of replacing the original faces the Doctor was offered by the Time Lords with those of Capaldi, Tennant, Smith, and Whittaker ruined it even further. Troughton saying "too young" in response to being shown Whitaker's face made no sense as his reaction should have been re-dubbed to "a woman, totally unheard of" in keeping with the times.
Whittaker can still be ignored as a PTSD triggered hallucination by Capaldi before the 12th Doctor dies after being shot by the Cybermen, since Doctor Who ended in 2017.
6/10 ruined by the modern special effects that didn't fit in with the original blurry footage, too much material being cut out causing the story keep suddenly jumping from place to place, the changes made to the faces the Doctor was shown by the Time Lords, the images of the Citadel from the Time War, and the fire coming from Troughton during the DeepFake regeneration as if he were regenerating naturally when this was supposed to be a forced change of appearance so should have been administered by the Time Lords under laboratory controlled conditions.
The story should have just been colourized using the original footage and effects and then it would have got an 8/10.
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