Re: The Lemonade Treatment

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Last Doctor wrote:

 
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We don’t have the pressures
that the production team were under - especially in those
early days.

 
The early episodes were of their time, so I'd leave them as they
were. If I could go back in time though I'd just tell the BBC
not to wipe or throw away the tins of videotape/film with Doctor
Who episodes on them!

Absolutely agreed on the preservation front.

The 252 episodes of the first four seasons were aired over just 291 weeks
from 1963-1969 - less than 7 weeks a year without a new episode needed. So
no wonder the padding was in there - you’d need 50% more stories otherwise,
and with even less time to refine and develop each story.

It was a punishing delivery pace - RTD is planning on giving us the
equivalent of 18 old size episodes a year, just 40% of what that team had
to produce.

But if we’re to make lemonade with our lemons - we need to consider all of
our ingredients as lemons.

--
“The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor