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Second Doctor adventure 'The War Games' returns in full colour (in the UK) (www.doctorwho.tv)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience

Are you kidding me? Yes, at 10×25 minutes War games is long, even for the period, but it is also a well paced and cohesive story as it is.

You can probably shave 5 mins of each episode to lose the title sequence, credits, and overlapping cliffhangers — but that still leaves more than twice the 1½ hour playing time they edited it down to.

I understand the BBC could only reasonably colourise so many minutes, but why then pick a story that arguably in its most basic form is longer than they can pull off?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They did heavy edits of some classic stories prior the the last season hence released, yeah? Did you check any of those out? I did not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

The Tales of the TARDIS ones? Yeah, I watched them, like, once. I prefer the full length (or even extended) versions, and I don't think the brief, new segments added more than a bit of nostalgia.

I also think they were edited more lightly than the big colourised event versions of Daleks and War games? I guess the difference lies in the cost of colourisation being measurable in minutes of runtime.