#CRRRRS 562 #DoctorWho: #TheWarGamesinColour
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Right … this is for the #drwho fans in the #Fediverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R5rQ1MOF7U
That … ?
Is my video review of #TheWarGamesInColour
Feel free to leave me a comment!
Or just completely disagree with me!
Anyway, back to last night's #DoctorWho #TheWarGamesInColour... the best bit was the dateline flicking between 1970 and 1980 after the TARDIS landed in Oxley Woods.
Sooo... If the 12th Doctor got his face from Caecilius, how did the Time Lords give the 2nd Doctor that same face as an option for the 3rd Doctor?
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This was incredible #TheWarGamesInColour
They’ve managed to get HD film transfers for a lot of the outdoor footage, so this the earliest HD footage we’ve had so far and the first time we’ve had a black-and-white episode in HD (and colourised)
The colourisation is quite good and combines with the 576i SD monochrome footage quite well. The World War I scenes with the military office staff felt almost like the following year’s colour season 7 early episode scenes in Spearhead from Space, and a lot of the studio scenes were reminiscent of other studio stories from that season. The glowing colours on props and electronics worked surprisingly well.
(I think the biggest clues that the cameras were “older” were the lack of variable zoom — they just moved the dollies closer to zoom in — and some vignetting; occasionally as objects fade in and out, the colourisation loses saturation prematurely).
This wasn’t at all the case when watching the original version, all 10 episodes. You wouldn’t know it came a year before the “modern” seventies colour episodes. What helped sell this, the best upgrade, is the improved editing — very wide latitude with cutting different scenes together to change the pace in a way that was never considered until editing became easier, e.g. watching people previously filmed in one location while listening to people talk in another.
But mostly I loved the new music mix, because it added on top of the existing “effects” style music where it existed (in a bit of a lonely way before), and really amped up the drama.
My hot take on last night's #DoctorWho #TheWarGamesInColour...
The editing made the first part feel like a 70 minute "previously on". There was no let up until the last 20 minutes where it slowed down we got a lot of the final episode (and the end of the previous one). Those are the best bits of the story anyway.
CGI regeneration scene very uncanny valley.
The colorization fell apart now and again. Did they use AI tools for some of that?
7/10. Exhausting at times.
Hip-hip-hurrah for Richard Tipple!
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I want a pair of those specs for doing evil things.
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Now, that’s how to do a colourised story!
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Pain. Pain. Pain. In colour. #DoctorWho #TheWarGamesInColour
LOL at alternative next Doctor list.
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The green wardrobe was always my second-favourite #Tardis design.
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I see we’ve reached the “loud noises to accompany swinging edits as they run around” stage of #TheWarGamesInColour #DoctorWho
A massive 1960s BBC budget on display in #TheWarGamesInColour- at least three bob and a pickled egg
@Cuddy2977
I suspect that Pat's been washing his shirt in that new fangled washing powder that makes things whiter than white and bluer that blue.
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It’s official: #Zoe has biffed an official over the head with a #vase … !
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I'd never noticed before that the flowers were poppies - LOL
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Love the red satin car seats.
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