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Post by Dylan Heath on Jul 6, 2017 22:55:23 GMT
Hmm, is wheel in space the current rumour doing the rounds then? I think there was one about that years ago that didn't come to anything; I can't remember specifics at the mo. Of course any recovered Troughton would be good Do you know if this recon is animated or using the Cura telesnaps or something completely different? I tend to prefer the telesnap and soundtrack variety myself, but that's just me No idea, it's too vague to really tell in the article. I wouldn't get your hopes up for a full animation yet.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jul 6, 2017 20:03:16 GMT
So the American company BritBox (who give access to British programmes such as Doctor Who) are showing off at a convention on the 20th of July a Wheel In Space reconstruction which they are bringing to their platform. Just wondered what your thoughts on this are and to discuss the possibility of getting official reconstructions from the BBC as it's not made clear in the article where this made and who sanctioned it. I assume we'll get more details on the 20th. I know some people are going to point to this as yet another sign of the return of Wheel In Space but I'm not really convinced by that at least without anything concrete, it was more likely chosen as it's the only missing Cyberman story that hasn't been animated but we don't know. Thoughts then? Here's the article I read for context although it gives little detail: nerdist.com/classic-doctor-who-sdcc-panel-will-premiere-reconstructed-lost-episode/
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jul 3, 2017 15:52:22 GMT
I'd loan it to the BBC or the restoration team to digitise for no cost as every fan deserves to see it however I would like the print back once they had finsihed so I could keep it in my own collection ergo satisfying everyone.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jun 25, 2017 19:57:54 GMT
Still power and evil can't shake a stick at the new stuff Well, in a sense they're not comparable. At the time I daresay audiences were a lot more forgiving of their production shortcomings, plot holes, and so forth. In my opinion Power Of The Daleks is better than any of the new who Dalek stories (most of which, especially the recent ones are pretty crap). Power is just much cleverly written than most of the new stuff, it knows how to actually make the Daleks scary and a credible threat. The only episodes close are the great Dalek stories in new series 1, besides them its no contest.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jun 25, 2017 19:55:40 GMT
Absolutely bloody right Dylan...SO much more out there to enjoy rather than sitting around and getting frustrated about the lack of any announcements from Philip Morris. BBC audio, Big Finish, DWM and lots,lots more are generating exciting literature and drama which leaves the MEs in the shade.The MEs are an important aspect of Dr Who's history but don't make it the end-all and be-all.We've had almost 40 years to get used to the fact and in that time Dr Who has eclipsed it's B/W history so anything turning up from that era is a bonus sure,but as a fan you wouldn't want to watch and listen to it all the time.In fact,I listen and read more about Dr Who than actually watch it! When you think about it, so much good has come from the missing episodes. What you have is a few hours of television that aired over 50 years ago and that haven't been seen by any human being since then that have captured the imaginations of thousands, and continue to capture imaginations to this day. They have brought people together from all walks of life: people who would never have met each other were it not for the missing episodes, and those episodes have inspired hundreds of animations and reconstructions. People have learned new and valuable skills all for the sake of these few episodes, and then those people have made wonderful and impressive things with those skills all for the love of this 1960s science fiction show. The missing episodes have generated a culture of their own and that culture has inspired generations of people. I can say that the missing episodes were single-handedly responsible for the new book series I'm writing that deals with themes like hope, being happy with what you have, and letting go. Who knows what could surface next. Maybe it will be an episode, or maybe not, but while Doctor Who has a fan base, there will be a fan base for these 60s episodes and while there's a fan base for the 60s episodes there will always be people finding new and exciting ways to bring the missing episodes back to life and honoring their memories. It's important to remember the past, but it's also important to move on and use those memories and that conviction to make something new that will inspire future people to creating their own works and those works will, in turn, inspire even more people, and at the root of it all there will lie the missing episodes and the culture they formed. Through the legacy that we and others leave, the missing episodes will become more alive and more influential than they ever were when they existed. We may have lost cinematic treasures, but we will have gained so much more through that than we could ever have done otherwise. That is very true also, I can't think of anyway to rebuttal that, well done. I personally will probably sit in the sidelines until we get a Phil Morris update however (unless we get another random orphan from a collector, probably an Australian one if so because looking at the recovered orphans, it's pretty clear an employee at the ABC leaked and sold a few instead of destroying all of them).
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jun 25, 2017 19:52:21 GMT
Phillip Morris probably is following up leads we don't know about but obviously what he did won't be made public for a while and if anything is found well we'll need to wait for that too, it's best just to sit back and forget about it for the time being. Until people in the know actually give us something tangible to speculate about there's no point. Absolutely bloody right Dylan...SO much more out there to enjoy rather than sitting around and getting frustrated about the lack of any announcements from Philip Morris. BBC audio, Big Finish, DWM and lots,lots more are generating exciting literature and drama which leaves the MEs in the shade.The MEs are an important aspect of Dr Who's history but don't make it the end-all and be-all.We've had almost 40 years to get used to the fact and in that time Dr Who has eclipsed it's B/W history so anything turning up from that era is a bonus sure,but as a fan you wouldn't want to watch and listen to it all the time.In fact,I listen and read more about Dr Who than actually watch it! These days I probably listen and read more too (at least read in terms of read about it online, I need to get into the books more). Big Finish is a blessing, especially to 60s fans like me as the First Doctor audios are more consistently excellent than any other Big Finish Doctor at least from what I have heard. Naturally I'll come out of the woodwork once there's some tangible evidence of missing episodes returning but as we both said, it's not worth spending all your time on, I only visit this forum a couple oftimes a week and only if there is an interesting new thread do I stay longer than a few seconds.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Jun 24, 2017 14:06:16 GMT
The trouble, of course, is that there has been absolutely no new leads from any source, anywhere, for months. Hence the procession of threads that have virtually nothing to do with actually attempting to locate missing episodes. If there's nothing worth posting, there's nothing worth posting. Or at least no new leads that have been made known to the public. Phillip Morris probably is following up leads we don't know about but obviously what he did won't be made public for a while and if anything is found well we'll need to wait for that too, it's best just to sit back and forget about it for the time being. Until people in the know actually give us something tangible to speculate about there's no point.
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Post by Dylan Heath on May 30, 2017 14:53:16 GMT
I didn't see him fall. When broadcast the end of part 4 was very quick and at the time a bit baffling. I imagine it was baffling on purpose to get people to come back next week to find out what had happened to the Doctor.
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Post by Dylan Heath on May 24, 2017 16:48:40 GMT
Why? You can't just pull missing episodes out of thin air, you have to actually spend lots of hard work and time finding them and even then you probably won't be successful these days even with the right contacts. A boots-on-the-ground, no-stone-left-unturned global search is not hard work enough? A decade is not time enough? (Potentially, I mean. If they don't exist anymore whatsoever because they were utterly destroyed, then so amount of searching can find them anymore as they no longer exist to be found.) Phil Morris and others have said that the full story will be told when the job is done. The full story, I assume, would include a description of what was and was not found. Basically, I trust that we will eventually hear the results of the search when the job is done. The question is therefore just whether the job is done or not (and whether this might be the most opportune time to share the results). I'm guessing that it will be, but that's only a guess obviously. I just don't think we should think that we're getting any information here unless there's evidence to suggest we are. In my opinion I thought it was quite a preposterous assumption with nothing to go on considering how rare recoveries are these days. Naturally I hope there is something but until I'm shown it I won't believe it.
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Post by Dylan Heath on May 23, 2017 20:04:44 GMT
I think there will be some sort of reveal of recovered episodes. Why? You can't just pull missing episodes out of thin air, you have to actually spend lots of hard work and time finding them and even then you probably won't be successful these days even with the right contacts.
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Post by Dylan Heath on May 23, 2017 15:39:42 GMT
It's just a missing episode event, it doesn't mean we're getting anything. Just maybe we'll get an update on Phil Morris' situation but I wouldn't hold your breath. Assume nothing until you actually have tangible evidence presented to you.
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Post by Dylan Heath on May 8, 2017 19:02:51 GMT
They're just referencing the stories to generate hype for the event, I'd be extremely surprised if anything was actually announced (but also very happy, but I won't get my hopes up on such slender evidence).
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 27, 2017 16:47:38 GMT
Well obviously nothing about Web 3 is yet confirmed but from recent interviews with Phil Morris he seems to allude to knowing where it might be and is trying to come to negotiate his return but he hasn't said anything outright frustratingly so don't get excited until we have official confirmation.
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 27, 2017 16:45:42 GMT
Bloody great stuff! A friend of mine Buzzcraft Productions has done some work very similar to yours, could it be honed I'm sure some brilliant reconstructions could be made! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbNzWi8xV_s
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Post by Dylan Heath on Apr 16, 2017 9:50:54 GMT
Power Of The Daleks is my third favourite Doctor Who story of all time so I can't choose anything other than that, it manages to get all the elements of a good Doctor Who story in the right place while being a brilliant new Doctor story as well as in my opinion the best portrayal of the Daleks we have ever scene. I couldn't have put it better myself about Power! 100% agree with you! Also on another note, great video about your feelings towards Series 10, I'm expecting the worst, but you never know! Well it started off mediocre which is already an improvement over the past few seasons! Oh and thank you!
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