Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Last Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: The Lemonade Treatment Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:30:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:30:56 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0914a1942e07c1eca5b867d3f86855b"; logging-data="195207"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hLJA2ZhQ7P7cJqV2CESpE" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ayHxjUI/lmu2nV5LLyOfARXeiVc= sha1:KOzhLuFhuaARmM2bPAUx0LYKn5g= Bytes: 2169 Blueshirt 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