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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
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Subject: Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:27:39 +0000
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Unlike with The Daleks in Colour which kept the basic story intact and 
everything made sense lots of stuff from The War Games was cut out by 
clueless modern editors with no attempt to abridge it and make it make 
sense. New characters were popping out of nowhere with no explanation 
who they were and what role they played in the plot.

It's better to read the novelization if you want to know what was 
actually going on.

Apart from that it was a good story except for the needless modern 
special effects which didn't fit in with the style of the original 
effects and the knee jerking insertion of Citadel on Gallifrey from the 
new series which looked totally out of place.

Unlike The Daleks in Colour the additional music mostly fitted in with 
the time.

The DeepFake regeneration from Troughton to Pertwee didn't fit in either 
and the stupidity of replacing the original faces the Doctor was offered 
by the Time Lords with those of Capaldi, Tennant, Smith, and Whittaker 
ruined it even further. Troughton saying "too young" in response to 
being shown Whitaker's face made no sense as his reaction should have 
been re-dubbed to "a woman, totally unheard of" in keeping with the times.

Whittaker can still be ignored as a PTSD triggered hallucination by 
Capaldi before the 12th Doctor dies after being shot by the Cybermen, 
since Doctor Who ended in 2017.

6/10 ruined by the modern special effects that didn't fit in with the 
original blurry footage, too much material being cut out causing the 
story keep suddenly jumping from place to place, the changes made to the 
faces the Doctor was shown by the Time Lords, the images of the Citadel 
from the Time War, and the fire coming from Troughton during the 
DeepFake regeneration as if he were regenerating naturally when this was 
supposed to be a forced change of appearance so should have been 
administered by the Time Lords under laboratory controlled conditions.

The story should have just been colourized using the original footage 
and effects and then it would have got an 8/10.


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The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it 
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