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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Blueshirt's Questions from the filter post.
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:21:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On 11/03/2025 14:11, Blueshirt wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <xn0p352lg15m9q8005@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>> > The Doctor wrote:
>> >> In article <xn0p3510h13gzr7001@post.eweka.nl>,
>> >> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> > What hasn't been returned/found will probably never be
>> >> > returned at this stage. Maybe one or two episodes might
>> >> > surface (or re-surface even) but it's highly unlikely that
>> >> > all of the 97 Doctor Who episodes that are currently
>> >> > 'missing' will be returned to the BBC.
>> >> 
>> >> I am ever the optimist!
>> > 
>> > Well, we are all optimistic to some degree Dave, but with 97
>> > episodes of Doctor Who missing for over fifty years it's
>> > logical to assume that most of them will never turn up...
>> > 
>> > Maybe in the future AI can reconstruct them?
>> 
>> We shall see.
>
>Or maybe we won't, if no more episodes are ever recovered.
>
>And when AI gets to the stage that it can reconstruct
>missing Doctor Who episodes faithfully we probably won't be
>around to see that either.

Actually some pretty good deepfake work is available already. If someone was
 to layer that over the Ian Levine AI reconstructions - which try to be very
 faithful to the original scenes in terms of action and positioning , but
 suffer from varying levels of poor facial animation and Mr Benn style
 bodily movements, it could be sooner than you think. (Levine's had over 90
 of the missing episodes done now, to varying levels of failure - can see it
 being "complete" by summer if his begging bowl gets filled).

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 sometimes.