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Doctor Who : The War Games in Colour remastered , re - edited & colorized the classic - along with some interesting story and series retconning .
Doctor Who : The War Gamesis this year ’s remastered , re - emended , and colorized story designed to inaugurate Modern and young fan to the classic serial . It ’s not just a cleaning up of the television to make it pretty for advanced audiences but added some surprisal that may have retconned the narration to fetch it in crinkle with the current serial . Russell T. Daviesand producerPhil Collinsonknow what fans of the modern era ofDoctor Wholike and want to drum up their interest by giving it to them in unexpected agency . They ended up doing is retconning the story and the traditional knowledge .
" The War Games " is the longest serial publication in the show ’s story with an epical news report where The Second Doctor and his fellow traveller detect a renegade Time Lord snatch armies from Earth ’s history to defend warfare game in preparation for conquering the creation . It was one of the most significant stories in Doctor Who because it introduce the Time Lords and the Doctor ’s home world for the first time , though it was n’t yet named " Gallifrey . " It was the last story of the 1960s and the last one shot in ignominious and white . The colors work better than the overly bright hue of " The Daleks in Colour " and make it feel like a story from the 1970s .
The original ten - part serial version of " The War Games " run for over four hour in total and had long patches in between The Doctor and the other characters just run from one location to another . The 90 - minute cutting make the story feel breathless as it rush through the plot . Some of the major scenes and setpieces in the middle were cut to explain how The Doctor meets all the factions and how they come to acknowledge each other when he make the resistance . Their first meetings are now implied . The short gash gets free of some of the part second between The Doctor and his companions , but any personnel casualty is made up by the net twenty hour , which sport the Time Lords whisking them to Gallifrey ( which updated shots of the city ) . There , the Doctor ’s trial becomes a more urgent focusing as the Time Lords agree not to execute him but to return Jamie and Zoey to their own times before forcing the Doctor to exile on Earth after forcing him to regenerate .
Retcons for Modern Fans
The sudden outburst of The Master ’s motif byMurray Goldwhen the Second Doctor control the War Chief for the first time uses music to retcon the character into being an early incarnation of The Master . When the Time Lords accomplish the War Chief at the end , the newfangled version inserts the re-formation sound effect to entail he was revitalize and possibly into the Master , as played byRoger Delgadoin the Third Doctor era . That was cagey using musing to retcon a story and a eccentric without altering the story at all . Then , of course , there ’s the novel positive feedback aspect where Doctor is see regenerating into the Third Doctor , which was make by a fan radical using CGI and rotoscoped footage ofJon Pertweefrom later stories .
Doctor Who: Always About Change
Any change inDoctor Whois controversial because hardcore fan just ca n’t get through a week without declaring something aboutDoctor Whocontroversial these daylight . The original version has n’t been wipe off but remain inviolate onstreamingand forcible media . Russell T. Davies certainly know this and does n’t care , or rather , handle enough to fan it because nothing keepsDoctor Whoin people ’s mind more than paranoid disceptation . The show continues to get attention and drama queen fans get to have more dramatic play ! Everybody gain ground !
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