Hmmm...

[jjpor]

Most intriguing.

I suspect this may relate to the story that I refrained from posting about here last week because nobody online who might be in the know seemed to believe it was true. If that does turn out to be the case, it's obviously nowhere near as exciting as the unearthing of new "lost" episodes or whatever, but it's enough to be going

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[lost_spook]

/o\

I hate the animated episodes! I can barely stand one at a time, let alone six episodes of one of my favourite DW adventures. /irrational misery.

Which is to say that for some reason I get the same unbearable dissonance I get with TV or film biopics where I know the subject from their own TV/film work or whatever, or anything where the thing registers as not the real thing and something in me starts panicking. But Power is one of my favourite stories and hopefully this will make it more widely available to people who don't do audios - and maybe more people will learn to love Ben, Polly, Two and Lesterson and Janley. I don't find it easy to listen to the lost eps on soundtrack only, because they weren't meant that way, and I was still utterly blown away by this one & Robert James in particular gives an amazing performance as Lesterson despite lack of surviving visuals

[newmoonstar]

I know how you feel! I think I'm probably in the minority in preferring to see the telesnaps rather than animation for missing eps, but to me there's something more exciting about seeing some visuals from the actual production.

Still, it's nice to have animation when there's no telesnaps to be had, and some of the animation can be charming- I liked the puppet-like quality of the animated versions of the characters in 'The Ice Warriors' for instance- I think the Second Doctor era lends itself to cartoon-ification pretty well, actually.

But I totally get the 'wrongness' feeling you describe- I feel that same way about voices. When they replace the voice actor of a character I love, I always notice and I can't stand it. It happened in one of my favorite childhood cartoons and I'm still not over it! I'm probably the only person who's absolutely gutted that Big Finish recast Barbara. Jemma Powell does look like Jackie Hill, but that doesn't help on audio! Her voice is so different that I know it'll bother me too much, which means I won'

[lost_spook]

Yes, I am torn because my personal feeling is that I would totally buy audio-visual reconstructions from the BBC, but I know that this way will appeal to far more people - and Power is such a great serial that that is exciting

[jjpor]

I really think it depends on what the animation is like, as to whether this is something exciting or just a slightly less historically interesting substitute for a recon/telesnaps. I notice that the trailer is a bit light on actual animation, apart from the Daleks who don't actually have to look very smooth or lifelike in their movements etc due to being, well, Daleks. That makes me think it might be something quite basic along the lines of the previous odd episodes animated for DVD releases. Which I liked fine on those DVDs, tbh, but I don't know how well that would hold up as a viewing experience over the course of six full-length episodes. I've often thought that making full animated versions of completely "lost" stories might be a good idea, and especially in terms of "selling" them to NuWho fans or even "casuals" ;D but I guess I'm waiting to see how it's executed before deciding whether it was a success or not. Which takes nothing away from the fact that it must have taken great effort, artistry and expense to do; not

[lost_spook]

Yes, I think it is exciting - I just wish I didn't have such a personal aversion to the animations! It's a bit of a nuisance. :-)