why the Second Doctor is the best

[kindkit]

I just started watching the reconstruction of "Fury From the Deep." Two minutes into the first episode, and the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria are having a sea-foam fight. *hearts them*

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[biichan]

Frazer and Deborah told the most AWESOME story about that at Gallifrey. I should check if there's a youtube vid of that.

[kindkit]

Yeah, I'd love a link is there is one.

[van]

Ah, I do so love them, yes. Pat and Frazer were so mean to Debbie, but mean with love. And it really shows in their characters.

[kindkit]

The warmth is so obvious onscreen, it makes them a pleasure to watch. Even when it's just still photos and a soundtrack.

[vilakins]

Is that one of the lost stories? How do they reconstruct them? Are they just audio?

[kindkit]

Reconstructions combine the audio (home-recorded by fans back in the day) with still photographs from the set, of which there are quite a few. Some, such as the one for "Fury," also have captions describing any action we can't see and include any surviving fragments of film (often, it's short clips that were removed--and retained, for some reason--by Australian censors before broadcast there because they were considered too violent). There are also some Second Doctor reconstructions that have audio narration by Frazer Hines, who played Jamie. How they managed that I don't know, because they're very unofficial, but I guess the BBC's policy is to be tolerant of the reconstructions so long as no one tries to profit from them.

The results aren't bad, usually. Some people prefer just to listen to the audio, but I don't get that, myself. It's hard to follow what's happening without stills and captions, and I like seeing the stills.

[vilakins]

Thanks for that. I'd prefer to see the stills and captions too. I imagine the BBC don't object since they destroyed the footage anyway; otherwise they'd be down on everyone like the Assyrian.

[van]

I definitely prefer the audio timed to telesnaps myself. Fury also has, as I recall, a scene where Jamie stands on the Doctor's shoulders and the surviving telesnape is the Doctor looking directly up his kilt. Ahahha I am twelve.