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Given that large chunks of the story were never even recorded at all in 1978 (or whenever it was), how the hell would a Cosgrove Hall thing be able to happen? Remember, The Invasion 's animated episodes were matched with the originial TV soundtrack.
For certain portions of Shada there is no soundtrack, owing to the fact that nothing at all (neither sound nor pictures) was ever made. So, exactly what soundtrack would you propose that animated episodes are put to? Tom's narration?!
A "Cosgrove Hall thing" DID happen. Baker refused to do it (apparently him and Lalla Ward, his ex-wife, are on pretty bad terms), so they got Paul McGann in as the Eighth Doctor and did a slightly contrived prologue to explain why he'd be there instead of the Fourth. It's still on the BBC website, in fact: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/
A "slightly extended" audio-only version was also released on CD by Big Finish, and later transmitted a couple of times on BBC [Radio] 7.
Oh, yes, I knew that the 8th Dr animated version existed
But I got the impression that earlier post-ers were calling for a DVD release of the original 4th Dr version, with animation just for the missing bits. It was that that wouldn't make sense.
I've never seen 8th Dr Shada, but I've always heard that the "quality" of the animation (e.g. the frame-rate, or something like that?) for the 8th Dr Shada was "only good enough for online", which - so I've been lead to believe - is therefore rather poor quality for watching on DVD (i.e. on a proper TV screen)? If so, then a DVD release of 8th Dr Shada may not be such a brilliant idea?
Look yourself - the link's there above, and it's free to view
It's not "frame rate" so much as the amount of animation is limited mostly to a number of still pictures being manoeuvred on-screen, in a Flash version of something like Mr Benn .
Narratively, it'd be damn near impossible never mind the Shada×3 thing. Given the emphasis they've placed on "Last of the Time Lords", could they really bring Chronotis and another - albeit even more primitive - Tardis in unless they're prepared to restore the Time Lords in general first?
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Well given that it was released on video, I'd say it was a possibility.
They'd have to do something else with the missing bits though, maybe get Cosgrove Hall in again?
They'd have to do something else with the missing bits though, maybe get Cosgrove Hall in again?
Given that large chunks of the story were never even recorded at all in 1978 (or whenever it was), how the hell would a Cosgrove Hall thing be able to happen? Remember, The Invasion 's animated episodes were matched with the originial TV soundtrack.
For certain portions of Shada there is no soundtrack, owing to the fact that nothing at all (neither sound nor pictures) was ever made. So, exactly what soundtrack would you propose that animated episodes are put to? Tom's narration?!
A "Cosgrove Hall thing" DID happen. Baker refused to do it (apparently him and Lalla Ward, his ex-wife, are on pretty bad terms), so they got Paul McGann in as the Eighth Doctor and did a slightly contrived prologue to explain why he'd be there instead of the Fourth. It's still on the BBC website, in fact: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/
A "slightly extended" audio-only version was also released on CD by Big Finish, and later transmitted a couple of times on BBC [Radio] 7.
Oh, yes, I knew that the 8th Dr animated version existed
But I got the impression that earlier post-ers were calling for a DVD release of the original 4th Dr version, with animation just for the missing bits. It was that that wouldn't make sense.
I've never seen 8th Dr Shada, but I've always heard that the "quality" of the animation (e.g. the frame-rate, or something like that?) for the 8th Dr Shada was "only good enough for online", which - so I've been lead to believe - is therefore rather poor quality for watching on DVD (i.e. on a proper TV screen)? If so, then a DVD release of 8th Dr Shada may not be such a brilliant idea?
Look yourself - the link's there above, and it's free to view
It's not "frame rate" so much as the amount of animation is limited mostly to a number of still pictures being manoeuvred on-screen, in a Flash version of something like Mr Benn .
Seventyfour Two posted:
If they were to re-work Shada on telly for the 10th Dr, as some have suggested, how that hell would that be explained narratively? It would be the THIRD time that the Dr has had exactly the same adventure! 
Narratively, it'd be damn near impossible never mind the Shada×3 thing. Given the emphasis they've placed on "Last of the Time Lords", could they really bring Chronotis and another - albeit even more primitive - Tardis in unless they're prepared to restore the Time Lords in general first?
Well after copying it to a DVD (for my own purpose, my VCR is very tempremental so I was lucky to get through the whole thing!) I would say that it could work as a release. A documentary explaining why Shada is what it is would probably be all that's needed.
