Re-voicing of the Daleks
The latest special edition from the Doctor Who DVD range is a lulu—a new version of 1972’s Day of the Daleks complete with new special effects and new Dalek voices. Sandy, do we have a clip? Let’s roll it…
On the one hand it’s very exciting and this treatment couldn’t have happened to a worthier candidate. As a teenager, I winced at the Dalek army of four, the lame effects and the future dystopia that looked like a carpark. Honestly, I’m more bothered about the Cybermen voices in Revenge of the Cybermen (why couldn’t they have gotten Nick Briggs to work on that!?) than the Dalek voices here, but put Day of the Daleks in a search on YouTube and 90% of the clips are scenes with re-voicing of the Daleks, so obviously it’s making a lot of other people happy.
Hopefully it will turn out to be Curse of Fenric Special Edition good rather than Planet of Fire Special Edition bad…
Posted by Graeme on Wednesday, October 13 at 4:18 pm
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I have always liked updated effects as long as they give us both versions and thus far they have.
Posted by Doug Grandy on 10/14 at 05:28 PM
Graeme- I do like it BUT I don’t love it like the original series for so many various reasons so between the two it’s really no contest. A series in which the Doctor becomes such a total A-hole at times that I want him to be savagely beaten by Mickey is not one that I can give full marks to.
Besides looking over my “negative” posts the Cybermen comment is basically almost 5 years old. The Dalek comments are quite old as well certainly has to be at least 2 or more.
Now I can’t remember anything recently but if anyone wants to post how brilliant the regeneration in The End of Time is then I will give a fresh new batch of negativity. Since at Tavern The End of Time has been ripped pretty consistently as being rubbish from most quarters.
In fact for me it’s the single worst moment in the history of the show. The reason? Because to me the single greatest moment in the history of the show is the regeneration from 4 to 5. No matter what happens I loved that the Doctor is THE Doctor no question. TEOT says “I don’t want to go!” that the Doctor is NOT the Doctor but someone else just calling himself the Doctor. That I will forever despise so I really don’t feel charitable to the man who wrote it especially since he contradicts everything he himself said during his own run up until that point.
You know what I love? That in Series 5 Moffat ran all over that and restated that the Doctor is THE Doctor no matter what he looks like. I do love that in Series 5. Series 5 took the RTD template and made it for the most part work and make sense. The Doctor is not an insufferable jerk just his regular jerky self.
Posted by Ryan on 10/14 at 09:35 PM
I don’t mind these special editions as long as they keep the originals on the disc as well. I’m a little concerned that unlike Enlightenment and Planet of Fire there seems to be a lot of emphasis being placed on this new edition. That worries me that they might not include the original version this time. Hopefully I’m wrong. Unlike Paramount, who only made the un-altered original Star Trek available on Blu-Ray after enough fans complained about the Remastered versions replacing them, BBC Video/2 Entertain have so far approached the whole remastering concept the right way: make the fancy upgrades, but keep the originals available.
Of course, the money being spent on literally reinventing the wheel COULD be going towards, I don’t know, animating Episode 4 of The Tenth Planet, maybe?
Posted by Alex on 10/17 at 03:29 PM
No! No! No No! No!
I don’t want Day of the Daleks with new FX, I want today’s generation of new fans to see what we saw first time around.
It’s like all these movie “special editions”, stop tinkering about with the originals and make something NEW.
By all means add a ton of extras, extras are cool.
But this new-look hybrid will not do!
I’m think I shall have a bloody good moan about this on my own blog in a day or two.
This kind of nonsense has got to be stopped!
I shall be writing to my MP and taking to the streets!
Mini-rant over!
Posted by Simon on 10/18 at 11:04 PM
Um, Simon, you are aware that they include the original version, and in fact privilege it as the ‘default’ version on the main disc (the new version is always in the special features or on a separate disc). They always do that, and the Restoration Team has always said they would never release a special edition without the original. They’re first and foremost purists.
Posted by Graeme on 10/18 at 11:08 PM
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