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Post by IMForeman on Aug 22, 2009 2:37:48 GMT
This hasn't been posted before, has it? Apologies if it has, I've been kind of busy lately and thus not been keeping up here. Anyway, so there's this new animated Doctor Who special coming, sounds like something in the vein of The Infinite Quest. I think it was announced before but I completely forgot about it. The BBC press release and picture is here and the official website has a blog up. I have to say, the animation and premise don't sound all that exciting, but more Doctor Who is never a bad thing, right? (Well, in some cases, okay, but never mind.) The fact that there are going to be Americans in it, ergo bad approximations of accents is not reassuring me either.
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Post by librarylover on Aug 22, 2009 13:19:32 GMT
I just watched "The Inifinite Quest" 2 nights ago. Based on this image I think the Doctor looks more like himself in this new one. It's fun that it is set in Roswell.
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Post by Stripes on Aug 22, 2009 13:25:23 GMT
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Post by clocketpatch on Aug 22, 2009 17:53:36 GMT
I just watched "The Inifinite Quest" 2 nights ago. Based on this image I think the Doctor looks more like himself in this new one. It's fun that it is set in Roswell. I agree, and that is very nice. One thing that annoyed me to no end in Infinite Quest was the fact that Ten didn't really look like Ten, but then, I can't really blame the animators for that ~ the man's nose is impossible! Still, based on that promo pic, this looks like relatively high quality animation, rather than that flash cartoon stuff they usually throw out. Which leads me back to wondering, once again, why they aren't making a full series this year, because nice animation is both time consuming and expensive.
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Post by Greg on Aug 23, 2009 1:29:17 GMT
I agrre it looks much better than the last one,
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Post by Abbyromana on Nov 22, 2009 16:09:22 GMT
I have to say after seeing the first part of Dreamland, I prefer The Infinite Quest. There's just some a bit shaky about this attempt at 3-D animation compared to others I've seen. I'm not that impressed with it, but the voice acting makes up for it. I think I'd rather just have it as an audio story than the cartoon that it is. Still, having more DW is always good, so I'll probably still watch the rest of it for the enjoyment.
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 23, 2009 4:01:18 GMT
Having seen it;
Well, the story is interesting, and the voice-acting well done. The animation makes me want to giggle a bit though, since the whole thing looks a bit like a deleted scene from the Sims.
However, when I took my glasses off and let it all blur a bit it wasn't half bad. The background animation is actually quite good, I think it's just the impassively dopey impression they've stuck poor Tennant with that's giving me the problem (especially combined with the voice acting - because you know he's making those crazy expressions of his behind a mic somewhere)
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Post by Abbyromana on Nov 23, 2009 4:23:45 GMT
Having seen it; Well, the story is interesting, and the voice-acting well done. The animation makes me want to giggle a bit though, since the whole thing looks a bit like a deleted scene from the Sims. However, when I took my glasses off and let it all blur a bit it wasn't half bad. The background animation is actually quite good, I think it's just the impassively dopey impression they've stuck poor Tennant with that's giving me the problem (especially combined with the voice acting - because you know he's making those crazy expressions of his behind a mic somewhere) Exactly, CP. I think I would have preferred the flash graphics over this character animation. As you said, the background animation isn't as bad, because it looks like a cut scene from a video game. *silly thought* Perhaps that's why they are doing it. Maybe this is hinting at a future animated Doctor Who video game... and these are the graphics for it. I could see that.
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Post by jjpor on Dec 12, 2009 15:28:08 GMT
Hey, didn't I write this one??!! www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=24511More seriously, I've finally watched this all the way through, and you know, I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to based on the one episode I saw before. I think watching it all in one chunk rather than instalments helped; I found myself not really noticing the frankly ropey animation after a while. The story was actually pretty strong, the aliens were decently realised, and the acting was for the most part pretty decent. For the most part; there were a few dodgy moments, and most of the characters apart from the Doctor were criminally underwritten (and they had at least a couple of really classy actors in the cast, so you would have thought they'd have given them more to do). And I'd argue the Doctor let Colonel Stark off a bit too lightly at the end considering what he'd been planning to do. Apart from all that though, I kind of liked it. If they'd done it with the Infinite Quest/Invasion-style flash animation, I think I would have loved it, just because I find all of that retro UFO conspiracy theory stuff endlessly fascinating. Highlights were the bit where the Doctor was in the Indiana Jones-style secret warehouse ("some men have crates thrust upon them"), and his confrontation with the rather rubbish Men in Black (the fact that they were rubbish was actually intentional). I'd go into stuff like the helicopters being a few years ahead of their time and the fact that Groom Lake/Dreamland is an Air Force base, not an Army base, but that would just be pedantic. ;D
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 12, 2009 17:08:44 GMT
You know, I was thinking all while watching, "this situation seems strangle familiar..." that would be why.
Alas, but the censors had to cut the scenes with naked Romana and the high hippies.
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Post by primsong on Dec 12, 2009 17:28:26 GMT
Hey, I missed that - I vaguely remember starting to read this and being interrupted, then I lost track of it. *adds to to-read pile*
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Post by timeywimeyding on Dec 14, 2009 21:18:52 GMT
I want to see this made into a live action.
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Post by jjpor on Dec 14, 2009 21:27:14 GMT
It'd be great - they'd have to find a location that looked suitably deserty, though.
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 16, 2009 3:14:47 GMT
It'd be great - they'd have to find a location that looked suitably deserty, though. like Dubai you mean?
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Post by Abbyromana on Dec 16, 2009 21:33:01 GMT
It'd be great - they'd have to find a location that looked suitably deserty, though. They could try the U.S. and/or Mexico We have tons of desert area over here.
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Post by jjpor on Dec 16, 2009 22:36:06 GMT
And it'd be authentic, as it was actually set in...well, I think they said New Mexico, but the real Dreamland/Area 51 is in Nevada. Just up the road from Las Vegas in fact; when they used to test nuclear weapons there in the 50s, people could watch the mushroom clouds from their hotels, happily oblivious to the effects of fallout etc... It'd be great - they'd have to find a location that looked suitably deserty, though. like Dubai you mean? Probably better PR to do it in a country with a "government" rather than a "regime" next time, if you know what I mean...
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