Post by Cyggy on Mar 15, 2023 18:51:27 GMT
From a 2022 rewatch.....
Mission to the Unknown:
Opted to watch MRBLOBBY786's clever splice of the original soundtrack with the modern re-enactment (that has been posted in the MRBOSSMAN) account on Dailymotion). Think it will take us the closest we can get to the original - bar the episode turning up one day?
It's a bit disconcerting at first to be watching modern day actors lip-synching (with a bit of editorial help) to the original soundtrack, but it helps greatly that the new actors seem to have listened intently and often to the original soundtrack. The synching throughout this matches the original a little too often and accurately to the point where one can only conclude that the new actors wanted to match the original so much that they studied the surviving audio closely. Kudos to them if so. If not, kudos to MRBLOBBY and his editing skills.
Seeing the re-enacted reminds me of how little studio space the original production team had to show us hidden areas of the galaxy. There's a claustrophobic feel to this episode. The bottom part of a spaceship is all we get, but it surely is all we need. The jungle in this re-enactment seems similarly cramped, but I don't imagine it was any different in the original.
7:19 does make me wonder if that is how they achieved the transformation into a Varga on screen originally.
I can't help thinking that this whole episode was all part of Terry Nation's ongoing attempt to show that the Daleks didn't need that dratted Doctor and co. to work in their own series. I don't think they do though, or at least not in the format pitched here. I think an ongoing series of hard hearted astronauts killing each other as often as the Daleks did just wouldn't have worked long term.
When I first heard of this re-enactment I thought it was going to be a clunky, badly acted embarrassment, to be honest. But the fact that they had the end product in 4:3 black and white, along with the commitment of all involved all worked in it's favour. And now the melding of the soundtrack with the new footage has performed a bit of a miracle in almost bringing a lost episode back to us entirely?
The re-enactment does make me wonder which bits fall a bit below par visually in comparison to the lost original - some of those alien delegates look a bit stage-play-costume ropy to me - but also raises the question of whether the re-enactors might have improved some of the visuals of the episode in any areas? We will surely never know?
Good cliffhanger ending for the epic to follow in five week's time.
That was the strangest viewing experience of this rewatch journey so far. It didn't feel like I was watching a missing episode at all, but a weirdly existent one. If this episode were never to come back I don't think it cuts as deeply as many other lost episodes, for "Mission to the Unknown" - complete with it's original soundtrack - is now there to watch whenever we like.
With thanks to all the folk who made the re-enactment - and to MRBLOBBY too!
Mission to the Unknown:
Opted to watch MRBLOBBY786's clever splice of the original soundtrack with the modern re-enactment (that has been posted in the MRBOSSMAN) account on Dailymotion). Think it will take us the closest we can get to the original - bar the episode turning up one day?
It's a bit disconcerting at first to be watching modern day actors lip-synching (with a bit of editorial help) to the original soundtrack, but it helps greatly that the new actors seem to have listened intently and often to the original soundtrack. The synching throughout this matches the original a little too often and accurately to the point where one can only conclude that the new actors wanted to match the original so much that they studied the surviving audio closely. Kudos to them if so. If not, kudos to MRBLOBBY and his editing skills.
Seeing the re-enacted reminds me of how little studio space the original production team had to show us hidden areas of the galaxy. There's a claustrophobic feel to this episode. The bottom part of a spaceship is all we get, but it surely is all we need. The jungle in this re-enactment seems similarly cramped, but I don't imagine it was any different in the original.
7:19 does make me wonder if that is how they achieved the transformation into a Varga on screen originally.
I can't help thinking that this whole episode was all part of Terry Nation's ongoing attempt to show that the Daleks didn't need that dratted Doctor and co. to work in their own series. I don't think they do though, or at least not in the format pitched here. I think an ongoing series of hard hearted astronauts killing each other as often as the Daleks did just wouldn't have worked long term.
When I first heard of this re-enactment I thought it was going to be a clunky, badly acted embarrassment, to be honest. But the fact that they had the end product in 4:3 black and white, along with the commitment of all involved all worked in it's favour. And now the melding of the soundtrack with the new footage has performed a bit of a miracle in almost bringing a lost episode back to us entirely?
The re-enactment does make me wonder which bits fall a bit below par visually in comparison to the lost original - some of those alien delegates look a bit stage-play-costume ropy to me - but also raises the question of whether the re-enactors might have improved some of the visuals of the episode in any areas? We will surely never know?
Good cliffhanger ending for the epic to follow in five week's time.
That was the strangest viewing experience of this rewatch journey so far. It didn't feel like I was watching a missing episode at all, but a weirdly existent one. If this episode were never to come back I don't think it cuts as deeply as many other lost episodes, for "Mission to the Unknown" - complete with it's original soundtrack - is now there to watch whenever we like.
With thanks to all the folk who made the re-enactment - and to MRBLOBBY too!