Faceless Ones Animation

The Faceless Ones is the next animation, out next year:



Bizarrely, they seem to be animating the extant eps as well.

More shitty 90s flash animation.

NuWho reference @ 0:09.

iank wrote:The Faceless Ones is the next animation, out next year:


Bizarrely, they seem to be animating the extant eps as well.

It does strike me as odd as it increases the production cost of the release.That said I don't mind them animating 1 &3 but i would hope the surviving episodes are also included on the release. I appreciate we can access them on the Lost in Time release but for completeness in one place would be nice.

I imagine they will, Macra had all surviving footage, telesnaps, the Colin Baker narrated audio version etc. I guess it will stop some whining that jumping from animation to live action is too jarring.

My guess is that they are trying to animate as much as Season 4 as possible, considering that it is the Season that has the most lost footage. Which I've got no complaints about, more Troughton is a win in my book. And The Faceless Ones is criminally underrated, so hoping much like the Macra Terror, the animators allow their imagination to go wild on scenes.

Also, hoping that the animation is just as good as the Macra Terror, if only to piss Stubagful off after he said that "the Macra animation looked too good and would have liked it to be a bit shittier".

I honestly don't get these people. It strikes me as a pointless exercise trying to animate something to look like cheapo TV. It's never going to be the original, it's never going to be anything but an alternative version of it, so they may as well make it look as good as they can.

I only buy these releases for the reconstructions.

ClockworkOcean wrote:
NuWho reference @ 0:09.

This is legit tempting me not to buy it. Bothering me far more than it should.

ClockworkOcean wrote:More shitty 90s flash animation.

NuWho reference @ 0:09.

Where? I didn't see it?

Why can't these bastards just leave the original show alone? Its bad enough that they stuck Jodie into Scratchman, but these are actual stories from the original!

I reckon we'll get a cameo of Jodie in this.

It just look so insecure. They know there is a danger of someone coming along after them, and wiping their version, so they have to try and retroactively stamp their shit over the originl series.

It's the Magpie Electronics logo from The Idiot's Lantern.

On the one hand, it’s a very underrated story and one I would theoretically be very happy to obtain in animated form. However, as with other members, that NuWho reference is staggeringly off putting. Why are they so uptight as to insert visual references of what is effectively a completely different programme in this? It’s just further affirmation of how bloody egotistical the New Who production team are, and always have been. Arses.

I never picked up Scratchman, and am now glad to have not done so thanks to hearing of Jodie’s inclusion.

Not seen this thread before.
I don't mind The Faceless Ones, but there's others I'd be more interested in.
As for animating the existing episodes, I think that's just dumb. What's the point?

Ronnie wrote:Not seen this thread before.
I don't mind The Faceless Ones, but there's others I'd be more interested in.
As for animating the existing episodes, I think that's just dumb. What's the point?

It’s probably because they assume the general audience aren’t able to cope with alternating between live action and animation, in spite of doing just that with the Shada animation from 2017. If so, they’re certainly underestimating the intelligence of the audience there, and could have honestly reserved money for other missing episodes of more compromised stories, though I hope it’s not too significant a spending of money and resources. I suppose they’re doing it to remain consistent, though I too don’t see the point.

They're idiots.
Who else but Dr Who fans are going buy these? And surely fans just want as much of the original content as possible. The purpose of the animation is purely to fill in the gaps.

Ronnie wrote:They're idiots.
Who else but Dr Who fans are going buy these? And surely fans just want as much of the original content as possible. The purpose of the animation is purely to fill in the gaps.

I think the existing episodes will be included as extra features, but it’s still a strange decision. Then again, based on the NuWho revisionism going on in recent Who related media, they probably have no interest in the desires of Classic fans anyway, and their idiocy can be traced back to the very idiocies of New Who. I’ll probably buy it anyway, mind, unless the NuWho insertions are major (e.g. if Jodie is included). It’s a hard thing to turn down new Troughton material.

Looks like the animations may be coming quicker sooner than later. The October 27 London Comic-Con will not only see a clip from the upcoming Faceless Ones animation but also announce what the next animation following that will be.

Place your bets now!

Evil of the Daleks or Fury from the Deep if they wish to continue with Troughton, and possibly The Savages with Hartnell. Evil is a strong possibility due to directly following The Faceless Ones (which directly followed The Macra Terror) and due to the presence of Daleks enabling a strong market, Fury is another due to being previously rumoured, and the Savaged is the one I’d opt for Hartnell due to being allegedly easy to animate (if they are speeding up the process, they’ll probably opt for the easier stories to animate first).

That tweet from BF earlier in the year has me wondering too. If sales have been strong enough for them to start looking at the animations as an ongoing commercial line, and they're speeding up the releases, they might be wondering what to do if and when they run out of the missing eps...

Ronnie wrote:Not seen this thread before.
I don't mind The Faceless Ones, but there's others I'd be more interested in.
As for animating the existing episodes, I think that's just dumb. What's the point?

So it can be broadcast on BBC America in a consistent format. It gets them extra revenue.

Might’ve known the dumbass yanks would be unable to cope with the changes in format.

They've released a new little clip from Faceless. Polly actually looks a better likeness to Anneke here than she did in the Macra animation IMO.

I find it hard to get tremendously excited about the animations, but so long as the dvds have the actual existing episodes on, then I'll buy them.
I didn't bother with Macra Terror though, I borrowed it from the library.

On the Exclusive Faceless Ones clip posted above, at about 1:20, it looks like they've depicted Delgado's Master on some kind of poster in the background. I think they should be very careful about putting in anything too anachronistic with these animations ongoing. I can appreciate they may be fairly subtly done 'easter eggs' but, although I can just about stomach stuff from other eras of classic Who if it's fairly unobtrusive, I certainly don't want them to go overboard and especially don't want to see them add 'New Who' references into these sixties adaptations!

BillPatJonTom wrote:On the Exclusive Faceless Ones clip posted above, at about 1:20, it looks like they've depicted Delgado's Master on some kind of poster in the background. I think they should be very careful about putting in anything too anachronistic with these animations ongoing. I can appreciate they may be fairly subtly done 'easter eggs' but, although I can just about stomach stuff from other eras of classic Who if it's fairly unobtrusive, I certainly don't want them to go overboard and especially don't want to see them add 'New Who' references into these sixties adaptations!

I was just incredibly grateful it wasn't that cunt Simm leering out of the poster with his clown face.

The Faceless Ones animation is out March 9 according to Zoom, though no official announcement has yet been made.