Somebody spent a small fortune trying this a while ago with disliked results https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/entertainment/ailing-doctor-wh...
replyThey animated a lot of the missing pieces of the missing episode Shada with excellent results. If AI could do something of similar quality that would be wonderful.
replyThey seem to have been pleased with the results:
reply> “It has to be worth it for the pleasure it’s brought me to see them,” Levine said. “Doctor Who runs all night in my bedroom, complete, nothing missing.”
Ah I mean others disliked the results.
replyMake up your own mind I suppose, I doubt you will find them rewarding: https://youtu.be/rQabMPpdQnk?si=Fm9Yqj7EwAjYp5np
Well heck - many don't even like the originals at all :p. On the contrary I found these much more enjoyable than the audio and stills! Of course I'd prefer more of the original copies be found... but for now the AI ones fill the gaps in my collection instead of the audio reconstructions.
replyDo we also have stills of all the episodes? Or only audio?
replyThere are production stills that are used like a slide show and combined with the recorded audio.
Certain episodes have been reconstructed using animation such that the basic scene blocking and events are played out alongside the recorded audio.
replyFeels a bit like Jurassic Park
replyThe risk of the episodes going wild and kill lawyers seems minimal though.
replyThen what is AI even good for? :(
replyRisk or benefit?
replyFrom a utilitarian pov yes. But that's completely missing the artistic point. Why shoot a film when you could just feed the script into an AI?
replyIt could recreate missing episodes using the extant episodes. That's something worthwhile doing until someone finds them. It's not creating a complete new series.
replyPeople want to find the missing episodes because of their historical value as actual human artistic creations, and not because they want to watch a thing that looks like an old missing episode.
replyThere would be as much value in an "AI-recreated" missing episode as there would be in taking the audio of a modern episode and using AI to create a new video track for it.
> People want to find the missing episodes because...
replySpeak for yourself!
Even if it's motion comic level animation, it'd still be nice to see combined with the audio recordings.
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