Forum:2entertain Shada

Ian Levine twittered last week that 2 entertain had finished their animated reconstruction of the incomplete Shada, and they've now showed it to a handful of people (without the final audio track) to review. (See the first review here.) I think it would be good to get some consensus on how to handle this before it comes out; otherwise, someone's going to tear apart the Shada (TV story) article and someone else will creates a new article under an incorrect name and it'll be a lot of work to get it all back to where we want it.

The first question is, is this a new story, or just a new release of an old story? Obviously, the BBC wants us to think of this as the official DVD of the TV episode, if only because it will sell more copies if they refer to it that way, but we don't have to agree. Unlike The Invasion, where the Cosgrove animation just restored a story that had been broadcast and was now missing, they're effectively creating a new story here: scenes have been storyboarded, directed, and (voice-)acted (by different actors) for the first time ever, without the involvement of Graham Williams, Pennant Roberts, Douglas Adams, and the rest of the production team. Also, is the VHS release of the incomplete Shada a story in its own right, even if part of it is told by Tom Baker (mostly out-of-character)?

So, leave Shada (TV story) as it is, and add a Shada (DVD) or Shada (2 entertain) or something like that (and if so, under what name?), or change Shada (TV story) to be about the reconstruction, and treat the unproduced episodes much like missing episodes? If it does get a separate article, does it get a DW prefix, or something different? And is Gareth Roberts' upcoming novelization the novelization of the incomplete TV story, the animated DVD reconstruction, or both?

Finally, rumors have it that the "without the final audio track" bit is there because Tom Baker is coming in to replace all of Paul Jones' work as the 4th Doctor, but the DVD will have the Paul Jones version as an alternate audio track. That hasn't been confirmed, but if it turns out to be true, how could we credit Paul Jones? Or does that depend on how he's credited on the DVD itself? --70.36.140.19 14:40, September 17, 2011 (UTC)