Sometimes the truth is more strange than science fiction.
A “Doctor Who” superfan passed a Mini Forze to recreate 97 lost episodes of the series using AI-so could see everything again before he dies.
London’s music producer, Ian Levine, 71, sold his royalties to finance his mission of filling the gaps in the archives of the beloved British television series that said he cost £ 100,000, or more than $ 130000, although he probably ever seen herself.
“I have approached death a lot,” said Levine, who is fighting nasal cancer and has been limited to a wheelchair since a cerebral spill 11 years left it with limited use on his left side.
“I thought:” I don’t want that I haven’t seen them, “so I made my mission to see them before,” he said. “I made many sacrifices to do this.”
Levine, who previously suffered bladder cancer, sepsis and individual sarcoidosis, estimates that she spent £ 70,000 or her own mass, while a group of other fans contributed other £ 30,000 through a donation. He searched the world to Bangladesh and Türkiye to find designers to the work of making the images of the photos, the notes and the real audio of the stories.
“For every good I found, I found 20 scammers who wanted me to do it,” I sent £ 100 first or won the and then I will send you a clip, “he told the publication in a telephone interview from England.” Nineteen of 20 times the clips were absolutely ridiculous, only innumerable garbage … I was scammed by 19 different people. It cost me less £ 10,000 in scams. “
Since the AI remakes are not authorized by the BBC, now it is only sharing the videos with the small group of friends and fellow who also contributed to the effort, said Levine, who has hooked Bone in the program from the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in 1933.
The BBC One had a policy of purging films after transmitting in what now seems a strange and terrible movement of myocity, the important gaps in their files, including the first six black and white seasons of a doctor who “” who travels in time and space.
The copies of the lost stories have appeared over the years in private collections and have been found in foreign television studies where they had been sent to broadcast years ago, but the reality is that many or those that are still missing no longer exist in any way.
The BBC itself has used audio recordings made by surviving fans of TV transmissions to make animated recreations of several of the missing episodes, but Levine and some other purists have ruled them out as “cartoons” that products.
The boring nature of Levine has made him polarize in the rabid fandom of the show. The recent Fiery shots that caused a violent reaction, include the railing against the launch of a woman in the main role in 2017 and Bill’s episodes recently for a perceived “Woke” agenda.
“Doctor Who ‘takes his beloved character, like Tarzán, a timeless character, that the people who grew up with love and you are crushing him in a box,” said Levine, who is openly, about recent criticism. “It’s something I feel quite strongly about it.”
Levine’s recreations now have their own critics, with a full section of Fandom online mocking their quality, and its manufacturer.
But others look at Levine as a hero for their recreations.
“At the end of the day, he is just a fan, a fan like me, a little nerd, a little crazy, a lot of hyperbolic, enthusiastic for the maximum and desperate to see the things again that have been lost,” said Paul Ebbs, a writer and a fan who has seen the recreations and blames some of the fans in some fans, “Luddita attitude with AI.”
“Ian saw all these programs in the original transmission, they are part of their development DNA, hey, he feels back, hey, and experience those magical moments again, the mortal is removed,” added Ebbs, 50. “As a fan, I feel very lucky to have my legs capable of seeing them and so shoe that he put his head in the lion’s mouth to do them. All the power for him, I say.”
With the Vitriolo that he has seen and the money he has spent, the music producer said that everything is worth it because now he transmits each episode of the original format or AI of his five hard drive in Terabyte.
“It is worthwhile for the pleasure that brought me to see them,” Levine said. “Doctor Who runs all night in my room, complete, nothing is missing.”
“Doctor Who” was executed from 1963 to 1989, then relaunched in 2005 with 14 different actors so far interpreting leadership. His last season, transmitting in Disney+, premiered on Saturday.