I thought they did a great job with the colorization. The process has come a long way since the technology was invented.
However, did anyone notice that they cut lines from Coast-to-Coast Bigmouth? Such a classic episode that I wish they had shown it unedited. They also deleted the tag.
It doesn't matter how technologically perfect colorization ever becomes. It is wrong. Yes, I'm one of those people.
shareI don't really care one way or another, but I want to point out something anyway.
With the greyscale, as annoying and dull as it can be, your imagination provides the color. It will be a better color, and you have the FREEDOM to choose any colors at any time - you can have different colors in your mind for every single episode, or even every single frame, if you like, or you don't have to even focus on colors, or you can just see the show without colors OR grayscale, just in some kind of surreal, impossible-to-exist 'inbetween'.
With color, all these options are destroyed, your imagination goes back to sleep.
I think it's more fun to watch things in grayscale, at least sometimes, just to evoke this effect and to keep my imagination more active. Sometimes a limitation brings creativity - if you have 800 channels and million terabytes of hard drive and memory space and the fastest CPU around, it's no fun to make a song.
But if you have only three channels, four waveforms and some limited filter ability, it's really inspirational to see what you can make within those limitations.
In the same way, the greyscale can inspire a deeper immersion, since your imagination takes part in rendering Rob's and Laura's world, instead of a detailed, colorful, completely complete and fully realized and rendered presentation of the world, whose rendering doesn't require your imagination anymore, and thus, becomes more dull.
I wouldn't mind seeing the colorized versions of the episodes (haven't seen them), even if just out of curiosity. But I wonder if the atmosphere is still intact..
> With the greyscale, as annoying and dull as it can be, your imagination provides the color. It will be a better color, and you have the FREEDOM to choose any colors at any time
I guess if folks have access to the same drugs you do! ;-)
Don't like it just down down the color saturation on your TV and you have B&W.
If someone wants to go through the effort and expense to colorize and old film, why not?
You have to admit that most of the peolpe who made films in those days made the best
of B&W, but if they had had a choice they would have shot in color.
Not need to get all artsy-fartsy pretend sophistication about it.
And it is not like the DVDS is a massive cultural classic. I watched it as a kid on TV, and
I would have watched it and liked it just as much if it was in color or colorized.
Colorization certainly has improved. I remember early "efforts" where the person's mauve skin tone would suddenly intrude on the hairline and then back. Weird.
This show would have been shot in color if they had the budget for it.