Doctor Who?

[dogwoodblossom]

Soooo..... I'm afraid I'm opening a can of worms here, but I want to start watching Dr. Who. I've seen a few random episodes (and some Torchwood) but I feel like I'm jumping into the middle. It's sort of vast. Can I just start with the New Who? Should I? Or do I need to start with the stuff from 1963

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[debris_k]

I can give you my personal experience, if that's alright. I started off with nu!Who's series 1 (series 27 of the whole Whoniverse, I believe) - Christopher Ecclestone as the Ninth Doctor *points at icon*, lovely young actress as the companion, and eventually Captain Jack Harkness shows up in the series as well (and the whole Torchwood spin-off is started off). I've watched all of the nu!Who series, but this current nu!nu!Who made me give the whole thing up for good (So much fail, it wasn't even funny anymore. :( ) but Nine remains my fave Doctor. Ten was good, once I got used to him (only took me a whole season, he was so differently energetic than Nine) and I didn't even mind Eleven (it was everything else about series 5 that I did

[dogwoodblossom]

Personal experience was what I was looking for. The consensus seems to be that the new stuff is a good starting point. Which is something of a relief, because even though I love campy weird shit from the 60's, 40 years worth of backstory is somewhat daunting.

I mean, TOS only has 72 (or 73 if you want to argue over totally pointless shit, which of course Trekkies do) episodes to skim.

[debris_k]

And not all old!Who eps even exist anymore - some of the '60/s stuff (I think) got erased when the tapes were reused at the BBC, so, you know, one couldn't watch it all even if one really wanted to. :-)

[amaresu]

No, they weren't erased. They were burned. Which is so much more terrible.

[debris_k]

I thought I read some of the tapes were reused by the BBC, or something, but I could be wrong - I think you're the bigger Who!fan, so you'd know better.

[dogwoodblossom]

Either way. Oh BBC! Why?!