There is a lot of good reasons not to watch classic episodes: they aren’t as well written, acted and produced as the new ones
Well, as an old Classic DW fan who kind of warily liked New Who, then hated it, then warily liked it again, and currently love it due to Peter Capaldi... TV was just done differently back then, and Classic Who could be pretty darn good for the time in which it was produced. New Who isn't perfect. I keep wanting to rant about how gross the end of "Love and Monsters" is to me, or the Tenth Doctor mindwiping Donna (while she protested), or the way Paul Cornell's Seventh Doctor novel, Human Nature, was turned into a Tenth Doctor story that made me cringe (because the original companion was Bernice Summerfield and, naturally, all that could be done with Martha being black in that time period was turn her into a subservient maid), or other things that annoy me as much as Classic Who annoys Newvians.
But no, best not. In the ways you list, I just fundamentally love the idea of DW, and there's a sort of magic about it, which is as it should be.
I'm not saying New Who is perfect, it isn't. But an overall quality of the show is better now than it was then. On average, the scripts are better - how many time has the Third Doctor spent in a cell or trying to escape just because it was a six-parter and the producers had to fill the time with something? How many episodes had similar plot? How many times were they surprising? - and best British actors are being employed. You can't watch the new series first and then the old ones and not notice it.
I don't like everything about the new episodes (I'm with you about the end of "Love and Monsters") but it doesn't mean they're all bad and because of that "the show was better before".
Well, as an old Classic DW fan who kind of warily liked New Who, then hated it, then warily liked it again, and currently love it due to Peter Capaldi... TV was just done differently back then, and Classic Who could be pretty darn good for the time in which it was produced. New Who isn't perfect. I keep wanting to rant about how gross the end of "Love and Monsters" is to me, or the Tenth Doctor mindwiping Donna (while she protested), or the way Paul Cornell's Seventh Doctor novel, Human Nature, was turned into a Tenth Doctor story that made me cringe (because the original companion was Bernice Summerfield and, naturally, all that could be done with Martha being black in that time period was turn her into a subservient maid), or other things that annoy me as much as Classic Who annoys Newvians.
But no, best not. In the ways you list, I just fundamentally love the idea of DW, and there's a sort of magic about it, which is as it should be.
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I don't like everything about the new episodes (I'm with you about the end of "Love and Monsters") but it doesn't mean they're all bad and because of that "the show was better before".
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