Who who?

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OK, I am a trifle peeved about this whole Matt Smith thing. Because there I was, all set to leap into the Doctor Who experience, and I had figured that this impossibly crazy-sexy-cool Eleven everybody kept promising was going to be my jumping-in point, as it were. I would ride onto the TARDIS on a wave of general fun and excitement.

...Yeah. I don't

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If you're not down with the angst, then stay far away. The Ten/Rose angst was EPIC and, IMO, VERY ANNOYING. I'm biased cause I'm in the minority of not liking Rose very much. Per Steven Moffat, the new head writer, blame the 8th Doctor for introducing snogging to the Whoverse, LOL. As for Classic Who, DVDs have been/are being released but not in any particular order, I believe.

In total agreement about the convoluted storylines a la Lost and Prison Break. Gave up on both of them pretty early.

PS. K-9 does return for cameos in S2 & S4 along with Sarah Jane :)

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Yeah, the prospect of snogging, that was another weirdness. In my (admittedly limited) experience, the Doctor's companions treated him with a sort of good-natured contempt (when he wasn't saving their lives, of course, and even then it was 'Oh, so you've finally decided to show up, then?!")

I liked this; it was a welcome change from the American tradition of Holy Fawning Sidekicks, Batman!

Re: Prison Break...I used to work in a cubicle with four yuppettes, and this was their 'water-cooler' show, so ironically I spent the entire first season so well up on the plot twists I could've written an episode guide. On the whole, I don't think you've missed much. :)

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Well, I think there's enough other stuff going on in New Who that you can look past the angst, though I don't particularly like the Tenth Doctor's relationship with Rose (I liked her with Nine, mostly, but somehow she and Ten brought out the worst in each other. Which could be interesting, but not if the writers think it's perfection).

However - there is lots of Old Who out there and lots of it is really rather good, though you won't be able to watch from beginning to end as not all of it has been released (and some of it was wiped by those idiots at the Beeb). The first three Hartnell stories are available in a boxed set - the first story has its draggy moments, though the first episode is one of the best things the BBC has done, full stop - then there's a Dalek story. I also highly recommend "The Aztecs" from One's epoch; Two's era was mostly lost, but "The Mind Robber" and "The Invasion" are both cracking stories, and... er, stop me before I list all my favourite Old School stories...

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PS: The Daleks were always pretty solid looking, though their weapons were made of sink plungers and egg whisks. The tin-foil was used for the cybermen...

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Egg whisks? Really? *is delighted*

See, this is part of what draws me to the old-school; I'm Canadian, loving this kind of earnest effort just comes naturally.

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Well, I think there's enough other stuff going on in New Who that you can look past the angst

Yeah, upon calmer reflection - and perusal of various f-list icons - I am thinking this might be true. There is the Adipose, and that one little pic with Ten and the kitten that rj_anderson has...

Anyway, please do list as many favourite old stories as possible - I'm fascinated already. One of the major problems with getting into this show is there's so much of it; any sort of road map welcome...