I’m an old school fan of Doctor Who, and I became a fan in the late 90s/early 200s when it wasn’t even popular. I watched most of the classic series (although there is still a ton I haven’t seen). A lot of them are extremely slow and boring, but there are a lot of great ones as well.
Now for the new series – I was extremely excited when I heard that the show was being rebooted for 2005. I thought Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor was good and I highly enjoyed quite a few episodes of the first season of the new show, but the tone felt a bit off, like they were marketing it too much towards kids. Then came David Tennant and the series just got too over the top silly for me to enjoy anymore. It has improved slightly with Matt Smith, but I still don’t like the tone of the current series, which is definitely going for camp over any kind of realism (even hyper-realism). Hopefully this will improve with Peter Capaldi’s upcoming era.
