Spangleton SpingleSpangle
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Hello! I'm new. This is my first thread.
As the title says, this is a thread about the classic era of Doctor Who, focusing on the series prior to it's separate yet equally brilliant reboot in 2005. But while both are fantastic, for me the classic era has a sort of delightful, quaint charm that the new era has never quite been able to capture. Modern Doctor Who often focuses upon story arcs, and consequences, and lore, and what it means to be a time traveller. The classic era didn't do that. It is what it is - a simple story, about a face-changing alien hopping around space with a few friends in tow, getting into trouble.
Any other Classic Whovians on here? If so, what aspects of it do you particularly like? That could be particular Doctors, companions, stories, monsters, producers, whatever you like.
I'll start - for me, William Hartnell, the First Doctor, is absolutely the best Doctor. That's not a common opinion I don't think, but I can't get enough of the character. How quickly you realise, watching that era, that he is so much more than a grumpy old man.
Regarding favourite stories, I would cite The Seeds of Doom, the finale of Tom Baker's second season. Frightening, funny, dramatic, and not the least bit dull - although I love Classic Who, dullness is undeniably one of it's common vices. But this story? Not a bit of it.
Anyone else got any thoughts?
As the title says, this is a thread about the classic era of Doctor Who, focusing on the series prior to it's separate yet equally brilliant reboot in 2005. But while both are fantastic, for me the classic era has a sort of delightful, quaint charm that the new era has never quite been able to capture. Modern Doctor Who often focuses upon story arcs, and consequences, and lore, and what it means to be a time traveller. The classic era didn't do that. It is what it is - a simple story, about a face-changing alien hopping around space with a few friends in tow, getting into trouble.
Any other Classic Whovians on here? If so, what aspects of it do you particularly like? That could be particular Doctors, companions, stories, monsters, producers, whatever you like.
I'll start - for me, William Hartnell, the First Doctor, is absolutely the best Doctor. That's not a common opinion I don't think, but I can't get enough of the character. How quickly you realise, watching that era, that he is so much more than a grumpy old man.
Regarding favourite stories, I would cite The Seeds of Doom, the finale of Tom Baker's second season. Frightening, funny, dramatic, and not the least bit dull - although I love Classic Who, dullness is undeniably one of it's common vices. But this story? Not a bit of it.
Anyone else got any thoughts?