Doctor Who: 12 Fanboy Complaints That Need To Die

2. Modern Doctor Who Is Not The Same Show As Classic Who!

Again it comes back to that previous statement that Doctor Who is always changing, always reinventing itself and that is what keeps it fresh to this very day. Sure it has a somewhat different format to Classic Who, but that's because the show had to attractive to a 21st Century audience. TV is faster paced than it was back in the 70s and 80s; had Doctor Who followed the same style as Classic Who, the chances are it might not have been as successful, certainly not outside the UK. That's not to say all twenty seven series of Doctor Who, from An Unearthly Child to Survival were the same either; quite the opposite. Harttnell's era was hard sci-fi and historical narratives, Troughton brought the fear with many memorable monsters, there was a radical change with Pertwee's Earth-based UNIT era and then the show went back to the stars with gothic horror in Tom Baker's early years. It's not just the style; the formats changed too: in Colin Baker's years, Doctor Who ran in the now traditional 45 minute format and if you look at the companion-centric arc surrounding Ace in Sylvester McCoy's last couple of years you begin to see a show that isn't far off Nu Who. If you went straight from the final pre-cancellation story Survival and go straight into Rose, you wouldn't see a radical change in style between them. Simply put, Nu Who and Classic Who are the one and the same show.