All this is probably a moot point now anyway, as the OP has already started watching the Eccleston series.
Time can be rewritten!
"Rose" is a reasonable place to start. That's where I have most people start. Unless you're one of those people like me who is less concerned about going in order and more concerned with seeing something really strong right out of the gate. In which case, I would recommend "Dalek" & "Father's Day" from the Eccleston era; "The Girl in the Fireplace," "Blink," & "Midnight" from the Tennant years; and "The Eleventh Hour," "Amy's Choice," and "Vincent & the Doctor" from the Smith years.
This may not be that new a question, but it's something I don't know. I undrstand the good Doctor is the last of his kind. The Time Lords all perished in the Time War. My question is if they're time travelers, why can't he go back to before they were all killed, or why hasn't he encountered any other time traveling Time Lords?
I'm sure there's probably an answer to this, but I'm not sure what it is. Thanks.
It's called a "Time Lock." To understand it any further, I would recommend taking Cardinal Borusa's class on Applied Temporal Mechanics at the University of Gallifrey. But then, you can't reach the University of Gallifrey because it's Time Locked.
Which leads me to Borusa's next lesson: "Recursive Temporal Logic & You."
Might be just the fact that I'm used to a less 'quirky' Doctor or a younger Doctor or just it feels like watching ANY old show from the 70s or 80s and you cringe at the writing, the clothes, the now really dated effects and costuming. Even early TNG can make people cringe at it worse than TOS.
Overall as decades, I think the 1980s have dated much worse than the 1960s. As a result, I find the '60s incarnations of both
Star Trek &
Doctor Who far more watchable than their '80s counterparts.
I did have a friend who I first introduced to the new series. Then I tried to give her some Tom Bakers, but she couldn't watch them because he "wasn't sexy enough." (Thankfully, her 1-year-old daughter seems to love classic
Doctor Who. She finds it very soothing.)
I'm relatively new to
Doctor Who fandom but I still kinda count myself as a classic fan. I only first discovered the old series about a year before the new series started. By that point, I was sufficiently intrigued by the old series to be very excited about the premiere of the new series. But it took a while for me to get adjusted to the more leisurely rhythms of the classic series. Honestly, I'm not sure I would have made the effort to acquire the taste had I not been in kind of a sci-fi lull at that particular point. (
Angel had just been cancelled, I was bored with
Enterprise, and I think I was between seasons on
Stargate SG-1.) I'm very glad all the stars aligned at that particular point to allow me to get into classic
Who at that point.
I sometimes suspect that, had I started with the new series, I never would have given the classic series a real chance. I probably would have quit after having been largely bored & confused with "Spearhead from Space" the first time out. (It's actually an excellent story but a very difficult one to start out with because the TARDIS is barely involved. Instead, it's the start of the new format in the early Jon Pertwee years where the Doctor is exiled to Earth and works as scientific advisor for UNIT.)
Thanks for your help.
Convert me!
"Once you are converted, you will help us delete the one known as 'Doctor.'"
And if all of this companions are as cute as Rose, I'm definately watching more.
She's a decent cutie but I prefer me some Amy goodness! Martha's not too bad either. And Clara just has perfect skin....
Yeah, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
