I've not really seen any of Doctor Who prior to the RTD Era. So, I can't relate to old school Who at all. Also I had no idea who Ace and the other companion were, or who the old Doctors were or the Professor reference.
I think it was more of an anthology series prior and was more of a kids version of say the Twilight Zone? That's from vague memories of the episodes that I saw in the 1970s on PBS.
RTD and Moffat made it a bit more serialized with a through arc (which admittedly works better for me because I prefer serials to episodic format. Give me a soap opera over an anthology series any day of the week. I'm not a short story fan, more into novellas and novels.)
But, that said...there's a lot of uneven and bad writing in the RTD and Moffat years. My favorite episodes of the RTD time period tended to be the stand-a-lone episodes or two-parters. Blink. Family of Blood. Human Condition. Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead (favorite). Moffat era? I liked the River Song arc, and I liked the arcs better than the stand-a-lones. But I did not like the David Capadali period as well...
So it depends. Television for the most part is dependent on the writing.
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Date: 2022-11-03 12:38 am (UTC)I think it was more of an anthology series prior and was more of a kids version of say the Twilight Zone? That's from vague memories of the episodes that I saw in the 1970s on PBS.
RTD and Moffat made it a bit more serialized with a through arc (which admittedly works better for me because I prefer serials to episodic format. Give me a soap opera over an anthology series any day of the week. I'm not a short story fan, more into novellas and novels.)
But, that said...there's a lot of uneven and bad writing in the RTD and Moffat years. My favorite episodes of the RTD time period tended to be the stand-a-lone episodes or two-parters. Blink. Family of Blood. Human Condition. Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead (favorite). Moffat era? I liked the River Song arc, and I liked the arcs better than the stand-a-lones. But I did not like the David Capadali period as well...
So it depends. Television for the most part is dependent on the writing.