What is the difference between doctor who and classic doctor who

Then observe how the new series has continued that story into the 21st century and created its own stamp in history of the show; how it has created a new generation of Whovians and progressed the show towards the 50th anniversary. Classic Who April 25, This website uses cookies to improve your experience. OK Read More. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.

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Its the same with female heroes too. Despite the fact that she is meant to be a loner too, Xena constantly has a string of love interests of both sexes. Even asexual characters have to have a love interest of some kind eventually.

Sherlock Holmes is shown to be attracted to Irene Adler in the novels. Its only hinted at, but still it has become much more prominent in subsequent adaptations, some of which have even had Holmes marry Irene and have children with her. The Doctor from Classic Who is the only character who was never given any love interest at all.

The closest they came to that was with Romana, a time lady whose second incarnation was played by Lalla Ward, who was having an affair with Tom Baker at the the time they were making the series. Still ultimately on screen its never even hinted that the Doctor and Romana are anything but friends.

I feel that too many science fiction and fantasy series tend to focus on the romantic relationships between certain characters at times.

I am not saying that I never want there to be any romance in sci fi or fantasy, but ultimately it can get a little bit too much when the fantasy becomes secondary. In the revival when they have the Doctor fall in love with his companions, I think it kind of ruins a lot of what makes the Doctor unique, as well as a lot of his appeal. To start with it does make make the Doctor just like every other hero.

The new Doctor always has to have a love interest. In series 1 and 2, its Rose and Madame De Pompadour. In series 3, Martha is in love with him, and the Doctor turns himself into a human in one episode, and then falls in love with a human named Joan Redfern. In series 4 he has Astrid, though Donna is not in love with him, Russell T Davies apparently had intended to have the companion of that series named Penny be in love with him, and the Doctor be in love with her too.

Under all of this is my need to write the Doctor in love again. That would cheapen the whole thing. Penny is walking into the Doctors life at just the right time. The first time that the Doctor sees Penny it should be like wham! Both hearts. In series 5 Amy Pond attempts to force herself on the Doctor, then of course we have to deal with River Song, the Doctors wife who makes jokes about having crazy bondage sex with the Doctor.

Then we have Clara whom 11 is borderline in love with, then there is also Tasha Lem boss of the space nuns who also has crazy bondage sex with the Doctor. Finally even 12 is not only still lusting after Clara, but also now has a female version of his former archenemy The Master, called Missy who is in love with him too.

Are a perfect couple. At the end of the day the Doctor, for me at least should not be a romantic character. His asexuality was part of what made him unique, and now when he is in love with Rose or River he is like so many other characters, a tormented immortal who is in love with a human who will age and die. Jo Grant the next companion is younger, and the Doctor has more of a fatherly relationship with her, and dotes on her more than he would do Liz.

Sarah is really his best friend, and he is somewhat closer to her than he was too Liz and their relationship is much more intense, though not romantic. Leela meanwhile has more of a confrontational relationship with him, as Leela uses more violent means as a first option than the more cerebral Doctor.

Romana meanwhile being a time lady actually has far, far, far greater technical knowledge than the Doctor. The Doctor has more experience than she does having been exploring the universe longer and also being much older too. Romana however actually is better on a technical level and thus in some ways its a reverse of the Doctor, Liz relationship. Another way I feel the classic Doctor is superior to the revival Doctor, is that his morality is more consistent.

Now the Classic era Doctor was a hero who generally tended to use his mind to solve his problems, but if need be he would use lethal force. He preferred not to, but he would absolutely kill if he had to. There were never moments when the Doctor was not prepared to kill. The only exception to that was in Resurrection of the Daleks. Here the Doctor has a difficulty in killing Davros and hesitates.

This might be seen as something of a contradiction and truth be told it is, but its not that big a one in 26 years. You can also rationalize it. Perhaps the Doctor has difficulty in killing him because technically he is not killing Davros in self defense. Its not like blowing up a Dalek in a fight.

He is planning to kill Davros simply so that he can not cure the Daleks. Whilst it is for a greater good, it is technically cold blooded murder. Later stories see the Doctor attempt to make up for this by trying to kill Davros every time he encounters him. Now in the New Who the biggest problem I have with the Doctor is that his morality is all over the place. The Doctor refuses to shoot him however and gives a big speech about how he never would.

Only problem with this is the Tenth Doctor has wiped out entire species before like the Racnoss! Then there is his condemning the family of blood to an eternity of torture which is obviously a lot worse than just shooting a guy. He tortures minor villains who killed to survive, yet he offered to help Davros a man who tried to destroy every universe?

That is like skinning a shoplifter alive and then showing mercy to the most brutal Gestapo officer. The worst however are in the Doctors dealings with the Master in New Who. The Doctor always shows ridiculous levels of compassion to the Master in spite of how evil the Master is.

Why would he put someone he had been friends with when he was a child above people he was friends with now? Why would he put a psychopathic mass murderer above kind and decent people like Martha Jones? The Doctor is meant to at that point at least to have wiped out his entire people because they went evil. So he killed billions of time lords because they are evil, but not this one time lord? In The End of Time he refuses to kill the Master because that would be so evil, yet he commits genocide at the end technically against his own people?

Its so frustrating as a viewer watching that, as it just makes the Doctor into a raging hypocrite. Worst of all though is in The End of Time when the Doctor refuses to shoot the Master in order to save the entire human race whom he has turned into copies of himself.

So he is putting one time lord above 7 billion humans? Worst of all though is when he forces the Meta Crisis Doctor to live on a parallel earth with Rose because he wiped out the Daleks. The Doctor considers that act of genocide utterly unforgivable, and Rose needs to make him a better man. Thing is Doctor, the last time you met Rose Doomsday she enthusiastically helped you to wipe both the Daleks and the Cybermen. Added to that Rose also wiped out the Daleks at the end of the Eccelston era and gloated about it to Dalek Sec.

So again why judge the Meta Crisis Doctor for destroying a race of Daleks far more dangerous than the ones you and Rose wiped out alongside a race of Cybermen? In his second story he tells a Dalek that is dying and asking for help to die all he likes. He is also happy to kill the monsters in Flatline too.

So again why is it in an issue for him at all to vaporize Missy? Particularly after she has to the best of his knowledge butchered his two friends Osgood and Kate in front of him! Ultimately this inconsistent morality is what makes the New Who Doctor more unlikable to me than the Classic era Doctor.

The Classic era Doctor it was established was willing to kill his enemies and he basically always did. Look at the Classic Doctors dealings with the Master. He does not ever spare him. So the Doctor sets up a plan to murder the Master. He uses the Masters own machine that makes someone see their worst fear on the villain, and leaves him screaming and in pain in an area that is about to be blown to pieces by an atomic bomb.

Of course the Master survives, but the Doctor is devastated at his survival. He kicks him down a flight of stairs and boots him into a bottomless pit.

He later says that the Master is the one person in the universe that he would wish death upon, as he is the quintessence of evil. In the Davison era, the Doctor leaves the Master to get torn apart by his own servants in a city that is fading from existence. In Planet of Fire, he actually burns a pleading Master into nothing but ash. In The Mark of the Rani the 6th Doctor upon seeing a young man get trapped in one of the Masters traps that was meant for the Doctor , actually tries to murder the Master with his own weapon.

The Doctor only spares the Master because he needs him to help his companion, but even then he tells the Master that if anything happens to her, he will force the Master to walk over one of his own traps. Finally the 7th Doctor tries to smash the Masters head in with a rock. Using 10 examples, the list details some obvious contrasts, and maybe some unexpected ones, that hopefully will decide once and for all what really divides the original Gallifreyan from the mad man with a box My short fiction has been published as part of the Iris Wildthyme range from Obverse Books.

What do new Who fans think of the classic series? I belong to several social media groups dedicated to Doctor Who and have attended Gallifrey One , an annual Doctor Who convention that started in , held in Los Angeles. Even within the past five years that I have been in attendance, I have noticed a pretty significant rise in children and young adults cosplaying as one of the Doctors from the new series and although there is a wide age range of attendees, the popular majority has definitely shifted to the reboot.

I was flipping channels looking for something to watch and came across a man nicely dressed, on a pirate ship looking for something in the water. Turns out I was watching the 11 th reincarnate and I have no idea why it caught my attention, but it did and it became the start of my new obsession.

My favorites? Tom Baker 4 and David Tennant 10 are by far the two favorites of all who responded.