Quote: sootyj @ September 10 2012, 9:49 AM BSTAt it's best it's equal to New Who, at it's worst it's some what worse than Buck Rogers. But this idea it was a mythical wonder of scifi is just well bollocks.
You've officially turned into a young person, the kind of spindly little dweeb who upon seeing the original Star Wars for the first time says: 'It was boring'.
The reason that Classic Who is so venerated is three fold - the storytelling was great, the acting was top notch and finally, they were putting out fresh new ideas, a lot of them based on actual science.
If you transposed the production values and special effects of New Who onto Classic Who, it would become abundantly clear just how good the older episodes were.
But I guess it's down to a matter of taste - you can sit there terrified as the Doctor and Teela are trapped in a Victorian lighthouse watching everyone around them die or you can watch men kissing, gay robots, dinosaur riding hi-jinx whilst receiving a lecture on gender politics.