The Classic Series vs The New Series

[carmen_lj]

There's a curious discussion going on at teh OG just now (worry not, kids, this is nought to do with shipping or beloved companions) that's a general back and forth snarkorama over whether Classic or New Who is better. The answer, course, is that both are rather smashing and 'betterness' is so ridiculously subjective (and, indeed, Lambert is as different from Letts as Adams is from RTD, that viewing the whole Classic series as single entity is silly anyway) that it's an almost meaningless discussion.

Anyway point is that someone said that no-one who's got into Who through the New Series and then gone onto Classic will prefer the Classic one. So I was curious (and I'm pretty sure at least one person on teh flist has pretty explicitly stated that they do) and will thus discover truth by means of that Ultimate Skientific Test, the LJ poll.

[Poll #1041361]

I have reluctantly provided a cop-out choice. I will Totally Judge You for picking it.

Comments

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I'm probably a terrible person to claim to prefer the Classic series, as I haven't seen too terribly much of it. I've read some of the books, though, and have discovered a preference for WACKY SPACE HIJINKS over DEEP EMOTIONAL DRAMA AND PLOT. The New Series (or its fans, at the very least) need to stop taking things so seriously~)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised by the number of New Old Skool fans who prefer the classic one. Wack space hijinks FTW!

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I think quite a few of them came over due to exasperation over the ongoing Rose Woes. (And quarries. Who doesn't love a good quarry?)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

My favourite quarry is the one in Terror of the Autons, where it is actually being a quarry.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Such clever use of available geography. I don't think the New Series has managed to work one in yet, unless Utopia's Malcassario or the outdoor confrontation between the Doctor and the Master at the end of S3 count.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Oh, they count. I totally cheered when they arrived on Malcassario and, lo, it was a quarry! :D

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Albeit a quarry bedecked with professional-type looking Ancient Ruins, but it's the thought that counts!