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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 392938" data-attributes="member: 22">Most things about &#039;80s Who didn&#039;t work for me, not least the casting of the companions. You&#039;ll see for yourself when you get there. Or maybe you&#039;ll just absolutely love it!That&#039;s interesting. I guess the first three new Doctors, being younger and more conventionally handsome, are closer to the &quot;romantic action hero&quot; archetype of modern fiction than most of the previous Doctors -- which is probably the only way a contemporary audience would have accepted them: most people on TV are younger and sexier in the 21st century than they used to be. Another example is Blue Peter,&nbsp; a BBC children&#039;s magazine show which has been running almost as long as Who. In the &#039;60s and &#039;70s, the presenters were older and felt like friendly uncles and aunties. Then, somewhere around the 90s, they became younger and cuter like someone you&#039;d fantasise about copping off with at the bus stop. I think the classic Doctors, due in large part to their age and class (they mostly spoke with posh BBC accents), all came across like teachers (albeit all very different kinds of teachers) rather than pretty boys you&#039;d secretly fall in love with. I feel like there&#039;s something quite experimental about the Twelfth Doctor&#039;s tenure. Matt Smith&#039;s Doctor had a very soulful quality. Aside from being the most believably alien of the modern Docs,&nbsp; he had a genuine sweetness and kindness about him, and the Twelfth Doctor feels like a reaction against that: how far he can travel from what he was before while still fundamentally remaining the Doctor?&nbsp; It&#039;s a fascinating journey.I must have taken one of those amnesia pills they were so fond of in Torchwood because I have no idea what any of that means.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 392938, member: 22"] Most things about '80s [I]Who[/I] didn't work for me, not least the casting of the companions. You'll see for yourself when you get there. Or maybe you'll just absolutely love it! That's interesting. I guess the first three new Doctors, being younger and more conventionally handsome, are closer to the "romantic action hero" archetype of modern fiction than most of the previous Doctors -- which is probably the only way a contemporary audience would have accepted them: most people on TV are younger and sexier in the 21st century than they used to be. Another example is [I]Blue Peter[/I], a BBC children's magazine show which has been running almost as long as [I]Who[/I]. In the '60s and '70s, the presenters were older and felt like friendly uncles and aunties. Then, somewhere around the 90s, they became younger and cuter like someone you'd fantasise about copping off with at the bus stop. I think the classic Doctors, due in large part to their age and class (they mostly spoke with posh BBC accents), all came across like teachers (albeit all very different kinds of teachers) rather than pretty boys you'd secretly fall in love with. I feel like there's something quite experimental about the Twelfth Doctor's tenure. Matt Smith's Doctor had a very soulful quality. Aside from being the most believably alien of the modern Docs, he had a genuine sweetness and kindness about him, and the Twelfth Doctor feels like a reaction against that: how far he can travel from what he was before while still fundamentally remaining the Doctor? It's a fascinating journey. I must have taken one of those amnesia pills they were so fond of in [I]Torchwood [/I]because I have no idea what any of that means. [/QUOTE]

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