![]() If you're in a hurry, you could start with season 5. I did this accidentally as I was marathoning all of newWho, and after I finished watching all the seasons and was missing old doctors it was amazing to go back and watch the episode I'd missed and return to an old doctor's episode without having seen it before. Make sure they're unimportant stand-alones. Also try to watch at least one episode with every companion (even minor companions like Captain Jack, Mickey, and Rory).Īlso! Skip an episode here and there. Don't forget to watch The Lodger just because it's funny. Make sure to watch the first two episodes of season 6 (The Impossible Astronaut and Day o the Moon, I think) because it's referenced in season 9. Make sure to watch Silence in the Library (it's a 2-parter), I think it'll be important for not-yet-out episodes. Of course, I'd also reccomend marathoning through all 9 seasons without skipping anything, but if you were doing that you probably wouldn't be asking about which episodes to watch. I don't reccomend watching season finales without seeing the rest of the episodes in the season first, otherwise there's no "aha!" moment when all your questions from previous episodes get answered. ![]() If you started with 10 or 11 you'd have 2 or more seasons of the same Doctor, but 9 only has one season.Īfter season 1, watch the first episode of 10 and 11 at the very least. Plus, you get everything from the intro to the regeneration condensed in one season. Plus, it has one of the best finales ever, and one of the best two parters ever, and one of the best doctors (biased? Who, me?). It introduces the daleks, explains the TARDIS, sonic screwdriver, all that stuff. Season 1 (9th doctor) explains all the basics. Specifically episodes involving the Master. You could watch a few good-quality standalone episodes from season 8 and 9 to get a feel for the 12th doctor, but season 8 isn't very good, and season 9 has so many things that don't make sense unless you know the backstory (daleks, the master, timelords, "last of the timelords," etc). If you haven't seen Blink yet, watch that first.ĭon't start with season 8 or season 9, because the first two episodes of season 9 rely heavily on nostalgia (they reference previous seasons and personally, I think they have no plot), so they'd make no sense to a newbie. Let yourself form your own opinions on your favorites. I think the die hard Whovians sometimes place too much on the history, the villains, the companions, all of the nit-picky details that some seem to fuss over ad nauseum. (Can anyone truthfully say that their 8 year old self is the same as who they are today?) Eventually, you will gain an appreciation for the concept that the Doctor is a single individual that changes (matures) with each regeneration. It isn't important where you start in the series, consider it a journey of unwrapping the character and how that character changes. (I grew my appreciation for Tom Baker after viewing multiple shows - I think this is true of all of the individual Doctors.) (yeah, I know, the multi part episodes should be viewed as a single story and not as separate episodes)įor me, I grew up with the 4th Doctor. One attribute of Doctor Who that has always been enjoyable is that he is a time traveler - his life isn't lived as a sequence and every episode can be viewed as a stand alone story. I disagree about the need to start with Eccleston (or even that god awful movie).
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