Alright no, I have watched some of it. And by some, I mean most of 11's episodes. Fun story: my first exposure to Doctor Who was Angels take Manhattan and I didn't even have an emotional investment in Amy and Rory before that. IT WAS A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. I CRIED JUST A BIT. NOT A LOT, REALLY. JUST, TEAR. HONEST.
IT'S OK MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO CLASSIC WHO AT LEAST WAS ALSO A COMPANION DEPARTURE EPISODE AND I CRIED FOR THAT, TOO.
ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT IT BECAME KNOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING AND HEARTBREAKING DEPARTURES OF DOCTOR WHO HISTORY. BUT STILL.
Man re-watching that episode after I'd actually gotten to know Adric well was just brutal. D:
Oh, hahahahah, weeeeell... if you already started watching Doctor Who out-of-order then I suppose I wouldn't be called a heretic for suggesting such a thing.
So like, if you're already used to skipping around then I guess now might be a good time to watch it straight-forward.
Or just skip around with some other New Who Doctors and get a feel for them, too.
People place way too much importance on watching episodes in order in this show and it really isn't necessary if you ask me. :/ The show is pretty much designed so that you can jump in at almost any time. That's why most episodes (pre-Moffat at least) are stand-alone stories. And even in Moffat's era, not only are a good chunk of stories still stand-alone but, at the very least, you can certainly watch any
season in isolation without much consequence.
It kind of bugs me to see people tell everyone that they
can't skip Nine and have to slog through all of season 1 when, honestly, season 1 was kind of a mess. Granted, it was a mess
for a good reason since the reboot still had no idea what it wanted to be and was trying to appeal to way too many audiences at once, but still. Add to that the fact that Nine is just generally unpopular compared to the other Doctors and this idea that everyone
has to start with those episodes turns a lot of people off to the show when they might really enjoy some of the later stuff.
I was introduced to Doctor Who out-of-order and, if I'd started from 2005's season 1, I probably wouldn't have really gotten into it the same way I did when some of my first episodes were Girl in the Fireplace and Silence in the Library. Of course, I did
come back to Nine later and watch the rest of the 2005 series in-order (cuz, I mean, I don't hate Nine or anything...), and I enjoyed a good chunk of those episodes -- but it helped knowing that the show would change and evolve a ton from that point.
Plus, skipping around tends to give the episodes great re-watchability. Turn Left was epic enough the first time I watched it -- and it was even better after I'd just watched all of season 4 and I understood a lot of the references they made to earlier episodes. Really, I tell people about Doctor Who's re-watchability a lot when I tell people to watch the Classic series, because a ton of New Who episodes are so much better after you've seen the Classics, even if New Who was awesome enough to watch in the first place. Watching New Who by itself in chunks sort of works the same way. Lots of episodes are good by themselves and you don't really need a ton of background knowledge to understand them. Sure, understanding what came before makes each episode
even better, but, hey, that just means you get to see each episode from more than one perspective and have it be awesome each time for different reasons.
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