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on the one hand, I'm all for promoting Classic Who and introducing more people to it. but on the other hand, I can totally see why the New Who player might not want to watch Classic Who, if only for the radically different format change wrt episode length (and I don't blame them, some of those six parters are a fucking SLOG.) Different strokes, anon.

I'm always a little torn on this. On the one hand, I get why no one wants to watch thirty years of who. But on the other, I feel like playing the doctor does require at least a basic understanding of classic who. I mean, they're the same character.

In my mind it's like if you were playing Yuna from FFX-2 without ever playing FF. You could do it, but there's still a hole somewhere.

caveat that I'm totally canonblind with regards to Final Fantasy so can't talk about that example, but I'm willing to cut New Who Doctor players a bit of slack mostly /because/ of the whole thirty years of canon thing and even Classic players haven't seen everything (whereas FF is just one game, right?)

of course, Doctor Who does have great resources for people to just get a basic understanding (TARDIS wikia, the Doctor Who youtube page has a smattering of Classic Who clips, all the specials that BBC America made around the 50th anniversary), so while I'd still love it if New Who Doctor players just like, sat down and watched 'Genesis of the Daleks' or one of the greatest hits serials, at least there are resources if they don't have the time/dailymotion links/whatever to at least dip into Classic Who.

did you mean ffx, or just ff?

because expecting someone to play earlier ff games to rp a character from a recent one is kind of ridiculous. none of them are connected or set on the same world, except when they're direct sequels, and the components that do recur between them are really minor. playing the very first final fantasy isn't going to add anything to someone playing from ffx-2.

don't be pedantic you know they fucking meant ffx

The analogy was drawn in reference to watching 30+ years of canon, though, which scope-wise is a hell of a lot closer to saying "you should play all of ff".

i actually didn't, which is why i asked

and then went on to respond as if they actually said exactly what they meant

Yeah, I'm well aware of that and I'm sitting on my hands because I know New and Old are really different shows. But I want someone to squeal with about Benton/The Deadly Assassin/Guy Crayford feels/etc.

Bentooooooon. c: he's not my fave member of team UNIT (my heart belongs to Yates), but you have good taste, anon.

Sergeant Benton? I'll squeal with you, nonny. I adored the UNIT eps in the Third and Fourth Doctors' era.

personally i hated them. i didn't watch doctor who for the doctor sitting around earth pretending to be james bond. making him stuck on earth might have been a good financial idea, but it wasn't doctor who.

I see this argument but I still find UNIT fun. Except in the late 4 era. By the time he's working for UNIT again after quitting twice in The Seeds of Doom it's like 'dump the motherfucker already'.

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