The Apologist?

A conversation in the pub earlier this evening reminded me that I hadn't yet written an essay I'd been promising myself I'd foist on this journal, exploring why so many people I know and like have strong reservations, at least, over the Russell T Davies version of Doctor Who, whereas I'm much more enthusiastic about it in general, whatever its faults. This isn't going to appear now, but I thought I'd put down a marker.

I think that I place an emphasis on what worked in a story rather than what doesn't work; see high audience figures and audience identification figures as suggesting that Doctor Who is succeeding and want to celebrate that fact; and have a fan attitude shaped by my 1970s childhood and the series' massive popularity in the early-to-middle Tom Baker period, though that has been a theme of too many articles already.