New to Who: Where to Start Doctor Who

A friend of mine knew I was the right person to ask about where to start when he decided to watch Doctor Who. I told him what I thought he'd like best, but it's different for everyone. Though I've never met any of them, I know that people sometimes don't like the series, and I think that is partly because people don't know where to start. Between 11 Doctors (for all intents and purposes) and the 2013 Christmas special, "The Time of the Doctor", being episode 800 and story 240, there's a lot choices. I've made this little flowchart to help you decide which route is best for you, in my advice.

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Now, this is only one way of approaching it. What I think is ideal, and what I did, is to start with Nine and get caught up, then watch the Classic episodes.

There will be more posts regarding what you need to know when starting Doctor Who. They can be found here.

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What is Doctor Who About?

Its about friendship and bravery and love and loss, and life and death and forgiveness and guilt, and being human and being less than human and sometimes a bit more than human, skill and intellect and sometimes a little bit of luck, finding the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary, looking up at the night sky and realizing you're a part of an impossibly beautiful and mysterious universe and that you don't know all the answers no matter how clever you are.

Its about looking inside yourself and realizing you're far greater than the external conditions of your life: you're not a shopgirl, your not a successful medical doctor, you're not a temp, you're not a little girl who needs to grow up or a boy that thinks the love of his life could have done better. You're the most important person in creation and at the same time you're the most insignificant thing in the world  and having the ability to choose between the two at any given time is fantastic. Its about embracing your inner darkness so that you can stand in the light of your truth. It's about having the guts to do what's right even when everyone else just runs away.

It is also about an alien known as "The Doctor", who travels through time and space in his starship that looks like a police box who saves people and other aliens with the help of his companion and the help of a tool called a "sonic screwdriver".