Out of curiosity, were they early-ish Four serials? Because I have attention span problems with some Classic Who as well, only it's almost all in Three era--I just cannot get through Pertwee serials without a friend there to chat and keep me from wandering off, which is a shame because there's some fantastic stuff in there. And some parts of Four's first season, with Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan, trip my ADD in similar ways, as though they're still trying to work out the pacing.
Would that be "in lesbians" in the Scott Pilgrim way, or in the regular way, or both? :P
Mostly the regular way, haha! Though there are some dudes in there. I second (third? fourth?) the Remembrance of the Daleks rec, btw, and would also add Curse of Fenric. Remembrance is just pure cracky fun all the way through, and Fenric is dark but brilliant. And no pacing problems there except that Fenric is bursting at the seams with all the themes and mythology it tries to pack into four episodes: it can roughly be summarized as "The Doctor plays live chess with absolute evil against a backdrop of WWII cryptography, Viking legends, chemical warfare, hot Soviet captains, Ace's timey-wimey mummy issues, and also zombie fish vampires from the future." Utterly mad but it somehow works.
And yeah, One era is magical. This is definitely not a show that becomes more and more dated and badly-paced the further back you go, in linear fashion; Hartnell serials still seem fresh and wide-eyed and all about experimenting and exploring, with a more open-ended format than just defeating a monster every week. And it helps to know that at the time, it was all being made by a crew of young upstarts who'd been shoved into a tiny studio with tin-can equipment and a shoestring budget by the BBC higher-ups, and were determined to sell it to the audience on sheer creativity and force of conviction. It's... very Doctor-ish, in a way. ("Oh, look at me, I'm going to save the universe with a kettle and some string.")
Hmmm, other recs... if you like River and the way she drives the Doctor up the wall by being at least as clever as he is, try Romana's introduction, The Ribos Operation. Also, I don't know how much of series 3 you managed to catch, but it's my absolute favorite ever and the series arc is phenomenal. I highly recommend doing at least a highlights version of it in order--as a baseline, Runaway Bride, Gridlock, Lazarus Experiment, and then everything from Human Nature to the end. (And if you end up wanting more where that came from, have a gander at Four's regeneration trilogy, The Keeper of Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva.)
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Would that be "in lesbians" in the Scott Pilgrim way, or in the regular way, or both? :P
Mostly the regular way, haha! Though there are some dudes in there. I second (third? fourth?) the Remembrance of the Daleks rec, btw, and would also add Curse of Fenric. Remembrance is just pure cracky fun all the way through, and Fenric is dark but brilliant. And no pacing problems there except that Fenric is bursting at the seams with all the themes and mythology it tries to pack into four episodes: it can roughly be summarized as "The Doctor plays live chess with absolute evil against a backdrop of WWII cryptography, Viking legends, chemical warfare, hot Soviet captains, Ace's timey-wimey mummy issues, and also zombie fish vampires from the future." Utterly mad but it somehow works.
And yeah, One era is magical. This is definitely not a show that becomes more and more dated and badly-paced the further back you go, in linear fashion; Hartnell serials still seem fresh and wide-eyed and all about experimenting and exploring, with a more open-ended format than just defeating a monster every week. And it helps to know that at the time, it was all being made by a crew of young upstarts who'd been shoved into a tiny studio with tin-can equipment and a shoestring budget by the BBC higher-ups, and were determined to sell it to the audience on sheer creativity and force of conviction. It's... very Doctor-ish, in a way. ("Oh, look at me, I'm going to save the universe with a kettle and some string.")
Hmmm, other recs... if you like River and the way she drives the Doctor up the wall by being at least as clever as he is, try Romana's introduction, The Ribos Operation. Also, I don't know how much of series 3 you managed to catch, but it's my absolute favorite ever and the series arc is phenomenal. I highly recommend doing at least a highlights version of it in order--as a baseline, Runaway Bride, Gridlock, Lazarus Experiment, and then everything from Human Nature to the end. (And if you end up wanting more where that came from, have a gander at Four's regeneration trilogy, The Keeper of Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva.)