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The worst wait was the one whole 'Doctor who is gone' one...9 years...Well way more of that if like me you like to forget about the movie..but I'm barely old enough for the movie to comprehend what the hell was going on
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Well yes but I didn't live through that hiatus. Also back then it really wasn't a hiatus as much as it was a cancellation - and the fans didn't really expect the series to return anytime soon. :lol

Also, what was wrong with the movie? I mean, other than the fact that it has a very different tone and feel than what we've come to expect from Who over the years and that it brings up some very interesting and unexpected details about the Doctor's character which all writers after the fact seem to have pretended never happened. I really can't blame the movie for those points, though - they were trying to create something that would result in a series reboot starting with the 8th Doctor, and since the old series [i]did[/i] get cancelled due to lack of popularity, it makes sense that they'd try to go some different directions with it in an attempt to find something people liked. It also explains that one implied trait of the Doctor that has left the fans scratching their heads to this day, since the writers probably planned to explore that more during the hoped-for new series, only for the movie to not generate enough interest to make this happen. 

It's sort of the same reason why I can't hate on season 1 of the actual new series, despite it being somewhat of a mess - they knew the show had been cancelled once before so they tried a whole bunch of new things to see which would be most popular and therefore test to see what direction the new show would take, and at the same time you can tell they're still trying to appeal to fans of the Classic series. It's like season 1 was their attempt at pleasing as many people as possible - with each episode targeted at a different group. Oh! And let's not forget that they were also bringing in huge new concepts (namely, the Time War) in order to make the Whoniverse feel really different than it did in the Classics - oh and the Doctor was also testing out a lot of new gadgets to find something that could potentially become nearly as useful and as signature as the sonic screwdriver (and they were successful in this with the psychic paper). So yeah that's a lot to fit into one season! I acknowledge that season 1 isn't the show's best but given their situation and what they were trying to do, I really have to appreciate the effort.

The movie's the same way for me - except I like it a lot more than season 1 on account of the fact that Paul McGann became my 2nd favorite Doctor of all time and Seven -> Eight was probably the most horrifying regeneration to watch, and that's what made it so memorable. 

Also I edited my post.