Well he doesn't want to watch individual episodes so I can't do the Blink/Library thing.
I definitely agree with making him go back to series 1, but he couldn't take Victory of the Daleks, we had to skip that one after a few minutes. Same with the Silurian two-parter, in the end we only watched the last few minutes of that one. Beast Below seemed to go fine though, but yeah. I'm not too fond of these episodes either, but series one has Aliens of London/World War Three and The Long Game (yikes). I don't want to turn him off at this point y'know. I'll try to convince him to go back after series 5's finale tho.
The thing is the production values might be better, but Moffat's Who has just as many shitty stinkers as RTD's did. The Long Game might have some uber cheap sets and an awful CGI monster, but it has more to offer in a real sense than The Beast Below, really, especially when taken with the Series 1 finale in mind. Likewise, Aliens of London/World War Three has some great stuff at the writing level - especially when you consider this was aired at the height of the Iraq war fever - complete with a Tony Blair lookalike Prime Minister getting killed, something I never thought they'd get past the BBC - even if the execution on the Slitheen isn't great and even if Keith Boak chose to direct it as a children's only show.
I'll table another (perhaps harsh) theory: if he can't on occasion sit through things like Victory, or The Hungry Earth, he may as well not bother with Doctor Who at all. It's what the show is - it's notoriously, beautifully inconsistent, and it is so because of its format, because it can go anywhere and do everything. Sometimes building a new world for that week doesn't come off (like The Beast Below), or sometimes that week's supporting cast let the side down (Like, say, Evolution of the Daleks) - it's a part of the structure of the show. It's what makes Doctor Who wonderful and equally a portion of the time can make it cringey. Watching Doctor Who is like being married or something. For better, for worse. It's never good all the time, and in a sense I really hope it never is. But seriously - if he can't sit through those, he's going to hate most of Series 7, which is arguably pretty consistently as rough as those three episodes.
And I'd say that to him, what I just said. He has to resign to slog through a stinker or two a series if he really wants to commit to watching the show. I don't really support the skipping episodes things, as while Doctor Who doesn't rely on week-to-week continuity, I still think skipping in turn makes other episodes worse. Like, I see Series 1 lists saying to skip from 'Rose' to 'Dalek', which in quality stakes is a great idea, but isn't the impact of 'Dalek' reduced if you don't know how the Ninth Doctor usually handles things? The real impact of that episode is in seeing a character who has been a cool customer for 5 episodes utterly lose it and become unrecognisably ugly. Same for how so many S1 lists say to skip 'Father's Day' (which I don't get as I think that episode is magnificent anyway) - if you do, doesn't it reduce the impact of the Pete/alternate universe plot line in Series 2? The episode skipping is a recipe for less enjoyment. Even the worst episodes of Doctor Who have something to offer. Even Fear Her, the gold standard of shittiness, has nice character moments for The Doctor & Rose - they're really written differently in the back few episodes of Series 2 - that then really helps Doomsday do what it aims to do.
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