War Doctor was a bad choice for the show and it should have been Paul McGann’s role if Eccleston didn’t take it. (John Hurt gives a great performance though.)

Fugitive Doctor is also a bad choice and doesn’t make sense unless it had been established that she was in between Troughton and Pertwee, in which case I would have thought it was awesome and inspired. (Jo Martin also gives a great performance though.)

Series 2’s stories are over hated and are just as hit and miss as all other RTD series, and Moffat’s era has WAY more misses in each season comparatively.

@BenGMan730 time lords are fine but by making the Doctor one they make them a member of the ruling class. A member of the elite. It remind me of a song called “Common People” to some extent. By making the Doctor a Time Lord they make the Doctor a member of the bourgeoise they set them apart from the rest of the universe. The prince can never truly be the pauper.

@Dreamleak I completely agree with all three of your points.

@Dreamleak I don't think any of those are hugely controversial, although I don't fully agree on any. Having John Hurt play a new version of the Doctor was not what anyone wanted when the 50th was being planned out, but I think Moffat has explained before that he didn't think McGann was quite right. On that I do agree with him. As for Jo Martin, I don't really understand why her falling between Troughton and Pertwee is acceptable but before Hartnell is not, although I know you're not the only one who feels that way. I prefer to think of Hartnell as the first Doctor proper, and probably still do, despite how much I love Jo. But I'm fine with the idea of there being more before all that started, and if anything I prefer that idea to the "season 6B" theory, which I've never been fond of at all.

I do think series 2 is worse than the other 3 RTD seasons, and I also think it has by far the highest number of rubbish episodes (4 compared to 2 in series 3 and 4, which are next highest). But I do feel that people's dislike is aimed at the wrong ones: e.g. Love and Monsters instead of New Earth. And that does give the impression that the whole season is off, when actually I think you're right to say it's pretty solid aside from some mis-steps that are perhaps more notable than usual.

@Dreamleak your opinions may be unpopular but I agree with all of them :D

@FH2104 I figured Hurt would be the most unpopular one, and it’s more of an agree to disagree. I’ve actually come to accept that the idea of another life before Hartnell, but I would still like to believe that the TARDIS is a police box because of the events of An Unearthly Child. The Fugitive having the police box design sets my brain off and “6B” is the only good conclusion I can have to rationalize.😂

For Series 2, I consider misses not to just be bad episodes but ones that I personally find boring, so series 2 does have about 4 weak stories, but I also give series 3 + 4 between 3-4 weaker episodes too.

@Dreamleak 100% agree that the police box being in Fugitive of the Judoon is an enormous dropped ball. The excitement of a Tardis is that it could be disguised as anything (A Battle of Wits), but I guess his Chibs wanted to make it absolutely explicit that it is definitely the Doctor's Tardis. And he thought that was the best way of doing it. Not sure I agree, although the moment she unearths it is phenomenal.

@FH2104 I’ll agree with you on that as well. Fugitive of the Judoon is probably my favorite Whittaker episode despite the TARDIS flaw, and the acting, music, and direction of that scene is just perfect.

@Anastasia Cousins They established the Doctor an alien in the very first story. Newman & Lambert intended to make the Doctor an alien. Even if the Time Lords won't debut until 1969.

I enjoyed Love and Monsters