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In fact - thinking about it - I suspect that the modern series works much better in some ways without seeing the classic series first.
Take the Timelords, for instance - the Doctor's own people. In the modern series they have a kind of grand mythic quality - now that was hinted at in the original but frankly they were really rather drab and bureaucratic once you got to meet them. There's quite a lot about the new Doctor that doesn't really gel with the original. In fact there was quite a lot of the original that didn't gel with itself!
Nu-Who takes the idea and character model and gives it a different aspect - starting from a point with the Doctor as a Timelord (he wasn't originally - that didn't come about until a few series in), with a clear back story as the last of his kind, and a much more thought out story line.
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