I suspect that the naysayers of the new series, those who as you put it, have failed to ‘move on’, are possibly over-represented on blogs and forums and therefore appear to be a larger proportion of the fandom demographic than is in fact the case. Long-term fans generally comfortable with the style and direction of the post 2005 series are probably much less likely to post as frequently or as vociferously about their views as those who object to changes in the series.

It is tempting to view the long gap prior to the series return as the catalyst for this lack of acceptance of change: over that time the old series has become bundled as a fixed, knowable entity. Of course this has its own inherent contradictions and stylistic diversity, but it was crucially presented as a relatively gradual evolution of direction year on year. For some fans the new series is perhaps a bit too much like culture shock because the through-line between old and new is regarded as broken.

The latest DWM’s results from the ‘Mighty 200′ survey is perhaps a truer indication of the divide between ‘old’ and ‘new’ fandom. Broken down into three voter age brackets, the under 18s (14% of voters) predictably award high scores to Russell T. Davies’ big-hitting series finales of each of the last four years, but the remaining six places go to classic series stories including, most surprisingly, ‘The War Games’ and ‘The Power of the Daleks’, demonstrating that younger fans are by no means all regarding ‘Rose’ as the point at which it all began. At ther other end of the age spectrum, the oldies in the 36+ group (49% of voters) have an almost completely different line-up of stories in their top ten but which still includes four new series stories (though, perhaps significantly, none of Russell T Davies’ episodes).