an icepick through the keyhole

And again, there you go: you assume I find your objections silly when it's simply not true. I don't find it silly. I just find it hard to understand.

And the look and the sound isn't the only thing, as you well realize from your own remarks. You say: "The character had specific attributes that have not been carried over, the lack of which make him, to me, not the Doctor." But that just isn't the way he looks, or the TARDIS looks, which is interchangeable, and has always been. It's not about looks and sounds. It's about character.

I mean, if your objection is that he's not heroic, that's all right. If your objection is to the hanky panky in the TARDIS, that's all right, too. If it's about plot holes and inconsistencies, well, I'd just simply point out the gaping holes in lots of stories in the classic series, but that's also all right. We're just differing on the points of view, because to me he's still the essentially eccentric, heroic hero figure who rights wrongs and flies through time and space. But to keep on about posh accents, or how the TARDIS looks (which has also changed over the years) is to me missing the point.

And to say that these people don't care about the show or the series or its heritage is horribly unfair, because they do.

ETA: And another area that I probably look askance at is the idea that there is this huge divide between the classic and new series. Your charge of unfunny silliness was leveled at Graham Williams, for example. The unvarying ages and genders was a characteristic of the sole young, pretty companion since, oh, Jo Grant, really, all the way up to Adric. To me, it's just another producer's tenure on the exact same series.