Now is the perfect time to get back into it! You can just skip the parts you missed and continue with this new Doctor, the new showrunner won’t be referencing anything from the Matt Smith/Capaldi years.
If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again. I think I’ll marathon Eccleston’s series to get back into the spirit first.
Tennant gets better. I never particularly cared for him with Rose, but he’s great with Donna (Series 4).
I liked Rose, but she was a much better fit with Eccleston than Tennant. I couldn’t stand Donna at first, but I agree that her arc became the highlight of Tennant’s tenure in the end.
The show has been so terribly flawed, repeatedly, and yet so many people, including myself, try to like it. Strange phenomenon.
Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.