'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

Don't those definitions tend to be a load of old bollocks for small children, though? As I recall, a virus is missing all of them bar reproduction. And yes, 'reversing the polarity of the neutron flow', say, was gibberish. But - you'd only realise it was bollocks after a year or two of physics at big school. Whereas even in junior school, some kids will have grown crystals, and even the sink estate ones will have seen a fire. Besides which, old Who was hampered by a lack of time and money. We can forgive it some of the resulting flaws, but seeking - or even merely allowing - their emulation is taking classicism too far.