He's saying a bunch of rubbish about Pat, Jon, Tom, Peter and Paul of the Classic Doctors, at the very least. They were all very affectionate (Seven/Ace were also affectionate, but definitely platonic--Sylvester had some acting weaknesses like anger, but was definitely nicer than Colin's performance started), nice or even fanciable Doctors. "Weird" does NOT mean unfanciable to women, as some men like him are convinced of.
It's why I brought up Tom Baker having sex with fangirl groupies who asked him to wear the scarf. There are so many older male fans who are convinced he's the ultimate example of the weirdo male Doctor that no women fancy, when that's painfully not the case. Patrick Troughton had quite the scandalous love life by having a whole other secret family (Frazer even went with him to drop off money at his second family's house).
Jon Pertwee was where the need for a hunky male companion was eliminated, because he was the action hero. You no longer needed Ian Chesterton, Steven Taylor, Ben Jackson, Jamie McCrimmon and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (who was introduced in the Troughton era!) to be these action-oriented attractive men there precisely to get women watching. Don't believe me? Seriously, it's written right there in the casting call for Ian Chesterton in 1963 for him to be a leading male type to get women to watch. William Russell was coming off of playing Sir Lancelot. Frazer Hines is quite open about the fact that his role in the show was to get girls to watch (he definitely reveled in the female attention).
While William Hartnell was the crotchety, old grandfather wizard type, William Russell was doing all the heroic swashbuckling, with Ian going from fighting Aztec warriors to spending time as a gladiator. Ian was essentially the template that the Doctor later became and he was the one who taught the Doctor a more heroic morality, starting with when Ian stopped the Doctor from killing a caveman with a rock. Ian was also the one arguing with the Thals that they couldn't be pacifists waiting for the Daleks to kill them all and they had to fight back. Ian and Barbara also had to deal with a Doctor who tricked them into going to Skaro and was incredibly distrusting towards humans initially (bordering on full-blown xenophobia, actually). However, after Ian left and despite being quickly replaced by Peter Purves as Steven Taylor, you do see Hartnell starting to take on a more heroic, swashbuckling role, as you do start to see him swordfighting and such. The Doctor we know today was starting to be born already, but still had a few seismic changes left to go.
Now, Patrick Troughton, as you can see in all the fanvids, was actually very spry, even if he was playing an impish Charlie Chaplin-esque figure. His performance was extremely physical, as you can see in those famous scenes of him jumping and running through mirror rooms and hopping as he avoided explosions. He was actually a former leading man type and was the very first leading man Robin Hood on British television ever. And in comparison to Bill looking decades older than he was and being in extremely fragile health already (arteriosclerosis in the brain was really doing a number on him, so it wasn't just wearing a white wig), even though he was only 55-58, Pat was a very sprightly 46-49 whom the young teen or 20-something companions weren't even outrunning. When you see Pat with his hair brushed back instead of done like a Beatles mop, he was not a bad-looking man, despite being a character actor. Still, like with Ian/Barbara and Ben/Polly, it was Jamie/Victoria who were the unrequited romantic drama storyline there to get the girls watching.
The Doctor is more like a best friend/uncle/partner-in-crime figure to Jamie, in particular. He's definitely not a grandfather who keeps trying to replace his granddaughter (Susan to Vicki) anymore. Actually, I'd say it's Ben and Polly where the Doctor really finds his first companions who feel nothing like replacements for his granddaughter and Ian/Barbara clones. They're way too hip for that and William Hartnell looks hilariously out of place in the Swinging Sixties club that he first meets Ben and Polly in. Enter Pat with a Beatles haircut, who wouldn't look out of place at all. Then when Jamie enters the picture the next story, they're an inseparable Odd Couple buddy comedy for the next three years. There are fatherly moments like the Doctor trying to comfort a distressed Jamie about Victoria leaving by saying he was fond of her, too, but boy, does it turn into more of a best-friend dynamic. Slash 'shippers rejoice (I'm not one, but yeah... they invaded this corner of the fandom).
Then came Jon Pertwee. The Doctor was suddenly this karate-chopping, cape-wearing, bouffant dandy James Bond figure with a Navy tattoo, complete with Pertwee's love of driving every kind of vehicle imaginable (there's a whole episode that is nothing but him driving, flying and motoring--Whomobile, gyrocopter, motorboat, ATV, etc...). While Jon was a bit older than Pat (a year older, but playing the role for five seasons after) at 50-54, he was the first Doctor to really treat the role as a leading man who can do all of his own fighting and at times even got very close to seeming like a romantic leading man in his relationship with Jo. Jo's line in The Green Death followed some scenes with the Doctor in The Curse of Peladon and also later in The Green Death where the Doctor actually seems to be playing a game of oneupmanship with male rivals for his companion's affections. Katy Manning for sure has talked about how that line reads as a confession of non-platonic feelings for the Doctor now, given it was part of the idea behind the Big Finish story The Other Woman.
Tom Baker very much continued what Jon Pertwee brought for the role. While he might seem really, really odd, he was most certainly not a female audience repellent. His companion relationships (same as Pertwee's) were actually highly 'shippable, especially Sarah Jane and Romana. The Doctor's relationship with Leela was based on Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, and I shouldn't have to tell you that that's a romantic movie, even if it's less so with that one by comparison to how often the Doctor carried and put his arms around Sarah. Once again, it's this ultra affectionate performance where you have a Doctor who is often carrying, hugging and acting very protective around a young female companion who he plays clear favorites with. See "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!" for who was third wheel in that TARDIS team. It's the same with Pertwee towards Jo with those very intrinsically male, possessive interactions towards male rivals like King Peladon and Cliff Jones. Female viewers spot it from a mile away. Tom Baker wasn't even acting anymore when he reacted to the glamorous Mary Tamm and the Honourable Sarah "Lalla" Ward (who is literal British nobility). There was a behind-the-scenes Christmas video with John Leeson doing drunk Christmas carols in his K-9 voice where Tom Baker is asked what he wants for Christmas and he gives a very suggestive leer at Mary Tamm. The whole Doctor/Romana dynamic was the Doctor completely overwhelmed by Romana being better at being a Time Lord/Lady than him, but also him teaching her how to be more worldly, heroic and human with street smarts beyond the stodgy academics of Gallifrey. The idea that the Doctor seemed to be having something more than platonic going on with Romana is far from a new interpretation and it wasn't helped by the fact that Tom Baker married Lalla Ward, even doing in-character computer commercials with the computer flashing "Marry the girl, Doctor" on the screen.
Contrary to what the fanboy culture that took over the fandom in the '80s-'90s that agreed with the very nonsense that killed the show dead in the '80s. It was a time that included much less-affectionate relationships with multiple mouthy companions (well, just Tegan--silent Nyssa couldn't even get in a word edgewise, which is why it's a joy when it's briefly just Davison with Nyssa between Tegan getting left at Heathrow until Amsterdam) who just absolutely swamped a less-strong Doctor like Peter Davison (not to mention the Doctor being openly irritated with Adric and Turlough actually starting his time in the TARDIS as an attempted murderer), the loss of the iconic Pertwee/Baker format of having just one young girl in the TARDIS who seems to be a bit in love with the Doctor (replaced instead by having Colin Baker literally try to strangle Peri--who went from saying how Peter Davison was sweet, nice and attractive in comparison to the "tasteless", abrasive Doctor who didn't care what his companions thought of him--this was literally the worst possible thing to copy when Peter Capaldi started off the same way!) and dramatic narratives and actual character growth amongst Doctors and companions alike that absolutely did exist in the '60s-'70s! I think a lot of fanboys would be shocked if they really compared the character development in the '60s-'70s episodes (note that those American fans were largely watching a lot of Tom Baker reruns on PBS that were a decade old when JNT became obsessed with the American convention circuit) to what is there in the '80s.
I will say that Colin Baker's absolute best moments in his ill-received era are when he suddenly softens up incredibly a lot with Jamie coming back, because otherwise the Two/Jamie vs. Six/Peri comparison would be utterly awful with the difference in how Jamie is treated in comparison to Peri. Colin corrects this a bit by actually having a really good dynamic with Jamie (yeah, it seems all the Doctors love Jamie). Although it was way too late, Colin did have a much-needed deep reaction to when he thought Peri was brutally murdered. "You killed Peri." There have been discussions that things might've been different and the relationship between the Sixth Doctor and Peri would've been better had Jamie remained to soften things. Jamie (always a flirt) even kissed Peri on the cheek at the end of The Two Doctors. As it stands now, because of Patrick Troughton being long dead, Colin Baker has essentially inherited a lot of his companions, including Jamie, Zoe and even Victoria. They've all been used to give him that much-needed softer side and their stories with him get frickin' tragic, given both Jamie and Zoe died while with the Sixth Doctor. Add to that the fact that Peri was retconned from being murdered, as well, only to have a fate possibly worse than death--marriage to Brian Blessed as King Yrcanos. Yikes.
Unfortunately, you'll have to listen to missing episode reconstructions to hear some of the most emotional content from the '60s like in The Evil of the Daleks when Jamie calls the Doctor "callous" while he's being manipulated into rescuing Victoria and the Doctor is using Jamie to produce the "human factor" to create human-Dalek hybrids or when Jamie does NOT take Victoria leaving well at all. In fact, the entire end of Fury from the Deep, pt. 6 should put all thoughts that Classic Who didn't have "girly" emotions running amok all over it to rest.
This type of dramatic exit wouldn't be out of place in NuWho! And the emotions being non-platonic are subtle as a brick.
These '80s-'90s-era JNT fanboys were absolutely appalled with RTD's appeal to genre savvy female fans who grew up on the wave of serialized drama in '90s genre shows (these are NOT girls who hate sci-fi/fantasy, contrary to what Burun thinks!). By the JNT and New Adventures years, the fanbase was full of incels who thought Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy were the perfect representation of themselves and reveled in how neither one of them were appealing to those icky fangirls. They were also appalled when Paul McGann kissed Grace Holloway in the TV Movie for the same reason they were appalled by Rose Tyler (as if Jo Grant hadn't already hinted as such that she had feelings for the Doctor all the way back in 1973).
The New Adventures books, specifically the infamous Lungbarrow, went out of their way to desexualize Time Lords (despite there being Time Ladies) into a completely asexual species that Looms itself fully-grown from machines.
JNT, of course, had gone out of his way to rewrite Doctor Who history to even eliminate that the Doctor was ever a grandfather in the first place. JNT was highly sensitive about how affectionate young, traditionally-handsome leading man Peter Davison (second-youngest Doctor ever after Matt Smith) could be with female companions (no hugging Tegan and Nyssa, but could hug Adric, despite the Doctor having a notably horrible relationship with Adric until he sacrificed himself) and indeed barred Carole Ann Ford from interacting with any Doctor but Richard Hurndall. Just calling the faux-First Doctor "Grandfather" was a compromise with JNT and Peter Davison went against the script to try to put in a Fifth Doctor/Susan moment (it looks more like a creepy leer). For JNT, it was because the Doctor being a heterosexual breeder with biological family was alienating to the gay audience and so wanted to pretend that the Doctor was asexual (to the point of casting less-fanciable Doctors next--or possibly ones that were more in his league--his partner Gary Downie was an absolute lecherous creep to fans at those American conventions and was accused of sexual assault!) in a way he absolutely was NOT in the '60s-'70s. Colin Baker's performance almost feels reactionary against Peter Davison's leading man looks, to the point where Peri actually comments on this change very negatively (exactly like how Clara had to be reassured by Matt Smith to accept Peter Capaldi going out of his way to be a total prick in series 8). RTD clearly didn't agree with JNT on the Doctor being asexual or that being more appealing to the gay audience!
The show ate itself by kicking out a huge part of the audience that used to watch and was chased out. RTD just went backwards in time to pick up the same audience the show used to be written for before. And news to Burun, women were 'shipping Mulder/Scully (hell, they were also a significant part of the original Star Trek's audience with most of them making up Spock's very female fanbase) in the '90s well before Buffy/Angel made it to the screen. Mulder/Scully, F.Y.I., were the couple that the terms "'ship" and "'shipping" were invented for, despite it taking The X-Files an aggravating seven seasons to get them together romantically (damn you, cockblocker bee!). Isaac Asimov himself wrote a whole essay on the fact that women were more into Spock than Kirk (whose fanbase was overwhelmingly male, despite seeming on paper like he should be the male hero attracting the ladies) and the complete bafflement of male viewers about why all these fangirls preferred Spock. Given that the Doctor isn't wildly different in archetype from Spock at times, it should be less of a surprise that even Classic Doctors get these same fangirls who also like Spock.
Long gone was the BBC internal paperwork that listed how each and every role was being written and cast to appeal to every possible demographic, including the boys (and dads) who wanted to see Zoe's butt in a glittery catsuit perched atop the TARDIS console and famously Peter Davison's entire regeneration sequence (it's a good one--the Fifth Doctor heroically sacrifices himself for Peri) getting overshadowed by Peri's cleavage (definitely got attention for that gratuitous bikini cleavage shot, too, though Turlough gets similar attention amongst gays and gals for stripping down to a Speedo in the same scene), and the girls who got to swoon over the likes of Ian and Jamie, who were written with them to watch precisely in mind. As much as female audiences like female identification figures, people like Burun seem to be in complete denial that the males in the Classic show were ever written for females in mind, including increasingly so the Doctor himself. Yet, a lot of the same gate-keeping male fans in the Doctor Who fanbase will openly go on and on about who the hottest female companions were.
Males who think throwing "feisty", "strong" females on the screen will cover the female audience (seems to me it was a lot of males and lesbians reacting to Jodie Whittaker being the hottest Doctor ever more than the straight females were--LOL), despite females arguably being the most resistant to Jodie Whittaker's casting (serious blunder by Chibnall to not realize that that was definitely not what the female audience wanted after years of wishing to be taken away from their lives by the Doctor, not unlike Peter Pan and Wendy), really ought to ask more females about what they like to see on screen. They're a lot like those baffled fanboys who don't understand why fangirls prefer Spock to Kirk or think that the Classic Doctors were all completely repulsive to female audiences, and so think that the massively positive, swooning reaction to David Tennant (who is in fact a very *unconventional* leading man, just like the rest with the exceptions of Peter Davison and Paul McGann--you're not going to see those two playing roles like Barty Crouch, Jr. and Kilgrave any time soon!) means that he was completely unsuitable for the part.
