It's probably just more modern?
Absolutely. (This is why I started with Seven. I felt like it'd be closest to TV as I know it. Kinda ease myself in, as it were.) Watching Four, there were a lot of good stories in there, and character moments I liked, and Baker undeniably has a genius for the role, but it was hard to shake the feeling that every single story was the stand-alone from the middle of the season that nobody would ever talk about again.

Thinking about it you might like early One which has definite character development and so on, while Two much as I love him is basically just stories that happen.
Thank you, this is useful consumer advice!

Three has some good stuff but some of his stories are just too long. He has Delgado!Master though. DELGADO!!!!!!
I've seen about a season and a half at the start of Three's run, and I did enjoy it, but you are not lying about the length of some of those serials, dear god. It's like 'I'm actually going to die here, watching people stuck in a cave.'

I'm looking forward to Delgado. The Master in general does precious little for me, but what I've seen of Delgado is undeniably fun.