Hoh, boy. Yeah, I was a big fan.
I've watched pretty much every episode of the series and I've read a lot of the books; if it's an obscure piece of lore, chances are I know about it.
In my humble opinion as a major whophile, Classic Who was better for the most part. Eccleston was mostly good and so was Tennant in his first half, but the rest of the new series is pretty much wank as far as I'm concerned.
That isn't to say I dislike any of the new Doctors (with the exception of David "J. H. Christ" Tennant) but the episodes really are total shit. Capaldi was such a perfect opportunity to go back to the kind of hard sci-fi, coherent plot and just fun that made the old series so enjoyable, but instead, they decided to just go on again with their overarching plots and "clever" stories instead of intelligent ones.
Not only that, but it was somehow worse than Matt Smith's Doctor's stories, bless him. The only really good episode I can think of was Heaven Sent and that's only because Capaldi was the only fucker in it.
That's not to say that the old Doctors didn't have their own share of terrible plots; hell, that's a summation of Trial of the Timelord's entire arc. But the old ones weren't made with this expectation of greatness, this notion that the Doctor is the Space Messiah and that everything he confronts has to be "THE MOST X IN THE UNIVERSE".
Except for Seven, that is. And Eight.
You know what, never mind; the only thing worth your time is the extended universe stuff. I'd advise starting with Eight's audios or the Virgin New Adventure books.