stunt_muppet

Exactly. That's how his bias works - he might like something that's similar (or, in this situation, more excessive) but if he's decided he's not going to like something, he won't.
Mind you, I think he's only seen the very early seasons of the old series of TP, which were visually more subdued and closer to the Third Doctor era (I think that's the time those early seasons were made, now that I think about it), and the new series (with that girl from Pirates of the Caribbean), which was made a few years after the cancellation of Old Who.