Excellent Youtube video

Found by osewalrus. The song is "Space Girl," written by Ewan McColl and (I think) performed by The Imagined Village, though I may be wrong on that last one.

Wow, that was pointed.

Okay, well, since I've been invited to do what I like in my own journal (and since I don't know anyone else to whom the description given applies, I can be fairly confident that I was the intended target) a brief recapitulation.

I do not like nuWho. We have it on because Janet does not share my feelings, and I see it because I get fed up standing in the kitchen for forty-five minutes, but if it were up to me I would watch a gardening programme instead. It is not up to me.

I do not like the fact that the Doctor is no longer by any stretch of the imagination an alien, or an aristocrat, despite calling himself a Time Lord. I know aristocracy is bad, but so are many other things and I haven't noticed that we aren't allowed to see them on telly any more. I do not like the fact that he is now a completely different character; I liked the one we had. I do not like the fact that the storylines now revolve almost entirely around human (Western, European) courtship and mating practices--they are a part of life, true, and I'm old enough to be quite comfortable with them, but there are other programmes which deal with those areas, and Doctor Who used not to have to. I do not like the fact that the series now presents itself as a crash-bang-wallop action show, when that used to be just one element of a far more diverse palette. I do not like the cheap melodrama which alternates with the crash-bang-wallop, because it is mawkish and far too long-drawn-out. I do not like the sloppy plotting, the cynical reliance on fannish squee to paper over the credibility gap, and the fact that what the original production team got away with because they were doing their best is now excused in people who could do so much better if they cared as much as they say they do.

And so on and so forth. I could go on at length, but I will not. One final point, though: I DO NOT WANT EVERYONE TO BE AS MISERABLE AS I AM. I would love to be as happy about it as everyone else, and with everyone else's emotional well-being in mind I have stifled my urge to comment as much as I can, because I understand that nobody cares how I feel about this, and nobody should. But I cannot change how I feel, and since almost everybody else is so enraptured by the thing there is no cause to hope that it will change for the better at all.

And now I can enjoy a few weeks without it.

No comments, because there is nothing to say. But I do feel a little better now, thank you.