Twisted Spinster

I was reading this thread of Doctor Who fans cranking on about the excess Jeebus imagery in the new series (yeah, tell me about it — it almost makes me wish they’d go back to the hippiefreak Buddhist-lite garbage of the old series, at least of the Tom Baker and Peter Davison years) and my thoughts wandered, as they tend to do on a couple of glasses of merlot, to things Scottish, and for some reason things Eighties (update: I thought I’d just add that my thoughts on merlot or any other kind of wine don’t exclusively wander to the Scottish and the Eighties, that’s just what they did tonight), and how some people on my side of the pond are probably crying in their beers right now about the Reagan years, so I thought I’d give you a present of a video from the Best Band in the Universe, Simple Minds. (Better than U2! And Scottish — because if it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!) Here ya go:

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An update for Doctor Who nuts: this is an even better fan critique thread of the intrusive religious imagery in the current Doctor Who series. In fact, I’m beginning to wonder if that’s one reason David Tennant decided to leave the show. He probably will never say so, since admitting to any sort of Christianity-based qualms is a career killer in showbiz, but he was raised in a religious household (his father was a Presbyterian minister). So I wonder if the Messiah stuff ever made him uneasy. I can tell you that to me it looks like in stills of some of the scenes — for example, the ones where he’s all I-forgive-you to his archenemy the Master at the end of “Last of the Time Lords” — he looks like he can barely keep from laughing, and in the scenes they are discussing at the above thread in “Voyage of the Damned” the “WTF am I doing here this is stupid” expression on his face is almost worth sitting through the whole silly episode. (It’s not one of the series’ best. There is one scene where he gets to show real distress that breaks through the cheese, and a scene where he’s struggling against being restrained by two strapping members of the ship’s crew. We take what we can get.) Anyway, four more episodes and he’s well out of it, and maybe Moffett will restrain the holiness in 2010. Then again, he’s the one who came up with a secular version of Heaven for the Doctor’s girlfriends, so I don’t know. I just want a show that’s about aliens instead of humans and their neurotic preoccupations with having sex with the most exciting person in the universe. If I wanted a show about humans, I’d watch The Gilmore Girls or something like that.