Opening Theme ... My Heresy

Does anyone here remember Space: 1999?

Okay. Remember Season 1's opening theme. It began with this huge rolling kettle drum riff, a massive orchestral opening and the title, sliding into position on the screen over Moonbase Alpha. The overall impression was going to be "This is a Big Show."

It didn't matter that they immediately went straight to this funky main theme. The Opening bars were big, loud and magnificent.

Then came Season 2's opening theme. Cue me staring at it through my fingers. It was phucquing awful. It felt more like any old action series that was going on at the time, only tarted up with lasers. And WTF was that thing with the dog, eagle, eyeball, woman thing? I did not know about Maya at that time, nor that she would become a member of the crew and the Token Alien and Token Bit of T&A that Freddie Freiberger demanded that they have in the show.

Well. Here's where I get all heretical, like, because guess how I felt when I saw the opening theme of the new Doctor Who for the very first time, last week?

"Doctor Who has a tradition of thrilling title sequences but the new version exceeds all previous excitement quotas!

It dramatically depicts the TARDIS spinning and spiralling through the time vortex amidst jagged shocks of lightening [sic]. The iconic imagery is accompanied by Murray Gold's stirring new version of the theme music to form a high-impact start to the best 45 minutes of the week!"

So how come I found myself peering at the screen through a Vulcan salute and feeling this intense blood flush burning of my face?

Phuqcue. Me.

Some Teletubby Humour ...

Cameron's "National Citizens"

Cameron plans on a "National Citizen" service scheme for kids. In an interview on the Beeb site, he gets all fuzzy and civic -minded about his scheme to give "shape" to the lives of kids, and to "save" them.

You know, all I can see is that "National Citizen" is too big and cumbersome. I can see them shortening the term, perhaps taking the first syllables of the names and pounding them together like modelling clay.

Let's play that old Sesame Street game, shall we?

"Nat"          "Ci"

"Nat"        "Ci"

"Nat"      "Ci"

"Nat"    "Ci"

"Nat"  "Ci"

"Natci."

Natcis.

Cameron wants to give kids' lives shape by turning them into Natcis.

Makes as much sense as anything that burbling glove puppet wants.