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I may be wrong, but I seem to sense the phrase "it's just a TV show" lurking around the fringes of the conversation. :)

It exists. Current popular opinion says it isn't going away any time soon. (I don't necessarily agree, if only because I can all too well imagine some sharp-suited BBC exec standing up at the monthly meeting and saying "oh, by the way, I got rid of that irritating goose that was cluttering up that room downstairs with all the gold-coloured egg-shaped objects, aren't I great?"...and I still think, PR puffery to the contrary notwithstanding, RTD wants to be the one who kills it for the last time. But that's another issue.) Since it exists, my choices are (a) watch it, or (b) not watch it. Not watching it hasn't worked for me, for a number of reasons including but not limited to "oh gods, what have they done to it this week?", so I watch it. My choices then are (a) articulate my feelings or (b) keep them inside. I've been choosing what I thought was the healthier option, but if it's actually bothering someone then I should obviously try harder to keep my trap shut.

Unhealthy compulsion? Well. To push the Uncle Jim analogy from my post a little further: say I finally find Uncle Jim's actual grave, unmarked and unconsecrated of course. Say I go there every week to pay my respects, and every time I go there the impostor is there, dressed in Uncle Jim's clothes, dancing on the grave. I can't stop him, for whatever reason. Do I stop going to the grave, let him have that final victory? I don't think so.

Have I really only said "...because it was an episode of nuWho"? I thought I'd given specific and non-subjective reasons in at least some cases. I'll have to look back.

Although, to be honest, this problem I have with nuWho looks a lot more all-consuming than it actually is simply because I've had lots of comments to reply to. Apart from around episodes and LJ discussions, I hardly ever think about it at all. It hurts at the time, but once I've voided my spleen, I'm pretty much done. Unhealthy? Maybe.