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TV is made in a very different style to film but there's a lot of nice consistencies that feel familiar to me. I'm gonna finish this book by the end of the year if it kills me.

Very fitting that a book with insects all over the cover as being swarmed with insects while I read outside. But this is actually getting to some weird and higher concept stuff that I love reading about. So I'm kinda on board again.

A lengthy bit here about the UK sensibilities around comics, but there's also a bit here that makes something curious for more. It's so clearly locked at a point in the shows timeline that I'd be very curious to see what the show since that point would have to say. There's been lore touches here and there that I'm sure the writers of this could have a field day with.

Justice for Pigbin Josh. Realized there was something I pointed out a few days ago that actually wasn't right. There's not a missing essay, they just changed the name and made it bigger.

Chugging along. Very curious to see what the next section is like. There's a bit here that just feels like an arguement started by a line in the first version that then people had problems with when it was published and the authors wanted to just be like "umm actually" which isn't the most enjoyable read...

Brainwashing stuff is what I was looking forward to reading about. 2 volumes of this in a row that have connections to stuff I learned in class!

Talking about pop art and also breaking down hypnotism to an actual scientific level... you never know what to expect from this kind of book

Yeah it's a lot of dense text and it doesn't make the process of reading super enjoyable. Most fascinating thing is that it feels like there was something removed from the first edition to the second edition that just disappeared somewhere in between.

Talking about how repetitive this season is, is in fact, repetitive. But i do like how this version mentions what songs were popular in the charts at this time. It's a nice like connection another part of the history.

Talking about the goo. This isn't my era of Doctor Who or really the most enjoyable read for me right now, but I'm riding it out. There's a good essay in this chunk about how bizarre the show sounded at the time and it was fascinating to read about.

Interesting to read about what the UK was trying to do in the space race, as it's not something widely discussed. We're chugging away with a bunch of information here.

There's a lot of digressions and information. I know that this is no longer being written by the same group (its only half of the two, one of them walked away I guess) and I'm not sure if it's because of that that I'm not enjoying it as much, or because the era of the show is so different or for some other reason. It's more of the same for sure. And that's not bad.

Sometimes, points are made in this book series that really makes me sit and go "huh. I guess that's right." And it just makes me clock why I like some parts of this series more than others. It's all good, but sometimes sensibilities cause aliens to be more like monsters than other cultures, for example. I just like how it spells it out.

It's nice to be taken back to a point where people liked this show and it didn't feel like a dirty word. I'm sure I'm not gonna get a lot of enjoyment over the stuff discussed for season 7, but after that I'm really gonna dig in for sure.

There's a lot more historical ties to some of these stories than I'd have thought originally. The hollow earth conspiracy theory is at the root of some of it which is a complete surprise to me. Love it though.

UNIT dating controversy essay not really shocking... but yeah. Good stuff. Not the most exciting but I'm chipping away.

I don't think this is gonna be a slog to read, but the amount of mundanity to this era doesn't get me super excited. The essays in the previous books have been very interesting, and so far this one is "how did the doctor get his license?" But I'll keep reading.

Fascinating bit here about paranoia and conspiracy playing a part in the narrative in ways I couldn't clock because my brain always tried to rationalize that it was a creature feature. Good stuff.

This book is so interesting at points. At other points it's just bland reciting of facts with s lot of conjecture. I read some of the latter this time, none of the former.

I've made enough progress with Dune that i don't mind trickling some of this in as well. So excited to dig in as I'm watching these episodes. Don't know why it says it only had 179 pages on here. The copy i have has over 500.