Jay Emmerich’s Reviews > About Time: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who, #3: 1970-1974, Seasons 7 to 11 > Status Update

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.