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

A large essay about linguistics and how silly alien names can be before it gets unserious. It also talked about how various creative have been documented of coming up with their names (ie: Tolkien, Lucas and LeGuin) and it's all very cool to read about. I've said it before but when we get to weirder things in the show, this series is more interesting.

Surprised to see a reference to Doogal here... but okay. More good stuff with some overly complex essays about how time travel and time should work in this universe (which i can't care to really absorb because there's never going to be rules for this).

Another bit that stood out to me: there's a fairly dismissive comment to a event that a lot of people in fandom seem to think is a good scene, but the writer seems to dislike. If the wording had said "I don't like it" instead of "some don't like it" I probably wouldn't bat an eye at it. But other than that I'm still enjoying the book.

Good essays!! Getting back into the weirder side of the show makes the essays more interesting. I'm here for it. Also nice to get back to the Daleks. Yippee yippee.

This section made a bit of the tone click for me. It feels like the writer finds this era of the show being written for a younger demographic which he liked as a kid, but at the same time, "grew up" and doesn't think it's hot shit anymore and doesn't like that everybody doesn't agree. Maybe this will be consistent as I go through... only time will tell.

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...