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

Some of my favorite essays so far. And also, this book feels a lot more fun when I actually have work to complete due to reading for class! Very excited for the next few pages.

I'm just chipping away at this point between classes. I think my enjoyment had improved immensely since we got away from earthbound stuff and that's helped me get through some more boring points immensely.

Some very long winded stuff, but the worst part about reading with the essays interspersed is that the essays typically feel a lot more interesting than the rest of the text and it takes way too long to get to.

Class is starting but I'm gonna see if I can finish this before the end of like October. Here's hoping.

Yeah I'm enjoying this part of it more. It feels like the show they're writing about remembered what it was. And yeah, it's a good show.

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.