This may not be your intention, but I am now moved to re-read Interference. I was looking forward to you reaching this book, as I see it as a sort of milestone - not the best book in the range, but in some sense the conceptual high point, the moment where you could see something vibrant on the horizon. It didn't work out that way, and maybe it couldn't have - I kind of think the range needed to aggressively engage with and even repudiate this book instead of taking it as a source of continuity threads to string out over the next thirty books - but there is something I love about this stage.
Even though I only read it first years after release and wildly out of order.
Anyway, I think also this marks the end of your... Obligation?... To read the series. You can quit at any moment now and you'll have seen almost all there is to see. But keep going, maybe, please?
Thanks, I think. I've gotten through so much I almost feel obligated to go on. But dear lord there's almost another 50 books left. No wonder at the time I couldn't be bothered and concentrated my efforts on the audios.
The big problem I have is that each entry reinforces just how dead the show was during this period. Even up to the McGann movie there was a sort of sense of hope it would come back, but by the late-90s it was just so obvious it was all in the past and we'd never see something as bizarre as modern Doctor Who.
But yes, Interference is the first time in a long time I felt some life in the series. However at the same time it proves how right RTD was to dispense with "continuity" as he did when the impossible happened.
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Even though I only read it first years after release and wildly out of order.
Anyway, I think also this marks the end of your... Obligation?... To read the series. You can quit at any moment now and you'll have seen almost all there is to see. But keep going, maybe, please?
Congrats!
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The big problem I have is that each entry reinforces just how dead the show was during this period. Even up to the McGann movie there was a sort of sense of hope it would come back, but by the late-90s it was just so obvious it was all in the past and we'd never see something as bizarre as modern Doctor Who.
But yes, Interference is the first time in a long time I felt some life in the series. However at the same time it proves how right RTD was to dispense with "continuity" as he did when the impossible happened.
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