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Some very interesting essays about doctor who with a focus on the female fans and the female companions. Some essays better than others of course but really gave me a lot of 'huh' or 'interesting' moments.

I'm a fairly recent Doctor Who convert. Early last year I became hooked thanks to wanting to watch the Neil Gaiman authored episode "The Doctor's Wife", so started with the Eleventh Doctor, and was so enamoured I went immediately back to the beginning of New Who and devoured the lot. Of course I have memories of watching Classic Who when I was a kid, with the Fourth Doctor, K9 and the Daleks being the only real things that I remember. And despite the best efforts of good friends trying to encour...

Chicks Unravel Time is a collection of essays, written by women, where each essay looks at a season of Doctor Who from a female perspective. Published in 2012, it covers the show up through Series 6. It's a enjoyable read with interesting ideas that's well worth it for fans of Doctor Who of course, but also sci-fi nerds in general and/or those interested in gender studies. Unlike my initial expectations, the book is not organized in a linear fashion (where we start with Season 1, go to Season 2,...

Very enjoyable!

I had a lot of fun reading this book, it brought back a lot of memories of my old Doctor Who watching experiences, gave me new perspectives to look back on them with and in some cases exposed me to seasons I had not seen so it sort of felt like it was filling in the gaps a bit.I was impressed with how honest the essays were, these were not written by rabid, rose colored glass wearing fangirls but by thoughtful fans who clearly put a lot of thought into what made one of their favorite shows work

The essays themselves were interesting and brought back many memories from a childhood spent watching a number of different Doctors and their companions. The book is let down, however, by the continuing misuse of the American term 'season' to refer to a British 'series'. A little thing, perhaps, but it was increasingly annoying and showed a lack of regard to the original source material that was unbecoming.The choice of 'season' to mean 'series' in the case of classic Who could have been forgive...

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2065071.html[return][return]A sister book to Chicks Dig Time Lords, this is a set of essays by women on each season/series of Doctor Who, old and new. One or two are sheer squee, but most are serious examinations of the show, usually (but not always) positive, often looking at gender issues, and one or two commentaries on race (also one chapter on "The Doctor's Balls" and another on "David Tennant's Bum"). I particularly enjoyed the chapters which were constructivel...

An interesting, fun read. My criticism is that I would have liked it if the articles were marked with which Doctor they were about. The author of each article tended to reference which season they were writing about but not being super intimate with the entire history of Doctor Who it was a bit of a guess to know which Doctor the author was talking about it until they specifically mentioned it. To make matters worse, the post reboot articles referred to Seasons 1 through 5 but were talking about...

Half the fun of this book is thinking "hey, I've met that author!" for half of the chapters. The other half is learning about Who stories I haven't seen yet and looking forward to them, and to see different angles of Who stories I may or may not have liked before. It was a little weird to read because the stories don't go in chronological order, but reading a chapter a night was really helpful with that. And you can read them in order if you want to, they're marked with the season they're about....

This was a welcome and enjoyable read after several more academic studies. The editors assembled a wide range of diverse and interesting (and geeky) women, and the essays included (one per season of the show) were uniformly well-written, intelligent, and insightful. I liked the variety, too: Some focused on seasonal arcs and themes, some a particular episode, others an individual character. It's not all universal praise, either. There's a healthy amount of critique (feminist and otherwise) mixed...

I liked this book, not as much as the first one I read "Chicks Dig Time Lords," but it was interesting. The reviews of seasons that I had seen made me want to see them again, but it was also fun to read about those that I wasn't familiar with (it's frustrating that a lot of the earlier shows no longer exist). I had always wondered how/why Susan, Ian and Barbara had left the Doctor and the TARDIS, and my question was answered.

I was surprised by how much fun I found this book to read, because I've seen very few episodes of Old Who and often had no prior knowledge of the characters being discussed. But it was precisely the various authors' interest in the particular aspects that they chose to explore that kindled my interest. I may never get around to watching those particular episodes, but I kept on wanting to read the next essay in this collection.

Fascinating collection of essays that I really, really enjoyed.ETA:I know that’s horribly short, but it was all I could manage on New Year’s Eve. I highly recommend this. It was perfect for me as end of year summer reading when I couldn’t manage a developing and focussed narrative. Instead, I could read an essay or two or even three, I could agree or disagree or learn something new and stop when I needed a break. Each essay was complete in itself and I wasn’t having to try to carry a story in my...

I came to Doctor Who solely through the revived series. Christopher Eccleston was my first doctor, and it’s true that I’ll never forget him. I was gutted to learn that he was leaving after only the first season and convinced that this new fellow, “David Tennant” (if that’s even his real name) could never live up to the Ninth Doctor’s brusque charisma. The rest is history, of course—the Tenth Doctor stole my heart, along with the hearts of many other Whovians, and then he left and the world would...

This essay collection is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. I really liked it. I enjoyed it more than the previous book. Each essay addresses a season of Doctor Who and the book covers the original Classic series (1963-1989), the TV Movie (1996) and the new series (2005-). The BBC Eighth Doctor books and Big Finish audios are also mentioned.The essays in this book cover a number of topics while also reviewing each season, and the essays are organized thematically, not ch...

Although I loved the sister volume to this anthology of essays, Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, which was also arranged thematically rather than chronologically, I found the structure of 'Chicks Unravel Time' incoherent. The introduction does point to the fact that each essay is accompanied by the season number, allowing the book to be read 'in order' if you prefer, but I found this useless due to the fact that these numbers did not appear in the cont...

Chicks Unravel Time is the sequel to Chicks Dig Time Lords, again all essays written by female fans of Doctor Who, but where the first book had a lot of personal "how I got into it" stories that at some point felt a little redundant, this one features analytical pieces on each season. And I eat that kind of stuff like it was manna from the sky. Unravel presents 34 essays, one for each season of both the classic and new series (up to Series 6), including the TV Movie and the Tennant specials. The...

Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who does just what it says on the cover: 33 women write about all 33 seasons of Doctor Who. On the surface, this seems like an interesting idea, but what it means is that it is nigh impossible for someone to truly appreciate the whole book unless they have seen all 33 seasons of Doctor Who. Having only seen New Who, I understood the pieces about those seasons the best, but the essays about the older seasons did pique my interest i...

A stronger, more substantive book than Chicks Dig Time Lords, with some piercing insights by the essayists. Compared with some of the heavy geekishness one sees in discussions about a fannish thing, these essays are quite refreshing -- erudite and thoughtful without being abstruse. With one essay for each season of Doctor Who, there will inevitably be essays that will be trickier to follow unless you've watched everything. I haven't, so I confess that my attention drifted from time to time.