This week on Mark Watches:
Episode Reviews
Monday: Battlestar Galactica - Revelations (series 4.0 finale)
Tuesday: Battlestar Galactica - Sometimes A Great Notion (series 4.5 opener)
Wednesday: Battlestar Galactica - The Face of The Enemy (webisodes)
Thursday: Battlestar Galactica - A Disquiet Follows My Soul (extended version)
Friday: Battlestar Galactica - The Oath
Saturday: Fringe - Wallflower
Liveblog
Friday: Fringe - Wallflower
Meanwhile over on Reads, Mark finishes The Hobbit.
Also, for those of you with access to BBC, Children in Need is on this Friday which means some new Doctor Who! It's a live show so we don't have an exact time but at some stage between 8.00 and 8.30 CiN will be showing an exclusive preview of the Christmas Special. For everyone else, check out BBC's official youtube channel or other ~completely legal means~ after it airs. Odds are some Doctor Who alumni will probably be taking part in CiN so keep an eye out for those as well.
EDIT
It looks like we're going to be getting a new mini-episode for Children in Need as well!
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Geeky Weekly Funtimez
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Geeky Weekly Funtimez
2011-11-12T17:36:00-05:00
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Hypatia_ 99p · 713 weeks ago
hassibah 113p · 713 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 713 weeks ago
flipping channels, caught ROTK just in time for "you bow to no one"
always gets me :'(
Dragon Elexus 124p · 713 weeks ago
...may the odds be ever in your favour!
(But seriously, though, I think it looks cool! I haven't really been able to form a more coherent opinion than that, though.)
leighzzz31 89p · 713 weeks ago
I cannot begin to describe the amount of DO NOT WANT I experienced reading this.
Dragon Elexus 124p · 713 weeks ago
*stares*
Okay, sorry for the double post...but well, I've got more movie news. Take a guess at which movie I could be thinking of. Any ideas? No?
Doctor Who.
And no, not a Doctor Who done by Steven Moffat or RTD. Apparently, David Yates, director of the...last four, I believe, Harry Potter films says that he's going to direct a DW movie, seperate from the current canon. I'm not sure if he means only post-Eight canon, or all of it, but...
He announced it to the press today, and he sounded fairly confident, saying they're currently looking for writers. But DW Magazine said these are rumours. So- not completely sure what that's about.
This is what Yates had to say:
The notion of the time-travelling Time Lord is such a strong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time,
“We want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too,” he explained.
psycicflower 114p · 713 weeks ago
According to Variety there's going to be a Doctor Who movie directed by David Yates.
"We're looking at writers now. We're going to spend two to three years to get it right," he said. "It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena." ...
Yates made clear that his movie adaptation would not follow on from the current TV series, but would take a completely fresh approach to the material. "Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch," he said.
Tauriel_ 109p · 713 weeks ago
From edwardrussel on twitter: "Off Twitter for a few hours and the Doctor Who world explodes. There's always talk of a movie. Perhaps? Maybe one day. But not right now!"
And from DWMTweets: "To those hearing Doctor Who movie rumours, it's just the same rumours which have been going round for years. Nothing's currently happening!"
Alexander_G 75p · 713 weeks ago
[youtube jFbHYUqeQjA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbHYUqeQjA&feature=related youtube]
Oh dear...
hpfish13 115p · 713 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 713 weeks ago
Also, banner design scheme spoiler (lol): V'z qbvat n guvat jvgu gur pbybef fb gung gur qbzvanag pbybe va rnpu bar zngpurf gur pbybe bs gur QIQ pnfrf sbe gur Rkgraqrq Rqvgvbaf. Orpnhfr V'z n tvnag qbex.
Tauriel_ 109p · 712 weeks ago
ANDY SERKIS SAYS THERE WILL BE A HOBBIT TRAILER AROUND CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D <3 <3 <3
There is no GIF for what I'm feeling right now. :D
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago
In which nothing is beautiful and everything not only continues to hurt but gets worse.
affableevil 107p · 712 weeks ago
Pseudonymph · 712 weeks ago
Openattheclose 99p · 712 weeks ago
I just love it when he trolls.
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago
Oh Gaeta
Dragon Elexus 124p · 712 weeks ago
Number 1:
LEAKED AVATAR COMIC PAGGEEESSS YAY!
I won't give anything too spoilery away, but the first one seems to start off right from the finale kiss...and oh, god, you guys don't know how happy I am to see those characters again. Its so amazing!
http://www.themarysue.com/leaked-avatar-comic-pag...
Also: New brave trailer, showing cool Scottish girl kicking ass.
echinodermata 118p · 712 weeks ago
I am almost entirely unspoiled about the special (don't know the premise or anything like that) so I have no damn clue what the context is.
Tauriel_ 109p · 712 weeks ago
Apart from the 13 episodes proper, the boxset includes:
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol Confidential (full episode)
- 2 x Comic Relief sketches Space and Time
- 5 x EXCLUSIVE Night and The Doctor mini~episodes (ranging from 2-5 mins each) written by Steven Moffat: Bad Night, Good Night, First Night, Last Night and Up All Night.
Coming out next week. WANT. <3
nanceoir 111p · 712 weeks ago
1.) Did anyone see Elijah Wood on The Colbert Report the other night? I know some folks have been anticipating sharing with Mark all the "Colbert geeks out about LotR" moments from the show, and this should definitely be part of that. It was a really fun interview, too. (Colbert, though, I love you: "More Gandalfy," indeed.)
2.) This is a total crack idea, I admit, but rewatching the Elijah Wood interview gave me a flashback to... god, I don't even remember which extended thing it was in, but... Tig. I kind of want to play Tig with Mark during LotR -- or do something that would have the same effect as Tig.
(Yes, I know I'm basically saying, "Let's troll Mark while he reads LotR!" but the thought still amuses me, so I decided to put it out there.)
(Also, please excuse this non sequitor for a bit of shameless advertising. Y'all remember the TARDIS I knit? Well, I can knit lots of other things, and if a person paid me, I would knit something for them at reasonable rates. I'm still trying to work out how I could/should approach this "commission me to knit" thing, but for now, if you're interested, this journal post should cover it, if barely.)
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago
Since there's a good chance a lot of Doctor Who alumni or even just people from other shows will be taking part, here's a general thread. I'll try to put up relevant youtube videos since the BBC tends to be good about putting them up unregioned for their charity shows.
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago
psycicflower 114p · 712 weeks ago