This week on Mark Watches:
Episode Reviews
Monday: Battlestar Galactica - Blood on the Scales
Tuesday: Battlestar Galactica - No Exit
Wednesday: Battlestar Galactica - Deadlock
Thursday: Battlestar Galactica - Someone to Watch Over Me
Friday: Battlestar Galactica - Islanded in a Stream of Stones
Liveblog
Saturday: Battlestar Galactica - Daybreak (series finale)
Meanwhile over on Reads, Mark starts his ~mystery book~
Saturday, November 19, 2011
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NB2000 115p · 707 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 707 weeks ago
Tauriel_ 109p · 707 weeks ago
The Lord of the Rings (1944) - starring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo and Marlene Dietrich as Galadriel :D
Medli 141p · 706 weeks ago
"1) I haven't 100% decided what comes after LotR, but Sandman seems like a damn good choice.
2) Still not sure, to be honest. oh god i want to watch Cowboy Bebop NOW."
omg want Sandman now cannot wait SO EXCITE
omg cannot wait for Bebop either SO EXCITE
Tauriel_ 109p · 706 weeks ago
First behind the scenes video of Season 2 of Game of Thrones!
Stannis! Melisandre! Margaery! Davos! Damphair! Aaaaaaaahhh!!! *flails* SO EXCITED!!! :D :D :D <3 <3 <3
Tauriel_ 109p · 706 weeks ago
OMG YES PLEASE!!! <3 <3 <3 :D :D :D
__Jen__ 99p · 706 weeks ago
http://marriedinspace.tumblr.com/post/13119167519...
__Jen__ 99p · 706 weeks ago
leighzzz31 89p · 706 weeks ago
Also, what the fuck does he mean "one of THOSE sites"?
echinodermata 118p · 706 weeks ago
And I'm too lazy to jump in on the large thread, but I did read it and I am sad at the lack of LotR too. I've been listening to the soundtracks, and they're so great and I just really really want to get started.
sophiesensation 139p · 706 weeks ago
But then again I also think Mark should give us more of a heads-up on the schedule beforehand, so people have time to find the damn book or DVD or whatever. I know he wants it to be a surprise, but it's still a surprise if you announce it a bit earlier, it just gives people time to prepare. I don't even know if he's read any of the many comments we've been leaving about this at Mark Reads, which is another reason an Ask Mark place would be good. One that he actually checks regularly and reads all of the messages for.
cait0716 125p · 706 weeks ago
I know it's his site and he can do whatever the hell he wants. But this is really, really annoying.
I'm also going to find it really hard to talk about Looking for Alaska without constantly comparing it to A Separate Peace, which is far better in my opinion. So maybe i just won't comment in silent protest.
Does anyone know what he's actually supposed to start FotR?
If he does the same thing to Buffy I'm really gonna be upset.
sophiesensation 139p · 706 weeks ago
ravenclaw42 84p · 706 weeks ago
I love the Greens' philanthropic tendencies, their attitudes and their philosophies, and I consider myself a nerdfighter, but I've tried to read LfA and Paper Towns and couldn't finish either. John Green has a thing for Manic Pixie Dream Girls, which I just don't care for, deconstructed or otherwise. I share zero traits in common with the standard MPDG, and the last thing I'm interested in reading are a bunch of books from male POVs about how much they're in love with an MPDG. It makes me feel erased, or like my experience of teenagehood wasn't self-destructive enough to be interesting or attractive, because only self-destructive, impulsive people are "full of life". I mean, I'm pretty sure John Green wouldn't actually think that, but still, ugh. I would rather read the sausagefest that is LotR, where I feel comfortably represented in characters like Sam and Faramir, than read about any more boys in love Bottle Fairies or Manic Pixies. (Sorry, TV Tropes has, indeed, ruined my vocabulary.)
Anyway. Brief rant over. I just didn't want to go get my rant on in the main site where there are a fair number of people prepared to enjoy LfA, or at least give it a fair shot, including Mark. Plus the main reason I feel rant-y is disappointment, but I don't want to go acting like Mark owes me anything in his own public space. :/ But NOOOOO, people over there who keep saying he should do more one-offs between LotR volumes, NO STOP SAYING THAT, DON'T LISTEN TO THEM MARK, FFS I'M PRETTY SURE ASOIAF BEAT LOTR'S ENTIRE PAGE COUNT BY HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK 2, IT'S NOT THAT BLOODY LONG. T_T
Medli 141p · 706 weeks ago
I'm not talking about something like The Host where he goes in expecting to torture himself, btw - stuff that people thought he'd enjoy but he doesn't end up liking. I don't think that's really happened yet.
Dragon Elexus 124p · 706 weeks ago
Thus: In honour of an (early) 48th Year Aniiversiary, online geek celebrity Linkara tries to make sense of Doctor Who's rather wibbly form of time travel.
http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/
(I wanted to imbed it, but that did not work. I iz sorry)
affableevil 107p · 706 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 706 weeks ago
what
what just happened
echinodermata 118p · 706 weeks ago
Dragon Elexus 124p · 706 weeks ago
"Hopeful optimism!"
"Saaarrrcccasstic skepticism!"
"Yeaah....I'm gonna have to ask you guys to stop doing that.
affableevil 107p · 706 weeks ago
(Mark is totally going to love that episode holy crap)
echinodermata 118p · 706 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 706 weeks ago
I thought I was starting to calm down about this, but I saw a promo for Encore's LOTR marathon this weekend (narrated by Billy Boyd's lovely Scottish accent) and it oh so helpfully pointed out something that had so far managed somehow to not register:
MARK IS MISSING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOVIES WITH THIS DELAY AAAAAAAAAAAARGH
thus I am having a nerdrage relapse over here.
(seriously, why is he not reading these already? :'( )