Mark Spoils: Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Episode Reviews
Monday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bad Eggs
Tuesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Surprise
Wednesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Innocence
Thursday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Phases
Friday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Saturday: Fringe Enemy of My Enemy
As well as a Sherlock review on Monday or Tuesday and last Friday's Fringe review.

Liveblog
Sunday: Sherlock - The Reichenbach Fall
Friday: Fringe - Enemy of My Enemy

Meanwhile over on Reads, Mark continues The Fellowship of The Ring.

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amyalices 78p · 688 weeks ago

Oooo, this week is Phases! I have good memories of that episode!

...Let's hope it lives up to them. :S

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tigerpetals 85p · 688 weeks ago

Here's a leaked clip from Korra: http://marcusto.tumblr.com/post/15868692654/dange...

Reposted so everyone can see it.

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Medli 141p · 688 weeks ago

Dreading Friday. Need a "fist of an angry mod" gif. Have an idea, but need to decide where to pull it from in the series.

On upside, loving Silmarillion so far. Trying to intentionally go at a slow pace through it so as to better absorb information.

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notemily 139p · 688 weeks ago

So this week's LOTR chapters should be:

Monday - Mirror of Galadriel
Tuesday - Farewell to Lórien
Wednesday - The Great River
Thursday - The Breaking of the Fellowship
Friday - The Two Towers - The Departure of Boromir (probably?)

And then maybe the FOTR movie on the weekend? I'm still not sure whether Mark has been listening to the pleadings of Team One Novel or not. Has anyone heard anything from him on this?

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hpfish13 115p · 688 weeks ago

I've had an idea recently, I thought it would be fun to do some meme-ish posts for Buffy over here on the spoiler blog. Would any of you guys be interested?

I have some ideas for about 10 questions, but would welcome suggestions!

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affableevil 107p · 688 weeks ago

Awful Comments of the Week

A place to vent. Begin the Airing of Grievances!
(If this one gets as large as last week's thread I'll make an overflow post.)

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drippingmercury 87p · 688 weeks ago

Errr, Buffy spoilers in reply.

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beckaboomer 76p · 688 weeks ago

Ahhhh, Surprise and Innocence this week!! So excite!

...oh God, Friday is going to either be my favorite day or the WORST DAY EVER. I'll try to keep hope alive.

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notemily 139p · 688 weeks ago

So I finally watched North & South since Netflix had been recommending it to me for ages, and I finally understand what all the fuss about Richard Armitage (who in my mind is now named Richard Dwarfitage) is about. Hoo boy. Smoldery Thorin, yes please.

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misterbernie 111p · 688 weeks ago

I know it's been passed about a couple times already, but remind me, whom do I have to bug for the gif making tutorial again?

I think I've founded the perfect 'whoopdeefuckendoo' gif-able scene to open my comment on BB&B with.

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Shay Guy 91p · 688 weeks ago

I have a big question about Buffy spoiler policy that will very shortly become relevant. Just to be safe, I'll put it in the reply.

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stefb4 131p · 688 weeks ago

I wish Mark was going to read Rurouni Kenshin. I am on such a RK kick right now.

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jenskiss 123p · 688 weeks ago

I'm just going to be over here doing a little dance because Mark picked up on Arwen/Aragorn in text! Yaaaaaaaah my number one ship of all time!!!

(I may or may not have been slightly irritated by some comments that insinuated that there were like...no textual hints about it, when in actuality there are like...a million veiled hints and some serious overt ones.)

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stefb4 131p · 688 weeks ago

Well, looks like Mark read the first chapter of The Two Towers at the least.

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Medli 141p · 688 weeks ago

I just realized that if Mark does decide to start TTT on Monday, it'll be the same day as Cnffvba over on Watches.

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hpfish13 115p · 688 weeks ago

After reading the comments today by the new watchers, every time I think about Passion it feels like I've just eaten a ton of bricks, or that someone is stomping on my soul.

That is going to be a hard day......I both can and cannot wait.

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Alexander_G 75p · 688 weeks ago

You know you read to much Harry Potter when:
You write 'parselmouth' instead of 'parsimonous' on your cladism exam
The prof was like:

MarkReads, what are you doing to my brain :P

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Tauriel_ 109p · 688 weeks ago

W00t! As of today, I'm a proud new owner of a 1-bedroom flat! :D

Still needs quite a bit of reconstruction and refurbishing and decorating, though - it's an old flat. Can't wait, will be fun. :p

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tigerpetals 85p · 688 weeks ago

I'm going to embed a video containing spoilers for the rest of season two. It will be in the reply.

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clawsight 86p · 688 weeks ago

Hey! Read Mark Watches through the last half of Avatar -- then took a break for BSG (want to wait to watch that and did not want to be completely spoiled going in. XD) stopping by for Dr. Who stuff -- but came back as soon as Buffy started up. I don't think I've ever commented, but, I read the comments a bunch. Don't remember when I found the spoiler blog -- I think it was back at the end of Avatar. idk.

I wanted to come over here and thank all the mods -- especially arctic_hare for putting up with the Buffy comments and the Xander wars. I want y'all to all know its appreciated. I also want to let arctic_hare know that I really appreciate her super well thought out comment/reviews. Mark Watches is one of my favorite sites on the Internet because it feels like a safe space where feminist (and even perhaps... radical feminist ;) ) viewpoints are taken seriously, aren't derailed, and are treated legitimately. I know for myself it's getting increasingly tiresome to see a well deserved critique of an episode or character re: gender problems and then watching someone try and fansplain the critique away and then, when that doesn't work, whipping out some good old fashioned silencing techniques. The fansplaining is getting so predictable and repetitive I'm almost ready to make bingo cards. And I know it has to be roughly 100x more aggravating for the folks writing the comments and moderating them, so, major, major kudos to all of you.

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notemily 139p · 688 weeks ago

Dude OK I have two things for you guys

First of all someone mentioned that Mark is an "unspoiled Tolkien virgin" in the comments, and that immediately made me think of Saruman saying "bring them to me alive… and un-spoiled." SO NOW I THINK WE NEED A GIF. Something to do with Mark, but I'm not sure exactly what the wording should be. And sadly we won't be able to use it for a while. BUT IT NEEDS TO EXIST.

Second of all HOW HAD I NEVER SEEN THIS DOCTOR WHO VIDEO BEFORE. (Spoilers for everything before Season 5)

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Sinnive 69p · 688 weeks ago

Um ... no review again! Is there a holiday today, or has the time schedule changed? Or is it because of the same thing that made wikipedia all black? Sorry if I missed something that everybody knows ...

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spectralbovine 140p · 688 weeks ago

Attention, Mobile Users!

Maybe I hadn't actually tried it before, or maybe I had to log in over here first, but if you use Dolphin, go to Settings -> Dolphin Settings and change to Desktop view, which will allow you to view any website as if you were using a desktop. You can then comment properly on Mark Reads/Watches with IntenseDebate. I don't know if other browsers have this feature; I know it was one of the selling points of Dolphin.

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hpfish13 115p · 688 weeks ago

Vague Buffy spoilers in reply

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hpfish13 115p · 688 weeks ago

I didn't know if someone else was planning on posting these, but just in case,

Day 1: Favorite member of the Fellowship

I have a different answer for the books and the movies. In the books I liked Legolas best (I can't really remember why, I just remember thinking he was awesome!), but in the movies my favorite is Sam. Sean Astin's performance is just absolutely brilliant and Sam's steadfastness is just so wonderful.

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