Mark Spoils: Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Episode Reviews
Monday: Angel - The Price and The Legend of Korra - A Leaf in the Wind
Tuesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Entropy and The Legend of Korra - The Revelation
Wednesday: Angel - A New World and The Legend of Korra - The Voice in the Night
Thursday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Seeing Red and The Legend of Korra - The Spirit of Competition
Friday: Angel - Benediction and The Legend of Korra - And the Winner Is...

Meanwhile on Reads, Mark continues Sandman.

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affableevil 107p · 679 weeks ago

Music thread for this week!

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LossThief 111p · 679 weeks ago

Thursday should prove...interesting. As far as I can tell, that's the episode where reaction to Korra becomes rather divided, and I know Arctic Hare is certainly not a fan of it...

Personally, I think I'm gonna be waiting until Mark's finished Book 1 before I express my feelings on it.

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LucyGoosey · 679 weeks ago

So thanks to Netflix, I've been doing a massive X-files rewatch, all episodes, in order, even the ones that make me go "do I HAVE to?". I just finished season 1.

Mostly I've been playing a huge game of Hey! Its that Guy! Winners so far: First off, Željko Ivanek as Roland in the episode of the same name. He was Juliet's ex husband on Lost (the one who got hit by a bus, and the guy in House season 5 who took the clinic hostage. Second tier goes to Andrea Libman, the little girl in Born Again, is now a prominent voice actress. She voiced Emmy in Dragon Tales and currently Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

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Medli 141p · 679 weeks ago

hmmmm

*looks at the weather forecast for Thursday*

welp. whaddaya know.

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nanceoir 111p · 679 weeks ago

Nancy Reads Howl's Moving Castle!

I've finally started on this, and omgexcite! It feels like it's been a long time coming.

Anyway, here's what I know about the book, going in:
-It's by Diana Wynne Jones.
-It's pretty short, compared to the other things I'm reading.
-It has 21 chapters.
-There's a movie based on it, but it strays rather from this.
-There's someone named Howl? With a castle that moves?
-Yeah, that's it.

Feel free to read along or laugh at me not knowing anything or, well, whatever. :)

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LossThief 111p · 679 weeks ago

So.

This is apparently what's known as a Hummingbird Moth.

A Hummingmoth if you will

I want one.

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xyliane27 93p · 679 weeks ago

I have a favor to ask, folks. I have a 21 hour plane trip in a few days and need entertainment so I'm not completely bored. Air India's movie selections can be...somewhat lacking in selection. Any movies, books, TV shows, or other distractions you recommend?

I've looked at Mark's lists, but they're kinda intimidatingly long. (On that note--Mark is my hero for committing to read/watch all of that. SO MANY AWESOME THINGS.)

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redheadedgirl 120p · 679 weeks ago

Untitled

That's like 3500SEK of moose for FREE!

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sir_integra42 111p · 679 weeks ago

Anyone watching the closing ceremony at the moment?

I'm already trying not to cry because ELBOW and this song tends to make me cry like a baby at the best of times.

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ElusiveBreath 96p · 679 weeks ago

Niky watches Once Upon A Time and has a lot of ~feels.~

Spoilers in the reply!

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LucyGoosey · 679 weeks ago

Oh for the love of- can any of you fine, clever people tell me why I thought it would be a good idea to read all of the Fault in Our Stars in one day?

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spectralbovine 140p · 679 weeks ago

spectralbovine and monkeybutter need somewhere to talk about Breaking Bad without rot13

EMOTIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE FICTION.

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spectralbovine 140p · 679 weeks ago

spectralbovine reads A Storm of Swords

Plaintext spoilers, rot13 nunning, Kickpuncher punning.

Current Progress: Page 254.

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jenskiss 123p · 679 weeks ago

So I do the HeartWalk every year because my grandfather died due to complications with his various heart attacks and bypass surgeries, meaning I'm certainly at risk, and so is my dad. If anybody has a couple of bucks they can part with (and believe me - I know money is tight for most people) and feel like sponsoring a good/hilarious cause (I'm going to try running part of it this year - that's the hilarious part), here is my personal link. I promise pictures and/or heart shaped cookies to donors, if I can get my mixer running again. And I make good heart-shaped cookies, see here:

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Fuchsia 116p · 679 weeks ago

Okay, I'm trying this tumblr thing again after a six-month hiatus, but with a new tumblr. So it has pretty much nothing on it so far. But if you are so inclined, please give me your urls so I can follow people!

Aaaand I've just spent the last two hours on tumblr so this whole "in moderation" thing is obviously not happening.

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LossThief 111p · 679 weeks ago

Matt Smith you are adorable.

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@writingfreak88 · 679 weeks ago

Ah, the point in the season where everything Buffy and Angel related falls into a hellish pit of doom.

It's going to be an interesting week.

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Medli 141p · 679 weeks ago

Arctic_Hare Reads Deadline, part two in the Newsflesh trilogy that you all need to read either ahead of or along with Mark when he starts it after Good Omens if you haven't already. Seriously. It fucking rocks.

Plaintext in reply to this, and I welcome any and all nunning in rot13 at me that I can and will go back and read. I actually enjoy it in a weird way! I LOVE BEING UNPREPARED.

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Tauriel_ 109p · 678 weeks ago

Rejoice, o Doctor Who fans!

Matt Smith is staying for two more years - until 2014! :D :D :D

Which means he'll be in the role longer than David Tennant (David had 3 full series plus specials, Matt will have 4 full series plus whatever they're preparing for the 50th Anniversary).

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Pica Scribit 132p · 678 weeks ago

A Storm of Swords spoilers. *wink wink*

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In other news, I'm revising one of my stories from a couple years ago, and I found LEMON CAKES in it! I don't even remember putting them there. Stealthy lemon cakes! (It turns out I also referenced S. Morgenstern in the same fic. Help me!)

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Tauriel_ 109p · 678 weeks ago

Ahahahahahahahah... x-D x-D x-D

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Tauriel_ 109p · 678 weeks ago

Doctor Who stuff:

A friend of mine attended a special screening of the first episode of Series 7 in London. He said that there's a HUGE twist in it, so big that it will probably hit internet and newspapers by tomorrow morning, even though Moffat pleaded with people not to spoil things.

So I'm just passing the word on - any of you guys who wish to remain spoiler-free might want to avoid various DW sites, TV news sites, and forums, just in case... I believe the episode should air on 25th August, which is less than two weeks away, so it's not a long wait.

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@sab39 · 678 weeks ago

Would anybody be interested in sab39 Watches Andromeda? I'm actually up to the second season already and I watched season 5 when it aired originally so I'm spoilered for how it ends, but if there's interest I could start with a quick episode-by-episode memories-of-reactions recap of season 1 and the parts of 2 I've already seen and go from there. Any other Andromeda fans out there in SpoilsWorld?

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LucyGoosey · 678 weeks ago

Has anyone here read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? I finished it today, and it occurred to me that it would be a weird novel to categorize. Wikipedia lists it as a "children's book", and it does have a very children's fantasy structure. It also has some language that would raise eyebrows in a children's book, but not in a YA book, as well as plenty of WWII references. Some of the gothic elements are pretty grotesque, but I can see some kids loving them. And beyond the children's/YA discussion, I actually found it in the regular fiction section.

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Kickpuncher 116p · 678 weeks ago

Just rewatched The Spirit of Competition.

The first time I watched it, I was convinced that Bryke were trying to xvyy Znxbeen. V zrna, jul ryfr jbhyq gurl znxr gurz fhpu frys-vaibyirq nffubyrf vs gurl jrera'g gelvat gb cnvag gur eryngvbafuvc nf n onq guvat?

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