Episode Reviews
Monday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Him
Tuesday: Angel - Spin the Bottle
Wednesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Conversations With Dead People
Thursday: Angel - Apocalypse, Nowish
Friday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Sleeper
?: Doctor Who - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
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Meanwhile on Reads, Mark continues the Newsflesh trilogy and the Song of the Lioness quartet.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
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affableevil 107p · 671 weeks ago
sorry for forgetting about this last week :(
I've recently started getting into DnB music so here's my favorite:
redheadedgirl 120p · 671 weeks ago
Someone on Tumblr asked Mark what he thought the last scene of Buffy would be. Mark said:
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V guvax gur svany fprar jvyy or Ohssl, Qnja, naq Tvyrf fgnaqvat ba n pyvss ybbxvat bire n qrfgeblrq Fhaalqnyr naq fzvyvat.
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nyfb gur rnegu orggre bcra hc naq rng fbzrguvat orpnhfr v unir orra ORTTVAT sbe guvf gb unccra va gur pnaba bs NALGUVAT sbe yvxr guerr lrnef"
.....
Medli 141p · 671 weeks ago
Mark is doing another Ask Party on tumblr and OF COURSE I had to ask how high FMA:B is on the Watches priority list, and I got this in response:
"oh god it’s so high that i was going to make a really terrible drug joke and have decided not to"
sophiesensation 139p · 671 weeks ago
Ryan Lohner 119p · 671 weeks ago
Also, since the Miss America pageant started in Atlantic City in 1923, I'm expecting there'll be a comic relief subplot about that.
spectralbovine 140p · 671 weeks ago
Come for the capslock, stay for the puns.
Current Progress: Page 912.
lossthief 111p · 671 weeks ago
Welcome to the NHK - a sort of surreal dark comedy about an introverted shut-in and his attempts to re-enter society.
Haibane Renmei - a show that I have heard is wonderful but have no idea what it's about. Something about people with wings I think? Nobody's ever given me a straightforward answer about just what it is.
Gankutsuou - an anime retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Again, said to be fantastic.
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad - Your Band Can Totally Still Make It: The Anime
Last Exile - apparently a steampunk inspired anime. A friend of mine has been trying to get me to watch it for months now.
Samurai 7 - A Sci-fi retelling of the classic film Seven Samurai. Currently airing on Toonami.
Even if you've never seen any of the shows, feel free to vote for whichever one sounds the most interesting to you. The original plan was to watch Puella Magi Madoka Magica but as Mark is apparently gearing up to start that show soon, and my contingency plan temporarily fell through, I figured I'd let you all decide.
writingfreak88 87p · 671 weeks ago
BornIn1142 102p · 671 weeks ago
It's a cartoon that started a few months ago, about a pair of twins that moves in with their great-uncle in the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, where they get involved with various supernatural and otherwise bizarre hijinx. I believe that the creator has described it as "The Simpsons meets Twin Peaks." Not only is it completely hilarious, it also has hints of an over-arching storyline and makes very good use of continuity in general. It also features one of the most lovably eccentric female leads I've ever seen. (The main characters are based on the show's creator and his own twin sister, and this just gets more and more heart-warming the more you find out about it.)
Everyone that watches this show seems to love it, so... the odds are favorable.
Noybusiness 127p · 671 weeks ago
Dragon Elexus 124p · 671 weeks ago
What did the Movies Do Wrong?
I think where the movies suffered the most was the fact they had to pack so much into such a short format. A lot of the changes they made were necessary, and while I complained about quite a lot of them when I was younger, I feel they were justified now.
Still, there were some changes I just couldn’t understand at all, and it usually meant dropping something from the original to add something that was unnecessary. For example, adding the random Burrow Attack scene in HBP, and then changing the ending of the movie so much. What suffered the most was cutting out the Marauder’s backstory for a werewolf chase scene.
I’ve been thinking about how that could have been done better- and I’ve decided that a flashback narrated by Sirius would have been amazing. Show them as students, close and laughing. Show Pettigrew’s betrayal, Sirius coming across the bodies, and flying into a blind rage…finally ending with him being arrested and shut into Azkaban. It wouldn’t have taken too long, it would have been suitably dramatic, and more interesting than people just talking, if that’s what the execs were afraid of.
I’m pretty sure I know the answers to tomorrow’s question, but; Did you enjoy A Very Potter Musical? .
ppyajunebug 137p · 671 weeks ago
Fandom Wank Wiki page
All the posts at fandom_wank
A summary of VB's wank
Even if you only read the summary of the Victoria Bitter debacle, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR and read all of the Thanfiction wank. There are sorting community apps and undead shaman wizards and children who may or may not be birds.
Lil Sebastian 99p · 671 weeks ago
So, I haven't been around recently. I've been busy, and I'm just now trying to catch up on Buffy and Angel (my next episode is "Help"). BUT! I finished my other books and I'm about to start reading this sure-to-be masterpiece. I'll post my predictions/things that I know in the comments, but please, don't spoil me. Vampire baseball just made me so happy last book, and that was mostly because I didn't know it was coming. So, let's have some fun or maybe not.
Current progress: Preface
Ryan Lohner 119p · 671 weeks ago
Also, there's a new spinoff!
Medli 141p · 671 weeks ago
lossthief 111p · 671 weeks ago
SLIGHT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!
cait0716 125p · 671 weeks ago
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Come hang out on Second New Old Earth 7!
writingfreak88 87p · 671 weeks ago
Spoilers for the new Arrested Development episodes.
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stefb4 131p · 671 weeks ago
rot13 spoilers, plaintext in replies, don't spoil me unless I ask yada yada
spectralbovine 140p · 671 weeks ago
Holy shit, it's amazing to watch how Walt has changed over the course of the series and how Bryan Cranston has played so many sides of him. Walt is so different at the beginning that I realize he's undergone a character arc as dramatic as Zuko's: just the opposite.
lossthief 111p · 671 weeks ago
Dragon Elexus 124p · 670 weeks ago
What did the Movies Do Wrong?
I’m going to say “yes”.
I’m not the biggest fan of the musicals- mostly I find they’re too long, and I have trouble staying invested for the full duration- but I’m really impressed by the productions. The singing and dancing are excellent, the acting is great, the writing witting, and I think it’s a wonderful send-up to the series we love.
I do hope that it eventually gets some repeat performances. Not necessarily by the original cast- I know that’s not easy to organize. I understand that a lot of people are hesitant about letting any other actors into the roles they basically created, but I’m of the opinion that one of the wonderful things about theatre is that different people can interpret and inherit the role.
We often feel a deep connection to fictional characters, especially those a lot like ourselves; Which character are you most like? .
stefb4 131p · 670 weeks ago
i kept jerking awake, feeling terrified
i actually woke up screaming which i haven't done in awhile
also i'm pretty sure i had sleep paralysis at one point which i tend to have way too often at least i hope it's sleep paralysis
everything had a distinct adventure time feel i don't even know why it's not even scary LIKE THAT WAS WHAT WAS ON MY MIND WHEN I KEPT WAKING UP
i actually had a really odd uncomfortable feeling when i finished the episode i was watching and went to bed and usually that indicates i'm going to have a terrible night of sleep...i didn't fall asleep for good until i made my dog move from the floor to my bed (she keeps the ghosts away from my feet....feeling like someone's grabbing them is usually what startles me awake, i always have to have a heavy blanket over and tucked under them)
you'd think this would have happened when i saw 'the possession' the other day but noooo let's have it when i'm watching funny cartoons
writingfreak88 87p · 670 weeks ago
I've been wanting to do something for a while...so here I go! On what was, at one point, probably the most popular anime import from Japan.
DISCLOSURE: I was not the original Dragon Ball fan. That belongs to my younger brothers, who would usually watch this or Dragon Ball Z while my mom was cooking dinner while we were growing up. I was never a big fan—the pace was too slow for me—but I did watch a few episodes by osmosis, which means that I know a couple of things:
-Gurer vf n cvt jub, jura gur qentba vf bhg, jvyy jvfu sbe gur jbeyq'f pbzsvrfg cnve bs haqrejrne.
-Gurer'f n onq thl anzrq Cvppbyb, jub V nyfb xabj jnf cynlrq ol Fcvxr va gur yvir npgvba zbivr.
-Tbxh riraghnyyl unf n fba naq tnvaf n unyb, juvpu V thrff zrnaf gung ur qvrf? V qhaab.
Otherwise, though? I have no idea of the plot.
ppyajunebug 137p · 670 weeks ago