Episode Reviews
Monday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Touched and Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I'm Not Afraid of Anything Anymore
Tuesday: Angel - Home and Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Miracles and Magic Are Real
Wednesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - End of Days and Puella Magi Madoka Magica - There's No Way I'll Ever Regret It
Thursday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Chosen and Puella Magi Madoka Magica - This Just Can't Be Right
Friday: Angel - Season Five Predictions and Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Can You Face Your True Feelings?
Meanwhile on Reads, Mark continues Newsflesh and Song of the Lioness, and on Plays he continues Dragon Age: Origins.
Liveblogs
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
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lossthief 111p · 646 weeks ago
I'd honestly forgotten how much I love most of these characters. Especially Leo. OH MY GOD LEO I'VE MISSED YOU.
Current Progress: Page 211
ppyajunebug 137p · 646 weeks ago
Okay, here’s the scoop: I know things about this show. Some little things (character names, everyone loves Hurley), and some big things (the Dharma Initiative, weird flashback structure, something about a hatch). I did not live in a pop-culture vacuum when it came to this show (and, honestly, anyone on the Internet after this debuted can’t HELP but ~know things~ about it). But the fact is, I really don’t know where or when things happen. I only ever saw the end of one episode and I don’t even know what season it was. So, this is going to be interesting.
Ryan Lohner 119p · 646 weeks ago
Noybusiness 127p · 646 weeks ago
spectralbovine 140p · 646 weeks ago
An update on my reading schedule! Given that each chapter seems to be about twenty pages long, I'm going to read four or five chapters this week and plan to finish the book on October 30. I will start ADwD afterward with no break, but the wedding week will be a low-pagecount week. Plan your lives accordingly.
Current Progress: Page 819.
amyalices 78p · 646 weeks ago
I just bought Dragon Age: Origins. *Facedesk* I know NOTHING ABOUT IT, I will have to catch up...
stellaaaaakris 106p · 646 weeks ago
spectralbovine 140p · 646 weeks ago
I just finished season one! It definitely improved a lot from the early episodes and became a lot less formulaic as it had more character-focused stories. Although I'm enjoying it, I must admit I still don't quite understand the brony phenomenon. It is a solid, well-written children's show, but it doesn't seem to have much real adult appeal. I expected there to be more references for parents to pick up on (I did like the Diamond Dogs, ha) and more complex stories and themes.
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are my favorites, both voiced by the same actor despite having opposite personalities. I think because I'm an extroverted introvert, I relate to both of them as the two sides of my own personality (although I am nowhere near as extroverted as Pinkie Pie, even on a good day). Also, they have the cutest voices. I really enjoy Spike and his general sarcasm (and I always identify with someone with a hopeless crush). Applejack and Rainbow Dash I go up and down on (and I sometimes forget Applejack is a girl because she's such a tomboy). Rarity is my least favorite, but she does have her moments (she was great in the Diamond Dogs episode). And Twilight Sparkle is mostly just sort of there as the straight man; I like her well enough.
(I see what you mean about the Cutie Mark Crusaders episodes. There were two in a row! And they are kind of annoying. But "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" was an awesome episode since it wasn't really about them.)
I do really like that this show actually is about the magic of friendship and looks at all the typical travails of being friends with people with diverse personalities, and the messages at the end never feel cheesy. Even though it's treading familiar ground (friends are great, trust your friends, friends are awesome, friends help each other, listen to your friends, and so on), it still feels fresh and original for some reason.
Dragon Elexus 124p · 646 weeks ago
Not sure if I can ever get that into it. Its just...really, really weird. I feel I'm on an acid trip watching it, and I suppose I just like a little more coherency to stories.
That said, I definitely appreciate the wacky humour and weird visuals. Also, but complete coincidence, the episodes I watched mostly focused around this guy called the Ice King...and oh, boy, that backstory. I did not expect it in a cartoon like this. Na vaabprag nagvdhrf pbyyrpgbe jub orpnzr cbffrffrq naq pbeehcgrq ol gur fabj pebja, nyybjvat uvz gb fheivir gur Ahpyrne Ubybpnhfg, ohg ng gur rkcrafr bs nyy uvf ybirq barf naq uvf zrzbevrf? Holy fuck.
Tell me there's a good fanfic giving resolution to that poor man.
Otherwise, I'm moping about the sudden and unexplained three month hiatus of Young Justice after coming back for just two episodes.
Kickpuncher 116p · 646 weeks ago
Current progress: Episode 3
OatBreeze 91p · 646 weeks ago
hpfish13 115p · 646 weeks ago
Spoilers in reply
misterbernie 111p · 646 weeks ago
obviously spoilers below
deleted8507234 94p · 646 weeks ago
Srsly. I've given up on the end of angel 4 and buffy. Honestly, as much as I love Nathan Fillion, Caleb has never appealed to me. He's just too much of a caricature villain. I'm sad to say that s7 did go down hill after a while. And the Jasmine arc really does very little for me either. I might watch Angel s5, but I don't know. I'm going to have to put Madoka on hold as well. Just too much going on to actually watch tv I have to pay attention to. I'm still in the early days of my DA:O replay and that's all I really care about - that and the Feed reviews.
I've read all the Newsflesh novels and quit after two Pierce novels. They weren't compelling enough to spend $8 each on I'm afraid.
I tune in every night before bed to catch up with the Mark Does Stuff sites and check for interesting stuff in the talks here and the SpectralBovine GRRM posts. It's why my replies show up hours or days after posts are made.
I have Madoka mentally bookmarked for later when I do have time for TV. All this real life, getting in the way of my pop culture social life.
LucyGoosey · 646 weeks ago
spectralbovine 140p · 646 weeks ago
cait0716 125p · 646 weeks ago
Wicked! Avenue Q! Rent! Jesus Christ Superstar! Camelot! The Fiddler on the Roof! Cinderella! The Sound of Music! Buffy musical! Chicago! Moulin Rouge! Phantom of the Opera! Bye Bye Birdie! Into the Woods! Oklahoma! My Fair Lady! Grease!
I love musicals. It's why I'm still watching Glee, despite all the problems with that show. Express an emotion with a song and you've got me hooked.
If I have to pick just one musical, I think I'll go with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the one with Brandi. I adored this musical when I was a child. I actually wore out the VHS from watching it so often. It's a fairy tale! And the songs are so fun. I especially love the opening duet between Cinderella and the Prince, which they wrote just for this edition; it's what bumps it up above the Julie Andrews soundtrack for me. I like that Cinderella and the Prince meet before the ball, and that they actually have some things in common that make a relationship between them plausible.
On top of that I love every single song. Impossible is something of a mantra I can hum to myself when things start to get overwhelming. I'll often find myself singing A Lovely Night after a particularly good date (and occasionally I Could Have Danced All Night, but that's a different musical). In high school, I got to choreograph a waltz to Ten Minutes Ago when the choir did a Broadway review.
I do need to give a special shout out to Jesus Christ Superstar, which I listen to every Easter. It's about the only tradition I observe in conjunction with that holiday, but it's an important one.
Tomorrow: your favorite use of a song in a (non-musical) movie or TV show
Lil Sebastian 99p · 646 weeks ago
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jenskiss 123p · 646 weeks ago
Y'all are getting this because I'm home sick with a stomach bug and I'm bored.
Friday Night
Snow White and the Huntsman - It was bad!
Saturday Night
The Lucky One - It was bad!
Currently
Dark Shadows - It is bad!
Seriously, Chris Hemsworth had chemistry with a POPTART in Thor and yet he and K. Stew had NONE. And not for lack of trying on Hems' part.
Also, I rented the Lucky One with the assumption that I would get to see at least Zac Efron's butt. DID NOT HAPPEN.
Dark Shadows is just...maybe if I'd seen the soap?
megotelek 112p · 646 weeks ago
So I've been meaning to try to read manga for a while now, but it was really intimidating to try to read something in a way that feels backwards to me. So, since I finished watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I figured I would get the manga adaptation, since I already know the plot and can figure out what order things are supposed to go in. It's mostly working out, but I'm still having issues with the whole right-to-left thing.
And now I feel vaguely confident about reading in this format, so I thought I would ask the good folks over here for some recommendations. I'm up for anything, really, but as far as my current tastes go in regular comic books, I read Morning Glories, Fables, Atomic Robo, and a few Big Two books (the new Amethyst of Gemworld, Wonder Woman, Batwoman, and the new Marvel Captain Marvel - Carol Danvers, not Billy Batson).
spectralbovine 140p · 646 weeks ago
So on Friday I just kind of snapped and decided that the only way I was going to be able to survive my incredibly ridiculous workload was to stop freaking out all the time and just calm down and chill. To that end, I decided to make a new Pandora station full of calming music, based on "Skylines" by Karmacoda and a couple dozen other of my favorite calming songs. Including the below song, which is just beautiful.
Amusingly enough, the station keeps giving me more Minipop songs (it's given me only a couple more on my regular station), and it's clear that the whole album is just as lovely and I really ought to get it. Unfortunately, it's out of print and going for $50 on Amazon Marketplace and $217.42 on eBay. I think I'll just pay $8.99 for the mp3s. I would really like to find a CD, though, because they're local! I want to go see them and get it signed and whatnot!
(I'm also getting a shitload of Massive Attack, and I feel like I should actually buy a Massive Attack CD at some point too. The Fauxliage album sounds like a winner too. arctic_hare, I know you like Delerium; have you heard Fauxliage?)
Pica Scribit 132p · 646 weeks ago
stefb4 131p · 646 weeks ago