Sunday, March 17, 2013

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Episode Reviews
Monday: Cowboy Bebop - The Real Folk Blues Part II and Stargate SG-1 - Window of Opportunity
Tuesday: Princess Tutu - Finale and Firefly Rewatch - Ariel
Wednesday: Cowboy Bebop - The Movie and Doctor Who Rewatch - Blink
Thursday: The West Wing - Pilot and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Friday: Friday Night Lights - Pilot and Buffy Rewatch - Life Serial

Chapter Reviews
Monday: Emperor Mage - Chapter 8
Tuesday: Blackout - Chapter 11
Wednesday: Emperor Mage - Chapter 9
Thursday: Blackout - Chapter 12
Friday: Emperor Mage - Chapter 10

As a reminder in case anyone missed it, we've started a new thing where anyone can request that we edit the time-stamp of their weekly "verbs" threads so that sorting the comments by date will make them easy to find. affableevil is keeping a list of who has already requested their threads be changed. So if you want to be added to the list, let us know! 

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Threerings Reads the Vorkosigan Saga

This week: "The Mountains of Mourning" and The Vor Game

After that I'll be out of stuff in this series to read...come on Paperbackswap...

Also, edit my time? I totally WOULD have been here early this morning...if there had been a post. :P
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Elie reads Sword of Storms and watches Game of Thrones season 2

I've been without a working computer the last few days. I am super behind at this rate.
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Earthsea book club!

This week we're finishing up Tehanu and then starting Tales From Earthsea
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Sara Watches Alias

If you could edit the time I'd appreciate it, so I can find the post later.
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spectralbovine reads The Broken Kingdoms

Timestamp change request!

Current Progress: Chapter 15.
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spectralbovine watches The West Wing

How did you guys wait three whole months??

Current Progress: Season 2, Episode 1.
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Tim still reads Midnight Blue-Light Special
Can this be bumped up to the first page please?
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The new post is here!
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Aurora_Belle reads Street Magic
At least this title made sense right away.

Discussion/spoilers in reply.
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After thinking over A Very Potter Senior Year, I came to the surprising conclusion that it's actually Ginny who's the real star of the show in this one. Jamie Lyn Beatty's performance is pretty much like if Radical Edward and Misa Amane had a baby, unlike anything she's had to do before, and she dives into the role full force, pulling off a tricky tightrope act that could easily have just been annoying (see Denise Donovan from Starship). Hopefully she can do more stuff like this in future projects.
Steven Watches 200 Movies for the First Time! Week 5

Buckle in because it's time to spend the next 4 weeks in the 1940's 1941 - 1944:
This week is epic!
Citizen Kane (1941) - Technically no one directly recommended this. But I'll give credit to Sara and Spectralbovine since they brought it up and I remembered I hadn't seen it. (Spoiler alert: I watched it and it's amazing.)

Casablanca (1942) - Again this wasn't technically a recommendation but Sara mentioned it so she gets the credit.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - HITCHCOCK. nanceoir gets the credit.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - I picked this one because I recall that my mom loved it but I've never seen it.
Double Indemnity (1944) - More Noir. I don't know much about it. Spectralbovine gets the credit.

EXCITEMENT!
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Aurora_Belle rereads Cold Fire
The title seems to be an oxymoron but definitely makes sense in context with the story. *shudders*

Discussion/spoilers in reply.
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Lossthief Watches Spice & Wolf



Wait, that's the wrong wolf anime...
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I'm randomly reading chapters from Tortall and Other Lands as I work on homework today, and I just read The Hidden Girl, and I LOVE LOVE LOVED it!
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I took Mark on the Minneapolis - St. Louis - Indianapolis leg of his tour, and he cackled as we watched episode 11 of Princess Tutu. When I got home, I watched the rest of it and now my life is over and I am bereft.

AHHH.
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The FunkeSummers watches The Lizzie/Lydia Bennet Diaries !
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Alice Plays Mass Effect
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Mwahahahaha.

Newsflesh Trilogy spoilers:

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KITTEN CAM ALERT

Seriously if you're having a bad day, or not, whatever, just watch it because ADORABLE KITTENS and it's ALWAYS ON. 24 HOUR KITTEN CAM MAGIC IN HERE.

RIGHT NOW ONE OF THEM IS IN A BOWL.

BOWL KITTEN.
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TIME FOR THE SHALLOW END/SIR INTEGRA'S POST OF SHALLOWNESS. Maybe this week I'll actually post more than one thing, who knows. I'm thinking it'll just turn into the 'Sir Integra won't shut up about Paul Gross' face' thread instead. Anyway, please go forth and be shallow, otherwise I'll be forced to just post gifs of my butt endlessly, although maybe that would be a bit too narcissistic.
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My Life Since Finishing Princess Tutu

- Crying
- Reading fanfiction, and subsequently either crying or squealing with delight or both
- Whimpering
- Staring at fanart
- Sobbing (this is different from crying okay) (because it's less about the tears and more about my whole body shaking uncontrollably and there being this deep ache in my chest that won't go away)
- Planning out possible scenarios involving my loved ones in which I am able to naturally work into conversation the fact that they need to watch this show about a duck ballerina saving a heartless prince from an evil raven.
- Laughing at myself and what my life has become
- Crying some more

In summary:

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Remember when I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood? Well, I was impressed enough to buy the entire manga series, and I've now reached the part with Mustang's revenge on Envy that I got so upset about. And here's the funny thing: in the manga, it WORKS.

There are two reasons for this beyond what was in the anime. First, we get to see that the souls trapped inside Envy are being tortured along with him, and Mustang ignoring this does make it quite a bit more disturbing than when he seemed to be doing it to Envy alone.

Second, rather than just being a perfectly nice guy, the Mustang of the manga is a ruthless power grabber who's scheming to take over the country from the moment we meet him. And so, what came off in the anime like an absurd statement that his killing Envy would somehow flip a switch in his head from good to evil, here makes perfect sense as we see how this action would feed into his more negative personality traits and cause them to take over.

So there you have it: that's what it took to make the scene work the way Arakawa intended for me.
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School of Thrones episode 2. For about ten seconds I was thinking "I can't believe they actually got Aiden Gillen!"

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Any Carnivale fans here?

The A.V. club has a great interview with Daniel Knauf talking about how the series would have progressed had it not been cancelled. Part 1 and Part 2.

I thought this was a great quote about storytelling:

I’ll watch Lord Of The Rings, and he has to get the ring, he’s got to throw it into Mordor, but who gives a shit without the relationship with Sam? At the end of the day, all of that big sweeping stuff is just an excuse for interaction between characters. For me—especially with TV, because TV is a really instant medium, and you’re having these people in your living room—it’s not only their relationship with each other, but you’re vicariously having a relationship with the characters through other characters. To me, storytelling is all about the interaction. It’s an excuse to vicariously live through other characters. That’s just always been my definition of storytelling. The rest is just an excuse to throw all these characters together.
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weekly baking thread!

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