I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good.

Xander ,'Beneath You'


Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.


erikaj - Jan 11, 2012 5:58:20 am PST #8212 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!

Would it be mean to suggest Homicide? I think so.(Adena Watson would really fuck with his head, as she ought to...I still half-assedly wait for the confession at the end of the one with the arabber and I know better.) To say nothing of that thing with Kellerman that was purposely written to be as ambiguous as humanly possible. "You, Mark Watches, have a dark side inside of you...you've got to know the darker, uglier, parts of yourself...got to love them cause they make you who you are...anything else is just a bore, you know?" Also, there are many crazy(I mean, awkward) folks in Simonverse Balmer. Awkward as batshit in fact. He would love Bayliss, though. Although it kinda seems like he *is* Bayliss so maybe that's too weird?


Polter-Cow - Jan 11, 2012 6:08:01 am PST #8213 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

He does love The Wire.


Steph L. - Jan 11, 2012 6:08:58 am PST #8214 of 10459
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Awkward as batshit

Ha! I may have to start using this phrase.


DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 6:12:54 am PST #8215 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Mark has watched and read some fairly dark shit. Including Hunger Games and The Wire and BSG.


erikaj - Jan 11, 2012 6:16:38 am PST #8216 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!

Huh...he seems so shockable...I'd never believe it. I should read his thoughts about Snoop someday.


Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2012 6:20:21 am PST #8217 of 10459
brillig

.he seems so shockable...I'd never believe it

This. Forget not having read SF/F, has he never watched the news?


DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 6:31:24 am PST #8218 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

He's actually had a fairly difficult life - kicked out of his house as a teenager and disowned for being gay, homeless etc.


erikaj - Jan 11, 2012 6:36:20 am PST #8219 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!

Wrod, but it sounds like maybe not? Could not find much "Wire" commentary on the site, except that Idris Elba's hot. Which he is. But that could be because Wirefiends are very much a secret handshake fandom instead of linking to sites to go "Dude...rookie in the house!" we like to think we're too cool.


Jon B. - Jan 11, 2012 6:39:10 am PST #8220 of 10459
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think many of you may be misreading Mark. When he says he doesn't "like" something, it doesn't mean that he doesn't enjoy it from a storytelling perspective. It's two totally different things.


Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2012 6:40:46 am PST #8221 of 10459
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Being shockable is not the same as naive. My mom is 90, and has been a lefty involved in politics since she was 90. She has no illusions about the nature of war, or about the honesty of politicians. And she had a quite Dickensonian childhood. Yet she still gets shocked at cruelty and dishonesty, even when she is not surprised.