Oh, Mark. You have been so, so set up.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
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.
Fred Pete - Aug 15, 2012 4:50:32 am PDT #9577 of 10458
Ann, that's a ferret.
Steph L. - Aug 15, 2012 4:52:16 am PDT #9578 of 10458
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
P-C, has Mark/have the moderators considered not allowing comments for his post on Seeing Red? It just feels like a huge shitstorm is coming.
JZ - Aug 15, 2012 5:20:53 am PDT #9579 of 10458
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Teppy is wise. No comments period, or maybe redirect all comments to a separate discussion thread well away from the actual review, where the other moderators can moderate the shit out of it and Mark can just completely ignore it all for at least a few days.
It sucks because some of the commenters are really smart and thoughtful and spicy-brained, but the shitstorm is just guaranteed to be so epic, bile-filled and distressing and nobody needs either a repeat or, God forbid, an escalation of the previous shitstorm.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2012 5:22:17 am PDT #9580 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mark is prepared. He's going to be more active in the comments and has various pages to link to.
Steph L. - Aug 15, 2012 5:36:45 am PDT #9581 of 10458
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I admire him, and the rest of you moderators. I wouldn't want to deal with the comments on that episode.
JZ - Aug 15, 2012 5:55:25 am PDT #9582 of 10458
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Along with his gifs and all-caps Muppet-arms glee, Mark also has a gift for the occasional totally off-kilter understatement. From his review of "Forgiving" (the Holtz-kidnaps-Baby-Connor episode):
My god, I really hate Holtz now. He’s so gross and inconsiderate!
It's weirdly endearing.
le nubian - Aug 15, 2012 7:39:23 am PDT #9583 of 10458
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
P-C,
I removed my self from most of the commenting shitstorm around the 'net (some kind of way, I don't know what the hell was going on for me then), but from my recollection, the shitstorm was not a one week affair. "Seeing Red" through the end of the season was pretty much bad feelings-land.
People were still popping off about it during the final season up through and including "The Killer in Me."
The moderators may be making a long-term commitment to putting fires out, is all I'm saying. LIke more than usual.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2012 7:47:46 am PDT #9584 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A lot of people got banned in the "Smashed" shitstorm, so I'm hoping that may have quelled things.
Connie Neil - Aug 15, 2012 7:51:04 am PDT #9585 of 10458
brillig
Anymore I don't even read the comments. It's like the only people I trust on the Internet anymore are you guys.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2012 11:20:58 am PDT #9586 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ahahahaha, someone in the comments pointed out that if Holtz taught Connor English, he should speak with a British accent. I never thought of that!