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11 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Angel': ... · 0 replies · +1 points
I didn't remember any of the Cordy, Gunn, and Wesley parts at all, or most of the Host's dialogue (I guess because I had no context for it?), which I think is why I didn't feel any need to start watching the show until much later.
11 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Sandma... · 0 replies · +6 points
I looked up Cecile Latour and Chateau Lafitte a couple of days ago when I first read this, because it seemed weird that we'd get a lionsblood-tasting Chateau Latour (19)28 in Angel on Wednesday and then an (18)28 Chateau Lafitte owned by a Latour family today. It turns out that Chateaus Lafite and Latour were owned by the same family in the early to mid-18th century, but didn't have much of a relationship in 1828 (they were split in 1760, then sold to new owners after the French Revolution). Cecile Latour (owner of Latour-Labille wines) doesn't seem to be connected to either estate, the "Latour" in Chateau Latour being a landmark rather than a surname.
11 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Buffy th... · 1 reply · +6 points
"Trying to hit a puppy by throwing a live bee at it" just reminds me of Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding on Big Fat Quiz of the Year:
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11 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Sandma... · 4 replies · +9 points
”A king will forsake his kingdom” (Is this maybe the Endless who was said to have abandoned their realm? "Will forsake" implies that it's going to happen, though, whereas that Endless's abdication already has.) “Life and Death will clash and fray.” (Death is one of the Endless, but it doesn’t seem like life has the same kind of deal, unless Life is the other Endless and has just abandoned its domain to its own devices, so that Death is completely responsible for maintaining the boundaries between, but then he comes back and maybe tries to take some power/responsibilities from her somehow. Desire and Despair could be seen as parts of life, but then so could Dream and Delirium, who seem like they might be less likely to attack Death. Of course, it could be less literal; if Death is weakened, that would amount to the same thing. Also, fray could be synonymous with “clash,” but it could also mean that the lines between Life and Death are fraying like cloth--which would be appropriate since this is being said by the Fates--meaning the boundary between them is confused and there might be people/beings who are crossing between or are a mix of the two, like zombies.) “The Oldest Battle begins once more.” (Well, the oldest story is Cain and Abel, so maybe Biblical, but IDK.)
So Desire has minimalist white panels with sigils that seemed at the time to be in order from left to right, Dream has more ornate picture frames with the sigils in a different order (Desire, a heart where in Desire’s own realm it’s a face, was to the left of Death’s ankh), and Destiny has them as portraits which I think we can perhaps assume are in the correct order (I think he, more than any of the others, would probably want them to be in chronological order). Also, both Desire and Dream summoned them with “I stand in my Gallery, and I hold your sigil,” whereas Destiny says “I stand in my Gallery, and I summon the family to me.” It feels like I'm constructing models of these things out of my mashed potatoes while muttering "this means something." I think I’m possibly attributing undue importance to the issue of galleries and sigils.
Why would Delirium be upset to be the youngest of the Endless? Upset because she was Delight, which would mean that delight was the last of the major concepts that thinking beings understood and experienced, long after things like destiny and death and despair?
So there’ve been three lovers in Dream’s life: the little one from Greece (Calliope), the one from the pretty plane with all the twinkly lights (fairy lights, as in the Land of Faerie? Or maybe I‘m just thinking this because Faerie is IIRC the only place that‘s been called a plane so far?), and then Nada. Poor Nada.
11 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Sandma... · 2 replies · +11 points
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11 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Sandma... · 2 replies · +5 points
ETA an example. This one actually has the episode placement (though not the title) outside of ROT13.
11 years ago @ http://markspoils.blog... - Geeky Weekly Funtimez · 1 reply · +7 points
11 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Sandma... · 1 reply · +7 points
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