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Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Gargoyles': S01E06 - The Pack

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:40:59 +0000

it's like you can literally hear keith david's voice

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Gargoyles': S01E02 - Awakening, Part II

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:40:09 +0000

"the sparkle realm" i'm trying so hard not to make a yu-gi-oh! joke, you have no idea accents aside, the voice-acting in this series holds up really well, i gotta say! keith davids in particular does a fantastic job here

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Gargoyles': S01E01 - Awakening, Part I

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:45:32 +0000

it is literally impossible to separate this show from memories of my childhood, god. i remember running home after school to catch the episodes. my friends and i, just this gaggle of tiny hollering pre-teen girls, used to hike up the back of our jackets and "glide" around with the wind at our backs. we would sit on my front step drawing ourselves as gargoyles. it was just that perfect transitioning moment from younger to older kid, and gargoyles was a fantastic primer for the slightly more complex narratives you meet as you grow and the scottish accents are still just as terrible as i remember, bless

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Over the Garden Wall': Chapter 4 - Songs of the Dark Lantern

Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:55:16 +0000

afaik he writes these reviews directly after watching, so he was probably still operating under a haze of what is this show what is happening at the time

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Over the Garden Wall': Chapter 4 - Songs of the Dark Lantern

Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:37:08 +0000

i love the ridiculously creepy note this ep ends on, especially the beast's taunting laughter/singing going right into the credits music also how is literally every word fred stoller speaks hilarious, what tf is this guys' voice ALSO ALSO the little russian nesting dolls of the gang on horseback is so stupidly cute, extra points for the frog holding beatrice

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Over the Garden Wall': Chapter 3 - Schooltown Follies

Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:42:35 +0000

iirc sweet potatoes and molasses are an actual thing?? i guess that just didn't fit the verse tho

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Over the Garden Wall': Chapter 1 - The Old Grist Mill

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:17:04 +0000

in hindsight, i feel like the vocal presences of elijah wood, christopher lloyd, and jack jones in just the first episode should've clued me in to this story being something special also, every time i re-watch this show the backgrounds blow me away anew. you could literally frame every one. the art book is gonna be amazing (it's due out this september!!)

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E13 - Gem Heist

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:19:05 +0000

i hope she pops up again after this arc; her va work here is honestly one of my fave things about this ep <3

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E12 - Adventures in Light Distortion

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:48:21 +0000

i teared up, too! zach callison's voice-acting is so unbelievably affecting at times, i swear

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E12 - Adventures in Light Distortion

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:39:13 +0000

wow, i ... actually had to go look this up. thank you for learning me a thing!

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E12 - Adventures in Light Distortion

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:18:56 +0000

so hey, has anyone actually watched those gravity engine scenes with 3d glasses on? does it work, or ... ??

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E12 - Adventures in Light Distortion

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:10:16 +0000

Nah, it seems like a lot of other ppl got similar vibes, but there's nothing wrong with speculating otherwise, I don't think :)

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E06 - Last One Out of Beach City

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:27:15 +0000

i still can't believe this episode happened (or POSSIBLE SPOILERS gung vg znl irel jryy unccra ntnva??)

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E05 - Future Boy Zoltron

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:22:33 +0000

IT'S ~~SUBTEXT~~ STEVEN or, well, more like foreshadowing, in this case

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E03 - Buddy's Book

Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:39:43 +0000

i need a nanefua-centric ep like YESTERDAY

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E02 - Know Your Fusion

Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:04:16 +0000

would "charisma" work, do you think?

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E02 - Know Your Fusion

Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:41:46 +0000

pearl and garnet's reaction at the start of the ep is the only acceptable response to smoky quartz tbh

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S04E02 - Know Your Fusion

Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:39:09 +0000

i love your shading!!

Mark Watches : Mark Predicts 'Steven Universe': Season 4

Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:37:41 +0000

that's .... a lot of sideways wipe transition, wow

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Steven Universe': S03E20/S03E21 - Bismuth

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:04:41 +0000

I never thought something on Steven Universe would make me more uncomfortable than Lars' and Sadie's relationship, haha. Wow. Sugilite as a one-off I could tolerate (Strong in the Real Way has such Unfortunate Implications, god), but this is just more of the same aggressive black lady-coded gem needing to be nipped in the bud by someone kinder/smarter/more enlightened grossness that I really could've done without sitting through a second time. Hopefully Sugar & Co. paid attention to people's critiques of this episode without writing them off the way other writers might. Kids deserve better material to play with, never mind older audiences.