If the Mark Watches blog were a song it might be this one:

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Talking about Buffy and thinking about fashion are two of my favourite things and at some point this is going to turn into a short post about costume or the relative lack of it in BtVS season 8. However, it’s my journal and if I want to begin with a massive digression about some random Fred ‘n Ginger movie then I can.

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Damn comics. I may have inadvertently written my very own Buffy/Angel manifesto. I think I need to go and exfoliate until it bleeds. Or watch Spuffy vids as a penance, although most of them are really Spike vids in disguise. The unholy combination of the camera’s male gaze and the creator’s object of desire. There are some honourable exceptions. ( Read more... )

There’s a circularity to this season. It shows itself in the arc titles. A circle always ends where it begins hence The Long Way Home. Later issues embody another feature, that opposing poles are part of the same whole. Not either/or but both. The Chain is both a constraint and a connection, Retreat has both military and religious interpretations. ( Read more... )

When the preview covers for part three of the Retreat arc came out I thought the Jeanty one looked especially interesting.
(  Kraft durch Freude )

Disclaimer: I suppose these are more (entirely subjective) reactions than recs as such. But words are hard and a vid has to get under your skin for any to come. There is no bad. There is much good. Links to all vids and vid shows are here.

( Non-attending Premieres (3 vids) )

I’ve been on holiday all through Vividcon and its aftermath hence radio silence. I hardly know where to start but these are the two vids that stood out for me most during the first frenzy of downloading.

Land by sweetestdrain
(  Johnny Rotten is full of it )

It feels a little strange to be having thoughts on Torchwood. I gave up on the series about two episodes in and, because of the time it was on, only caught bits and scraps of the minisieries apart from Day 5. Still there are thoughts.
(  Politicians, heroes and old wives )

( Backing into the limelight )

( Vampire ecology and love does the wacky )