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[shadowkat]

OW! OW! OW! I dropped my laptop on my foot. The lap-top is fine. The foot not so much. I have ice on it. And yes, it is the same foot that had the stress fracture in 2010, and got a sprained ankle in 2009.

Also have the oddest craving for grapefruit juice. One of the things I loved about Buffy is the character preferred grapefruit juice mixed with orange juice - which for years was the only way I could drink oj. OJ is more acidic than grapefruit juice for some reason.

Everytime I read Mark Watches, I find myself thinking: no, yes, no, no, no, yes...to his predictions.

Mark: I like Riley, he'll probably die by the end of the season.
Me: No...he never dies, unfortunately.
Mark: OZ has lived too long, he'll be dead soon...
Me: No, he just leaves like Riley does. But I think he dies in the comics? The jury is still out on that. Riley unfortunately is still alive. But OZ...there's nothing definite either way. [Anyone reading the S9 comics know if OZ is definitely alive?]
Mark: I love Professor Walsh. She's probably dead by mid-season.
Me: True. But you won't love her any more.
Mark: There will bees in S4.
Me: Well not unless you count the magical bees in Fear Itself. But they felt more like evil fireflies to me.

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[local-max.livejournal.com]

COMIC SPOILERS Oz is definitely (probably) alive. At least, I can't think of any indication why he'd be dead -- he was still around after the big Retreat battle. So were his wife and child.

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

A lot of times I feel like Mark has taken the philosophy from GRRM's books (anyone can die, and most of them do) and applied it to everything else he reads/watches. With Whedon the pessimism isn't entirely unwarranted, but Mark doesn't seem to realize that GRRM is known for that because he's the exception. Most stories tend to keep their main cast alive, or have only one or two characters die.

This is especially odd to see applied to things like Tolkien. I'll grant that a lot of LotR is fairly grim and the characters think it's hopeless, but in context... Tolkien was writing about the triumph of good over evil. With that in mind, it's not all that surprising that nearly everyone makes it out alive and most of them get a happily ever after.