In the first Snark Tube post I mentioned that (Emmy Winning!!) Lizzie Bennett Diaries was one of the reasons we first started toying with this forever ago. I'm pretty excited, then, that we managed to get this idea off the ground just before they started Emma Approved. After the success of the P&P adaptation, this was the most obvious choice and I'm not just saying that because Emma is my favorite forever. She's just so obviously the one who would be most likely to start a vlog, in large part because she's the most self-absorbed of the lot.
Jane Austen described her as a character that only she would like, so it's not really surprising that people seem annoyed with her vloggy incarnation.
What's this? A TMYK post? MADNESS. Right, so, for those of you who are new around here, this is a thing we used to do but randomly stopped doing for no reason other than time/laziness a few months ago.
Lorraine: I'm gonna go ahead and defend us and say it was more a time issue. No one who reads this site can accuse us of being lazy. I mean, we are sometimes, but you guys wouldn't know it.
Sweeney: That's totally true. I was doing the whole self-deprecating thing, but now that you mention it, yeah, we put an insane amount of time into this blog.
Lorraine: I'm gonna go ahead and defend us and say it was more a time issue. No one who reads this site can accuse us of being lazy. I mean, we are sometimes, but you guys wouldn't know it.
Sweeney: That's totally true. I was doing the whole self-deprecating thing, but now that you mention it, yeah, we put an insane amount of time into this blog.
The Snark Ladies have decided to tell you a little bit about what they think of this Fall season’s new TV shows. In part two, we talk about some of the pilots that aired between September 22-28.
Shows covered: Mom, The Blacklist, Hostages, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Trophy Wife, & The Crazy Ones
Shows covered: Mom, The Blacklist, Hostages, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Trophy Wife, & The Crazy Ones
Lor and I have been discussing the idea of a new series, of sorts, in which we can discuss random YouTube videos which catch our attention. I think the idea first came to us during The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. We wanted a way to be able to say, "Hey, here's this cool thing we're watching," but LBD episodes didn't really lend themselves to recapping, what with them being so short. But, you know, it would have been great to establish some sort of precedent/category on the site for us to discuss, for example, Darcy Day. Or the Catching Fire trailers. Or the thousand other flail/rage worthy things that come across the internet that we want to bring to you so that we can all sit around and discuss how we feel about them because obviously Lorraine and I have lost any other way to process such feelings because nobody else in our lives understands why we have so many feelings about fictional things.
In a nutshell: So there's this guy, right? And he's fighting in the Revolutionary War all heroic and brave like, right up until some creep with a metal mask comes over to stab him. In his dying moments, this guy (Ichabod Crane) goes down swinging and manages to chop off the head of the creep with the mask. He dies, and if that weren't sucky enough, Ichabod Crane is rudely awakened from his grave 250 years later, and soon falls right into an epic mission: the Headless Horseman is back as well, and in the year 2013, it seems that everyone likes their horsemen with heads and generally not going around killing people and being apocalyptic. Ichabod teams up with Lt. Abbie Mills to figure out WTF is going on.
What Lorraine Thinks: This show is batshit crazy.
What Lorraine Thinks: This show is batshit crazy.
It's time for a super epic DESTINY'S CHILD DANCE PARTY. Why? It's Lorraine's birthday! I know you all have important things to do with your lives or whatever. LOLJK. I actually know that you all come here to avoid ever doing important things with your lives. Or because having Destiny's Child Dance Parties with us is basically the most important and best and most awesome way you could possibly spend your time. Any of these things.
Since Lorraine is one of my favorite human beings on this planet or any other that I am aware of, and because without her my favorite thing on the whole internet would not exist, she gets an entire celebratory post and you should join the fun.
Since Lorraine is one of my favorite human beings on this planet or any other that I am aware of, and because without her my favorite thing on the whole internet would not exist, she gets an entire celebratory post and you should join the fun.
Chances are, dearest of Traumateers, that you've heard the news. No, not about Syria. No, not about that guy sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. No, not about that school stabbing. No, not about Miley Cyrus. FOCUS.
We're clearly talking about Fifty Shades casting news! I know, I know. If you're like us, you've been ignoring the early news about this movie, hoping that someone, somewhere would wisen up and realize there is no actual way you can film a tampon scene. Rumors swirled, Brett Easton Ellis plugged for his own involvement, a director was chosen, and still we hoped against hope that it was all a joke.
We're clearly talking about Fifty Shades casting news! I know, I know. If you're like us, you've been ignoring the early news about this movie, hoping that someone, somewhere would wisen up and realize there is no actual way you can film a tampon scene. Rumors swirled, Brett Easton Ellis plugged for his own involvement, a director was chosen, and still we hoped against hope that it was all a joke.
I don't know if we can keep calling all of these late or not. I think the first rule of Segue Magic is that there are no rules when it comes to Segue Magic.
Last time, Sweeney introduced "Beyond Traumaland," which gives us a chance to briefly discuss things we are reading and watching outside of the material we cover here on Snark Squad. In the video below, I talk to you a little about Code Name Verity, Eleanor & Park, the seventh season of Doctor Who and Orphan Black.
Plus I also confuse myself a little bit when it comes to spoiler tagging vlogs.
Last time, Sweeney introduced "Beyond Traumaland," which gives us a chance to briefly discuss things we are reading and watching outside of the material we cover here on Snark Squad. In the video below, I talk to you a little about Code Name Verity, Eleanor & Park, the seventh season of Doctor Who and Orphan Black.
Plus I also confuse myself a little bit when it comes to spoiler tagging vlogs.
Late video is late and a mess. OH WELL. BETTER LUCK NEXT WEEK. This week we are doing a thing in which we mention that we watch/read a lot of...
Dear Traumateers, Sweeney: I cannot even begin to process where the time has gone. I had a freak out this morning when I realized that it was already July. I’m...
At the beginning of this video, I reference the epic struggle through which this came about. Sorry guys. My personal laptop quit on me, so I’ve been using my work...
DAY LATE. SORRY, SORRY. This video was a beast to edit and I will never ever make another one of these without taking some sort of notes beforehand. Most of...
LONG VIDEO IS LONG. I’M SORRY. I tried to cut this down as much as I could. There are so. many. things. that I didn’t get to in this video, which...
The things we cut from these videos are often as important as what we leave in. For instance, I cut out a lengthier rant about John Hughes movies, a piece about how I never watched teen movies and thought, "yes! That's how high school is for me," and clarification that yes, my sister did buy her first movie in 2001, because we've never, ever been big movie owners. To this day, I own a handful if that.
Lastly, making these things makes me acutely aware of my own speech patterns and habits, like my tendency to pad everything with filler words like, "maybe," "probably," "definitely," etc.
Lastly, making these things makes me acutely aware of my own speech patterns and habits, like my tendency to pad everything with filler words like, "maybe," "probably," "definitely," etc.
A couple things: (1) I failed to mention that the fact that Easy A is basically a giant PSA against slut shaming. This is important because it’s an enormous part...