Nope, not useful to him.
Nov. 10th, 2011 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenMark Who Does Stuff is presently working his way through The Hobbit. In his most recent chapter review he writes: And I admit that it was kind of adorable that Thorin gives Bilbo a coat of mail, even if it probably won’t be of any help to him.
*dies* I actually started laughing out loud at that, and I'm not really a big LotR fan. Even I know that's LOL-worthy.
The charm and pleasure of reading Mark Watches and Mark Reads is mostly following his reactions and predictions for stuff (usually in the geek canon) that the rest of the internet is already familiar with. It's only slightly condescending; mostly it's enjoying watching someone discover something that you've spent time with and felt strongly about.
For his more overt predictions, where he's spent time thinking through expectations and tropes and stuff like that, he can be variously right or wrong in hilarious ways. Off-hand comments like this are almost more endearing. The first few replies to his post are chuckling about the mail coat not being important at all, tee hee. Oh, Mark.
(He's running out of BSG episodes to watch, alas. I'll miss his reviews of those when they're done.)
*dies* I actually started laughing out loud at that, and I'm not really a big LotR fan. Even I know that's LOL-worthy.
The charm and pleasure of reading Mark Watches and Mark Reads is mostly following his reactions and predictions for stuff (usually in the geek canon) that the rest of the internet is already familiar with. It's only slightly condescending; mostly it's enjoying watching someone discover something that you've spent time with and felt strongly about.
For his more overt predictions, where he's spent time thinking through expectations and tropes and stuff like that, he can be variously right or wrong in hilarious ways. Off-hand comments like this are almost more endearing. The first few replies to his post are chuckling about the mail coat not being important at all, tee hee. Oh, Mark.
(He's running out of BSG episodes to watch, alas. I'll miss his reviews of those when they're done.)
