Dear Traumateers,
Marines: When we started posting much more frequently around here, we decided that we’d use these TMYK posts to help gather all of the material we’d produced in that month and to have them serve as markers for our future selves and future readers: here’s where we were at any given month, dating back to August 2012.
When we look back at January 2015, then, we’re going to think, “OMG. WE DIED.” Probably not, but if we did think that we wouldn’t be too far from the truth. The truth is that we skipped our January TMYK because by the time we realized that we hadn’t done it, it was mid-February.
Sweeney: Which is, in essence, the story of all the things on the blog lately.
Mari: You all have been super wonderful as we hobble along and do our darnedest to shuffle things here and there so they fit our schedules more realistically. 2015 so far for me has been non-stop. I decided to go back to school (for communications, no less. So glad I took all those chemistry classes…) and am currently taking FIVE CLASSES in addition to working full time and trying to maintain normal human interactions, or whatever.
Sweeney: For my part, I moved, which for some reason, I didn’t expect to shake up my whole entire world as much as it did. It seems pretty obvious to me now that it would do that, but I really had convinced myself that I’d move to a new time zone and go from freelance life to a 9-5 and also try to make friends and that all of that would ultimately disrupt my life/schedule for a few weeks. This inability to see what’s coming and to correctly assess situations like this is sort of a running problem in my life.
Due to that personal failing, most of the hot mess at Snark HQ is my fault and a big part of how we’re about to get things back on track is, well, for me to be a little more honest with myself about what I can and will do for the blog. All of which is to say that you will probably see a lot less of my words/face in the coming weeks as Mari continues to put the house back in order mostly on her own. Like a boss.
Mari: Thank you! This space continues to be my way of decompressing and allowing myself some breathing room in the middle of this insane schedule. I love recapping and this blog a lot, so basically, yes, I’ll be doing as much as it takes to keep this place alive and happy.
So, you know, we’re going to kind of ignore the fact that we failed on January and just recap the last two months below.
Last (Two) Month(s):
We began the year in Orange County where the group got locked in the mall overnight. Ryan helped Marissa design a bonfire, so she dumps her girlfriend Olivia Wilde. Julie’s old porn tape gets played during a party and Trey gets accused of stealing something. Sandy heads up a yard sale and Trey actually steals something.
The plots over on Charmed continued to be the stupidest crap ever when Prue turned into a man to defeat a succubus. The P’s find a mortal “chosen one” who is destined to defeat a single witch in an episode that rips off The Blair Witch Project. The P’s suspect their various boyfriends of being warlocks. The P’s next face the demon that killed their mother and meet her old Whitelighter.
We start series two of Doctor Who with the Christmas Special which gives the line, “this new hand? Is a fighting hand!” Ten takes Rose to New Earth where they find The Face of Boe and Cassandra, who does a little body hopping. The Doctor helps protect Queen Victoria from a werewolf and ninja monks. Mickey, Rose and the Doctor go undercover at a school and run into Sarah Jane Smith. Clockwork aliens think they need Madame de Pompadour’s head for their spaceship.
Season 1 of Dollhouse ends with a look into a very terrible future. We wrapped season 1 up by squeeing about the general quality of the show and ranking all the 13 episodes. Season 2 starts with Echo getting married for an mission and Claire cracking under the knowledge that Topher made her. Echo is next programmed to be a mother and being creepy and shadow lurking seems to come as a consequence.
Gotham. SIGH. Gotham. Dr. Inara was introduced and everything else about the Arkham subplot made so little sense, I can’t recap it in a sentence. The Eletrocutioner is introduced and defeated with a glass of water. Fish is kidnapped and tortured for like 10 minutes. Future Scarecrow’s dad is introduced as a mad doctor trying to conquer his fear.
In Rosewood, Spencer has an extended drug dream in black and white. Ezra admits to stalking minors, but not because he’s A; he’s just writing a book. Aria is pissed and heartbroken, so she stomps around town giving everyone Big Eyes.
Meanwhile over in Capeside, Andie lies about an attempted rape and our recappers can’t even. Dawson and friends head to an island so he can film a rip off of The Blair Witch Project. Why is The Blair Witch Project in this recap twice? It’s Thanksgiving in Capeside and the weather makes no sense. Joey takes ballroom dancing lessons and Pacey and Jen’s friends-with-benefits relationship is discovered. Kendra the Vampire Slayer tells Dawson his film sucks. She’s not wrong.
The Winchesters investigate an Ohio town that’s full of bad behavior with minimal help from some demons. The next town up has real life fairytales and Sam kills the crossroad demon. A ghost ship makes people drown without water, or something.
How To Get Away With Murder came back from break and Sam Keating? You ARE the father. Class is back in session after winter break and the Pretty Little Lawyers are taking the whole murder thing pretty hard.
We revived Segue Magic! (Again.) This time with added Kirsti in the line-up. Please, please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel as we’ll only be cross posting here once a week. First up, Mari, Sweeney and Kirsti all discussed their favorite fictional couples. Next, we all talked about the pop-culture we tormented our parents with. And finally, Mari and Kirsti celebrated hitting our 1000th post!
February’s #snarkathon was Top Gun, hosted by Kirsti. She recapped the movie and selected her favorite Tweets. (There were so many amazing ones to choose from!)
Mari took one for the Internet and went to see the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. SURPRISE: It was awful.
Coming Up:
As we mentioned last month, #snarkathon has made it’s glorious return in 2015! Unless otherwise announced, they will land on the first Saturday of every month at 8pm GMT. (Keep informed by following us on Twitter!)
Hopefully we’ll see you this Saturday at 8pm GMT for Commando, hosted by the lovely Alex! Follow @Snark_Squad & @alextheaj to get the GO! instructions. We also recommend a service like tweetchat.com to follow the #snarkathon fun times.
Other news: we’re delaying the start of season 3 of Veronica Mars to accommodate real life scheduling things. We’ll start those recaps up again in mid-April.
Also, we’ll looking for volunteers to finish out the last season and a half of The OC! If you are interested in writing a (or another) recap, please either let me know in comments or send an email to team@snarksquad.com.
Welcome Questionable New Friends:
Today, I have a new friend who is having a real problem:
“can’t sleep having pretty little liars dreams”
Wow, if you mean you are having dreams about a town where minors get stalked and harassed and where every adult male seems to also be a statutory rapist, I think you mean NIGHTMARES. Sorry for you, friend! You’ve come to a safe place, though. Enjoy your stay.
♥
The Snark Squad