A REAL LIVE GHOST!

Just watched 5 episodes in a row to catch up. Not only did we get an actual honest to goodness ghost, we got a show that is completely back on track. Why? Because they stopped for a second to actually deal with solid story lines and didn't bother with ludicrous story lines like Chase, Mia, Skills, all that modeling whack-a-doo. Also, Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan!!!! Holy cow Dan is the M.A.N.!!! Whoo boy... so jazzed right now that I'm just going to stop writing and save it for futher, future, deep analysis... about how more ghosts will undoubtedly be infiltrating the cast in the near future. Thanks for reading this blog Mark! You totally know you do...

Missed

Had the chance to do three days of extraing while in Wilmington last week, but had to turn it down. Called about Friday, got a call back saying we had to do Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday to get it. Tough luck. Judging by the MASSIVE amount of trailers outside of TRIC when we drove past on Friday that it would have been there, with EVERY cast member and probably a band too. Can only imagine what that experience would have been like. But I had a much better time dreaming about my future instead of being a walking background stuck in time.

Wilmington hasn't changed that much, except that they are out of veggie dogs at The Scoop and they changed the Peanut Butter Buzz shake to Nirvana. I'm guessing because of Love Buzz. Clever.

This season is going to be brutal, I'm sure. My only hope is that they do something seriously interesting with Dan... but I'm sure it they will instead just turn it into a reality show about Mia and what awesome new song she writes with Laguna Mitch every day. I am not sure why I call him that. Mitch just fits so perfectly after Laguna. Ya know?

We Are Now In Ghost Wars

After watching the season finale, I am completely sold on the idea that we are now watching OTH: Ghost Wars, in the afterworld, and not in the "real world" of the living. When did it start? The second Peyton wakes up from her coma. The resulting end of the season from this point on is far too sun shine and rainbows, everyone has too happy of an ending for it to be real. What we are seeing are the dying wishes of a happy world that she will never get to see. Victoria and Brooke make up, Mia and Chase are happy, Nathan makes the NBA, and she rides off into the sunset on her metaphorical comet into the blazing hot inferno of Market Street heaven. Don't believe me? Listen to Dan's speech. He is already dead. He fully understands that there is a battle coming between the eternal and the darkness. And I am FULLY convinced that he will lead the side of light against his rogue dark mage son Nathan. Did you see the look he passed dan when walking into whitey's place? That is straight EMPIRE son!!! Pure, unforgiving evil. And the final battle waged between the two sides will be epic. And I so hope that Chase gets his head cut off by one of the millions of Mia CDs that now flood the Empire's garbage pits.

Let me just stop right now and proclaim my utter disgust at the promotional tactics for he this season. That album must clock in at 150 munutes, dual gatefold, bonus disc level of material. Cause we heard at least two of her retarded songs in each ep. Terrible.

So Dan is the redeemer of light, the angel of grace, partnered with his granddaughter Sawyer. We will remember the moment he first held her years later with joy and sadness. She will fight hard for the resistence in Van Diemens Land and her heroism will not be forgotten.

And Karen will always be hawt. Especially when she is Dan's eternal love slave... But in like a really awesome way cause she totally loves him. And Keith is totally okay with it because he will be far too busy with his denim basketball war machine factory (remember, this is Ðan's primary battle weapon. Magneto style...

Is anyone else, like, getting total chills? I thought so.

Mark... We Need To Talk...

I want to preface this by saying that I just watched the second to last episode of the season. Roughly 5 minutes of it was worth while, and that involved blood on the dance floor. The rest, dear god, utter dreck. What on earth is shwahanananana thinking with the writing/story direction. Every side character story "drama" is pathetic. How many times can we watch Skills "lose" Jamie? How bout why on earth should anyone care about Mia and Laguna Mitch? They talked the whole episode about how they were going to have dirty sex and then they never did. BORING. The only thing that can save this now is if Dan comes back with a sawed off shotgun and starts taking people out for squandering their lives thinking of new Nick Degrees jokes. They are making me hate Jullian cause he's such a love freak. Just be cool dude! Chill with yer ultimatums... If you hadn't pulled a Mosby early on maybe you'd be chillin with yer honey in Malibu... But instead.... Well, whatever, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters right now to me is where on the planet/underworld is dan?! Last we saw him he was cruisin for a bruisin in the ocean doin his best Moses impression. He NEEDS to come back or I am going to lose hope forever... These are "last chance Mark" times, UNLESS...

Watch Delay

Just want to let "the world" know that I haven't watched the ep yet. Christy was out last night, so I'm waiting for her to watch it tonight. Actually the real reason is that I went to sleep at 9PM and woke up at 6... and I'm still tired. What is up with that? Coffee time...

Some new bunk

First of all, let me just say, I really did not like last night's episode. At certain times I felt squeamish watching it. I'm starting to get upset that so many episodes are less 90210 and more Saved By The Bell/Full House. Jackson is like one step above Michelle Tanner right now and it drives me nuts. And I'm starting to get the feeling that I'm not going to like Lucas and Peyton again until she has a miscarriage and Lucas blames her for it. Or maybe Dan can cut the baby out of her, but it has to be done out of pure evil, not because it's somehow for her own good. Then that gives us a mad baby to work with in the Ghost War too.

The only purpose it served for me is it gave me one measly idea that has dead 40's Mouth chasing Millie's dead virginity all over Van Dieman's Land. And visually Millie's dead virginity is just the torso down to the feet that from the crotch to the belly button is torn in half thanks to Owen.

Universal Title

I wanted to make a main blog post out of this one... resurrect it from the comments section. Adam suggested a bunch of U2 related names for the Ghost Wars Universe, and my vote is 100% for Van Diemen's Land... little background on that name:

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to explore Tasmania. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

In 1803, the island was colonised by the British as a penal colony with the name Van Diemen's Land, and became part of the British colony of New South Wales. In 1824, Van Diemen's Land became a colony in its own right. In 1856 the colony was granted responsible self-government with its own representative parliament, and the name of the island and colony were changed to Tasmania.

So obviously, Anthony van Diemen will have to be the lord of all the land that no one ever sees. He is a myth, a legend... he will ride a speckled horse and blast Rattle and Hum from a jam box as he rides through the town... think The Headless Horseman, but instead of a pumpkin for a head, JAM BOX.

The other suggested names were quite intriguing though...

The Unforgettable Fire - I see that as a level 15 magic spell one of the mage characters can cast...not sure if it should be a good or evil spell, but either way, it sounds pretty righteous.

Another Time, Another Place - A parting line always said by Keith? Right before he disappears into the corn field.

Hawkmoon - Keith's name for his chopper.


And now, some other random ideas:

- It will never be any other month than October.
- Mothers of the Disappeared: The club Peyton's numerous dead mothers belong to.
- Zoo Station: My brain is blank on this one right now, but I know it should be used somewhere. Actually, here's an idea: Zoo Station is the name of the local radio station where Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois are the eternal DJ's... playing music that they utterly despise, but are forced to play. They comment about it A LOT...

OTH dreamland, HERE I COME! Hopefully this time it will focus around the entire female cast asking me what my top 100 records of all time are... and then we'll all go record shopping at Pancakes & Records in the heart of Wilmington. Adam, you down with making us record store owners in Van Diemen's Land?