{"id":2092,"date":"2013-09-10T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:03:29","slug":"mark-predicts-lady-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/mark-predicts-lady-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;Lady Knight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT?\u00c2\u00a0<em>ONLY ONE BOOK LEFT<\/em>? THIS IS A TRAGEDY. But that\u00c2\u00a0<em>does<\/em> mean I&#8217;ve got another prediction post to embarrass myself with. Those are always fun! This time is especially ridiculous, not just because it&#8217;s the final\u00c2\u00a0<em>Protector of the Small<\/em> book, but because I have like\u00c2\u00a0<em>one thing I can truly predict<\/em>. Okay, maybe\u00c2\u00a0<em>two<\/em> things. HERE COMES A LOT OF GUESSING.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s go over my\u00c2\u00a0<em>Squire<\/em> predictions first:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I assume Kel becomes a knight at the end of the book.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Huzzah! 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>So does Neal!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Huzzah! 2\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kel will have her first kiss.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>More huzzah! 3\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find out who kidnapped organized the kidnapping of Lalasa and Jump.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I AM ON A ROLL. 4\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I think it was Joren.\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>I AM A WIZARD. 5\/5<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kel will have difficulty finding a knight to be a squire under. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>TECHNICALLY. 6\/6<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>But she will gain one by the halfway point of the book.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>OKAY. This is also technically true? I said\u00c2\u00a0<em>by<\/em> the halfway point. That happened! I just want a really good score for once. \ud83d\ude41 7\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Someone will get kicked out of the squire program for breaking the rules.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>OKAY DO VINSON AND JOREN COUNT? Wait, they fit the next one more, so I&#8217;ll count it for that one. 7\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Another person will simply not make it to the end and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become a knight.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Joren. Vinson.\u00c2\u00a0<em>oh my god.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a08\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(Please let it be Vinson or Garvey. Or both of those.)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I HAD NO IDEA. 9\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>More Sir Myles? <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Actually, yes! 10\/11<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>More Daine? <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Wow, I totally cheated. 11\/12<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>More Jump?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Seriously, the next prediction is so spot on. 12\/13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>The goddamn\u00c2\u00a0<em>truth<\/em>, y&#8217;all. -1,000 \/ 14<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SO MANY THINGS WERE RESOLVED ALREADY. WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GOING TO HAPPEN?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;ll take away more points just because I was so ridiculously unprepared for Squire. -10,000 \/ 15.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, the problem I foresee with these predictions is that\u00c2\u00a0<em>I have no fucking clue what to predict<\/em>. Well, let&#8217;s start off with the couple things I\u00c2\u00a0<em>think<\/em> we&#8217;ll see in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Lady Knight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kel will find out what the\u00c2\u00a0<em>hell<\/em> the Chamber was talking about when it showed her that small man, and she&#8217;ll use that information to stop the Murdering Child Soul Robots. That is their official name, FYI.<\/li>\n<li>Kel will find a way to be with Cleon by the end of the series.<\/li>\n<li>Kel will\u00c2\u00a0<em>not<\/em> be a knight alongside Raoul; I think King Jonathan will send her elsewhere. (More Bazhir, please!)<\/li>\n<li>Owen will become a knight!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>And then I don&#8217;t know<\/em>. Every plot thread from\u00c2\u00a0<em>First Test<\/em> through\u00c2\u00a0<em>Squire<\/em> has been resolved! I DON&#8217;T KNOW WHAT ELSE IS LEFT. So&#8230;. stuff?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kel and George Cooper will team up to fight pirates.<\/li>\n<li>Sir Myles will adopt fourteen cats.<\/li>\n<li>Lord Wyldon will open up a school for lady pages. (Actually,\u00c2\u00a0<em>this would rule so much<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>Raoul always sounds so attractive. Sorry, that&#8217;s not a prediction, it was just on my mind.<\/li>\n<li>Gods???<\/li>\n<li>Wait okay, can we\u00c2\u00a0<em>please<\/em> find out what the force\/god is behind the Chamber of the Ordeal is? Because\u00c2\u00a0<em>what the fuck.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I am clearly just posting bullshit at this point. I am unfairly unprepared for\u00c2\u00a0<em>Lady Knight<\/em>, my friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I start\u00c2\u00a0<em>Lady Knight<\/em> on Thursday! IT&#8217;S FINALLY HERE YAY.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mod note:<\/strong> Hey, folks. I know the Master Schedule says today would include the short story &#8220;Time of Proving&#8221;, and it looks like that got overlooked. Oops! Mark&#8217;s already been nudged about it, so you needn&#8217;t worry about it. In the meantime, remember that Mark&#8217;s videos will be all the more nuntastic because of<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Tom Hiddleston saying 'delayed gratification!'\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/437c70bd63d38375a103286d1b26ce75\/tumblr_msmbz6S1mr1qc8t1to4_250.gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Preach it, Tom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARK NOW<\/strong>: Here is my much-delayed reading of &#8220;Time of Proving&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBSGwwVrJbA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I have redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/\">MarkDoesStuff.com<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/blogs\/news\/8154711-welcome-to-the-new-mark-does-stuff-store\">Check out this post explaining the new changes<\/a>, which includes the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/collections\/all\/video-commissions\">a permanent archive of all Mark Watches videos<\/a>!<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/06\/mark-does-stuff-summer-tour-2013-is-here\/\">The Mark Does Stuff Summer Tour is happening now! 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This time is especially ridiculous, not just because it&#8217;s the final\u00c2\u00a0Protector of the Small book, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/mark-predicts-lady-knight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,376,278],"tags":[378,250],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lady-knight","category-protector-of-the-small","category-tortall-2","tag-mark-reads-protector-of-the-small","tag-tamora-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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