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[drakyndra]

The TWoP recap of PotW.

Jacob threatens to do a recap of The Christmas Invasion if Sci-Fi channel doesn't get a move on with Series 2. O_O

Comments

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

Aww, I've always quite liked Jacob's recaps. They certainly provide something you can't get anywhere else - and I certainly prefer 'em over some of the TWoP recaps that tip over the line from snark into spitefulness. I just can't take it seriously when some of the reviewers seem to be about to flip out and start screaming "HATE! HATE! HATE!" at any moment... You just know that some of the TWoP crew would have lengthy diatribes in which they desribe most of the cast as ugly and talentless, and insinuate that RTD must have serious mental problems. And we've already got Outpost Gallifrey for that.
But seriously... I've never fully got the TWoP love, and have always found the reputed snark - which can be a joy when it's actually working - to be pretty rare. Jacob has a few, in amongst the... eccentricities.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

But that's the thing - I like Jacob's snark, the first couple of recaps were quite amusing, snarky without being mean. But as he's gone on, the recaps have had less and less snark, and more and more terribly pretentious pseudo-literary stuff. And I can't stand that sort of thing, we were forever mocking it in my Creative Writing classes.

So it's even more annoying, because scattered amid the rubbish, you get these really amusing comments, which makes it all so irritating.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

I think to a great extent, it may be because Jacob reads the forums and cares deeply about what's said on them... there was the whole business with "The End of the World" where the recaplet was all: "Didn't like it." and the forums were like: "NO WAI!" and then the recap was: "I've watched it again, and I really do love it actually!". And of course, they keep validating Jacob's eccentricities, and saying how brilliant it is, and how wonderful, and it keeps building and building.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

*sighs* It's just... irritating. I've given up on the forums there completely, except for the point and laugh factor, mainly because the whole lot of them come off as Doctor/Rose shippers, only with a lit degree and aged up a couple of decades. So hearing them come up with batshit theories that I have seen confirmed as wrong amuses me deeply.