The only recaps I can read any more are the Alias ones, mostly because Regina is seriously, laugh-out-loud funny, and she still feels the love for the show, and so is capable of being snarky in a good way.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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happy phantom - May 27, 2003 12:18:39 pm PDT #2458 of 10001
I'm old school. Like Happy Shopper.
Narrator - May 27, 2003 12:26:29 pm PDT #2459 of 10001
The evil is this way?
They're paid to be snarky. Plus, they used to really love the show and then lost the love and became bitter, so I think it's personal.
I'm not sure that this level of personal snark is appropriate. If the recappers have lost the love and can't get past that, then maybe they should get out of the recapping. (IIRC, the "Roswell" recapper had to get out because he really couldn't take what that show had become.) I don't mean that only raves can be posted. But this level of venom is just not OK to me. It seems to me at times that they snark about stuff that has always been in the show and act like it's some new thing. Which to me means that too much perspective has been lost.
Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2003 12:28:06 pm PDT #2460 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's the Angel recaps that did it for me. The Wes hatred was so bile-laden I couldn't figure out what show they were watching. You'd have to bend the show so much to even snarkily pretend that Wes was anything like he was on Buffy (or even early Angel), StB excepted, that it wasn't the show that was being aired.
Edited for errant comma.
§ ita § - May 27, 2003 12:31:15 pm PDT #2461 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't read a Smallville recap in forever, but I adore Omar. He's very in tune with my "realism" about the series. Jessica recapped X-Files way after it had failed her, and with very little bitterness. It's possible.
I don't want to have to hate it too to appreciate the writing.
Gleebo - May 27, 2003 12:43:59 pm PDT #2462 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
Does anyone else find it odd or at least ironic that you can buy the Urn of Osiris on Ebay now?
smonster - May 27, 2003 1:09:47 pm PDT #2463 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Wow. Nice to hear that it's not just me and amyth on the twop bile front. Omar does seem to have a good handle on the affectionate mocking thing.
I mean, when the recaps for Buffy are way harsher than they are for Smallville, it indicates a problem for me.
At this point, our very own MattTBF is my One True Recapper. Smart, succinct, and piss yer pants funny.
Trudy Booth - May 27, 2003 1:13:16 pm PDT #2464 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It's like rain on your wedding day, Gleebo!
Cindy - May 27, 2003 1:20:58 pm PDT #2465 of 10001
Nobody
Does anyone else find it odd or at least ironic that you can buy the Urn of Osiris on Ebay now?
It's no use. The urn's defiled. It's gone. Nothing, it was all for nothing. Buffy's gone. She's really gone.
Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2003 1:22:15 pm PDT #2466 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Maybe the Buffy ones have gotten more extreme, but the Angel recaps were much worse than the Buffy ones for quite a while.
smonster - May 27, 2003 1:23:25 pm PDT #2467 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Does anyone else find it odd or at least ironic that you can buy the Urn of Osiris on Ebay now?
t naive My first thought was, didn't the biker demons break it? t /naive
Wonder what happened to the orb of thessula (sp?)?