Maybe the Buffy ones have gotten more extreme, but the Angel recaps were much worse than the Buffy ones for quite a while.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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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"
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?)?
amych - May 27, 2003 1:25:10 pm PDT #2468 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Wonder what happened to the orb of thessula (sp?)?
Someone's probably using it as a paperweight.
Anne W. - May 27, 2003 1:33:16 pm PDT #2469 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The only TWOP recaps I read on a regular basis are the ones for CSI (the recapper loves the show, and unless the episode is just plain wonky, the snark is more affectionate than bilious and the recaps read like genuine critiques) and Trading Spaces.
I'm assuming that Ganya refers to the Giles/Anya pairing?
I'm glad that the Phoenix isn't particularly pro or anti any 'ship (with the exception of radical TheirLoveIsSoPure! schmoopiness which demonizes--and not in the good way--any characters who threaten that One True Ship).
Lyra Jane - May 27, 2003 1:35:28 pm PDT #2470 of 10001
Up with the sun
I can only read TWoP if it's a show I don't actually care about, like Charmed, otherwise, the bile (and the length! by the time I've read 12 pages, I could just as well have watched the show!) just irritate me.
I think they know snark is funny, and it's easier to write than beng genuinely pleased. I mean, how often can you say "Wow" and not sound like a pathetic fangirl?
RobertH - May 27, 2003 2:37:15 pm PDT #2471 of 10001
Disaffected college student
I can only read TWoP if it's a show I don't actually care about, like Charmed
This is me, only with Enterprise. I like to read some of the forums occasionally, too. I think the Firefly forum was troubling some of the admins, filled as it was with such lack of snark.
What's the longest anyone has gone in the Buffyverse without being struck by the smoking curse? 'Cause it looks like Faith has a pretty good shot at breaking the record.
Cindy - May 27, 2003 2:39:17 pm PDT #2472 of 10001
Nobody
My mother is having a day out of Flooded. She was getting central air installed. The installers noticed her furnace (which is only 9 years old) is rusted out, in some part that can eventually make it go kaboom. So she now needs a new furnace.
When she was walking in the yard with the HVAC guy (for some reason) she slipped on a rock and went right down on her face.
When the HVAC guys are putting in the furnace and AC unit, they find a water pipe is leaking onto a gas pipe, and corroding it. She needs a new water pipe (and the HVAC guys don't do this - it's not a sales gimmick) so she has a call into her plumber, for that one. She needs two 25 foot lengths of pipe. As a courtesey, the HVAC guys take a look at the gas pipe, it's not just corroding, but corroded, and leaking gas in small amounts, so she'll have to have the plumber change that as well.
I told her about Buffy's, "No full copper repipe."
She pretended to laugh. But I think she actually wanted to beat the HVAC guys to death.
Narrator - May 27, 2003 3:25:49 pm PDT #2473 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I like to read some of the forums occasionally, too. I think the Firefly forum was troubling some of the admins, filled as it was with such lack of snark.
The forums. They are both better and worse. I'm all for folks getting their snark out, and some of the comments are pretty damn funny, even when they piss on a show I like. But there's a "can you top this" quality to some of the posts. And some of the Buffy threats after a certain character got shot was just ugly.
What's the longest anyone has gone in the Buffyverse without being struck by the smoking curse? 'Cause it looks like Faith has a pretty good shot at breaking the record.
Well, she's going to have to go a ways to beat Spike I think.
Gleebo - May 27, 2003 3:28:25 pm PDT #2474 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
Man, have you guys seen the out of this world sums of money they are getting for once worn clothes and bit props on EBay? If this doesn't scream "We WANT another spinoff, we NEED another spinoff, we will PAY crazy money for merchandise for another spinoff, I don't know what does".
Julie - May 27, 2003 3:41:34 pm PDT #2475 of 10001
I can only read TWoP if it's a show I don't actually care about,
Flying by to say, Miss Alli is my One True Recapper (and moving on to personal deity.)
But, I think her love for TAR shows in everything she writes, even if she doesn't love every element. That's the line that gets crossed with most people. (Recappers and "fans" alike.)
Forums mostly just plain scare me.
Ditto fandoms
$11, 000 for a signed script? Not on my planet (Get orf!)
edited 'cause diety? whole other thing.
Note to self: no posting before coffee!