TWoP recaps

[slemslempike]

Victoria demands both supper and clothes for Miss Tyler: "I'm tired of nakedness." (Yeah, and 250 years later you still need a prescription for Plan B, you old bitch.)

So Jacob (Televisionwithoutpity recapper), in addition to misunderstanding at least half of the cultural references in Doctor Who and being too much of a fool to ask about them, thinks that Queen Victoria is to blame for the state of reproductive freedom in the United States? An entirely separate country both then and now? Although he's probably not aware of it, in Britain we don't need a prescription for emergency contraception anymore. And even when we did I don't think that there were many people refusing to sell it. But that aside, what? He also brings up the whole Victorians covering furniture legs for modesty and is generally rather dire. Last series I read the recaps because they were hilariously awful, and now he has sucked out the hilarity. Now I read because I like a nice bit of controlled hatred in my life.

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[rosmar.livejournal.com]

I really did not like this last recap, and I've been a Jacob fan. It's too long, too convoluted, too self-consciously (and passive-aggressively) hand-wringing over what he said in a previous recap, and . . . yeah. I GOT THAT TENNYSON IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR ANALYSIS STOP QUOTING IT EVERY GODDAMNED PARAGRAPH.

Argh.

But I still like the Farscape recaps he does, and last season's Who recaps were awesome because they matched my analysis of the season (I'm easy that way). Maybe I will just not read this season's recaps. The episodes aren't exactly thrilling me, anyway.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind his analysis of the show too much, just that the way he writes is so gushy and self-aggrandising and he gets a lot of things just plain wrong and that annoys me. Ugh the Tennyson quotes. Do you know Tennyson, Jacob? Do you? Special little literary snowflake.

I have just trapped my finger in the desk, so I'm going to blame him for that as well I think.

[rosmar.livejournal.com]

Ow, finger! Yes, add that to his sins. I would!

The self-aggrandizing gets to me, but maybe not as much as it should because I'm that smug, myself. *shame* Hell, I was thinking about the Gnostic and Miltonian themes in Season 1 before he wrote about them, and I thought I was a geek. (Just not one getting paid by TWoP for my smug geekery, more's the pity. So to speak.)

I dunno. This season is annoying me, and reading Jacob slobbering over how hoooooot David Tennant is, isn't helping me love it. So, pfft, whatever.