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.

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I had a go at reading his recaps and found them pretentious and awful.

Also, the whole covering-furniture-legs thing was an American satirical invention in the first place.

[hazywizard.livejournal.com]

Just: Yes.

Okay, not just that. His recaps make me so grr, and thus I really feel better when someone else points out their uniquely moronic quality.

(oh man, and now I feel mean)

[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.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The fuckity fuck? Since when is Britain's former monarch to blame for the fact that the US has got religious fucktards with a large hante-on for science?

Or is he trying to say that's the same sort of attitude? If so, hello, Queen Victoria lived some time ago so how shocking she might have attitudes to reflect that. OHNOES.

[slightlyfoxed.livejournal.com]

And Queen Victoria loved the sex! And asked the doctor if there were any way she could have the sex and not have the offspring. He said there wasn't. She said, 'Am I to have no more fun in bed?' (probably a misquote, but I'm not googling 'fun in bed').

[blindfish.livejournal.com]

Seen the trailers for the Torchwood spin off?

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I don't know, 250 years later, maybe you will need a prescription for Plan B. 150 years later in the UK though, you don't.