I rant, therefore I am
Oct. 8th, 2003 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelchickenAccording to my dermatologist, the meds I am on for my acne do not cause weight gain. Which sucks. SUCKS! Because I was sure that was at least part of it (the freaking timing coincides).
Grr, Agrh.
I think I am going to keep a food/exercise journal.
ETA: I have realized why TWoP recaps and the stuff about Spike is bugging me ever so much (nothing new. This has been around for a long, long time). So here it is:
Like the cool kids who publicly praise a new, relatively unknown band then completely turn on them when everyone else starts buying there albums, so does TWoP treat Spike. Go back to the recaps of season four and five of "Buffy" and season one and two of "Angel". Sep, Ace and Strega all loved Spike and JM. Every one. Strega talks about restraining orders against JM and Sep asks if James could sleep with her to get him in front of EC and MT in the opening credits. They loved him. And as soon as he started becoming popular, they turned their opinions around.
And that annoys me. I liked the recaps a lot. I read them every week without fail and one of my best friends printed out every one and gave them to me as a birthday present a few years ago.
I am not saying that they should love & adore the character and that they should cater their recaps to match my thoughts and feelings about Buffy, Angel, Spike et al. That's ridiculous. And they have every right to hate the character (Lord knows there is reason to hate Spike). But it feels so false to me. Like as soon as Riley left they needed a new scapegoat and Spike/JM filled the space.
This isn't all that coherent. And I have nothing against the TWoP recappers. I just can't agree with anything that is written about the ME shows at the site (in the forums as well. They got rid of the bitterness thread because the whole freaken' Buffy and Angel Forums are just bitter, bitter, bitter. For some reason the first three seasons are idealized and people seem to refuse to see anything good in the fourth through seventh season.
And, with all due respect, there were some crappy episodes in the first three seasons. And there were some excellent episodes in last four. And the whole TWoP mindframe of "terrible until proven otherwise" pisses me off. Yes, it was (and is) a website that focused on snark (it's their motto, for frank's sake), but there is a difference between fun snark and flat out bitter diatribes. It just isn't worth it anymore.
And that rant ended up in a whole different place that it started.
My main point was: The ME mods all used to love and adore Spike. Now they all despise them. And I'm not quite sure why. I thought they were recapping for the fans. Now I don't know who they're recapping for.
Grr, Agrh.
I think I am going to keep a food/exercise journal.
ETA: I have realized why TWoP recaps and the stuff about Spike is bugging me ever so much (nothing new. This has been around for a long, long time). So here it is:
Like the cool kids who publicly praise a new, relatively unknown band then completely turn on them when everyone else starts buying there albums, so does TWoP treat Spike. Go back to the recaps of season four and five of "Buffy" and season one and two of "Angel". Sep, Ace and Strega all loved Spike and JM. Every one. Strega talks about restraining orders against JM and Sep asks if James could sleep with her to get him in front of EC and MT in the opening credits. They loved him. And as soon as he started becoming popular, they turned their opinions around.
And that annoys me. I liked the recaps a lot. I read them every week without fail and one of my best friends printed out every one and gave them to me as a birthday present a few years ago.
I am not saying that they should love & adore the character and that they should cater their recaps to match my thoughts and feelings about Buffy, Angel, Spike et al. That's ridiculous. And they have every right to hate the character (Lord knows there is reason to hate Spike). But it feels so false to me. Like as soon as Riley left they needed a new scapegoat and Spike/JM filled the space.
This isn't all that coherent. And I have nothing against the TWoP recappers. I just can't agree with anything that is written about the ME shows at the site (in the forums as well. They got rid of the bitterness thread because the whole freaken' Buffy and Angel Forums are just bitter, bitter, bitter. For some reason the first three seasons are idealized and people seem to refuse to see anything good in the fourth through seventh season.
And, with all due respect, there were some crappy episodes in the first three seasons. And there were some excellent episodes in last four. And the whole TWoP mindframe of "terrible until proven otherwise" pisses me off. Yes, it was (and is) a website that focused on snark (it's their motto, for frank's sake), but there is a difference between fun snark and flat out bitter diatribes. It just isn't worth it anymore.
And that rant ended up in a whole different place that it started.
My main point was: The ME mods all used to love and adore Spike. Now they all despise them. And I'm not quite sure why. I thought they were recapping for the fans. Now I don't know who they're recapping for.
