(no subject)

[ivyology]

Ugh.

Okay, there are things I will always hate about television without pity, just like there are things I will always love, like Jacob's recaps and the Heroes boards.

In the "hate" list, Demian's recaps have always  been high up - he's not funny, he just hates the show he's recapping.  Which is fine for him, and I get that the point of twop recaps is to be critical, but hate =/= criticism OR humor, kthnx.  (I also hate the supernatural boards because he posts on them - I much prefer recappers who don't.  Otherwise you get half a group of people who kiss the recapper's ass for his omigod total wit and cleverness, and half a group who feel like they can't state a dissenting opinion.  So yeah.  Already disinclined to like him.)

But when he repeatedly calls a character (who, for the record, had a Brooklyn accent but no other obviously identifying ethnic background) a dago and wop for the omg funny?  DIE, asshole.

Even better!  The response by a head twop person to an emailed complaint by another reader?  "The terms were used ironically, in order to point up the extremely stereotypical nature of the character -- Demian was drawing attention to negative stereotyping, not perpetrating it. Please reread the recap." (found: http://winterlive.livejournal.com/399087.html?format=light)

Um, yeah.  Bite me.

Comments

[whiteotter.livejournal.com]

What bugs me even more is that a thread was created wherein people could leave their distaste for the use of the word in the recap, someone posted it in the episode discussion thread (which is where people usually post their glowing adoration of the recap, so there's certainly precedent), and - get this - the other moderator EDITED THE POST to remove the information.

I mean, Jesus. Censor feedback so we don't spoil the delicate baby recappers' egos, I guess.