TWOP no more
Mar. 27th, 2014 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiTelevision Without Pity is going away.
Weirdly, I expected TWOP to outlive LJ, or at least achieve some form of ongoing archive (like the Brunching Shuttlecocks)
The number of holdovers from the early days of the web continues to drop, and I'd be lying if I pretended I'd been to TWOP in years (I really was there more in the Mighty Big TV days). In this day and age, there are six zillion sites doing snarky recaps, and it's hard to compete*. But it was such a part of early web (or mid-internet) TV fandom, and so critical in the early days of getting well-constructed, entertaining, and insightful discourse about pop culture off the ground, that it's hard to imagine a web without it, even as half the entertainment sites online take their cue from it.
Still, I'll miss Omar recapping Smallville and Strega covering Angel. Those were good times. Here's hoping the Wayback Machine will save them.
*See also the AV Club's note that recapping old shows doesn't generate much buzz; there's a lack of interest in "old" stuff that's in stark contrast to the "every niche has its place" assumptions about the 'net. A person with a free space at their school or on Geocities might devote lots of time and space to, say, Dark Angel, but NBC's not as interested.
Weirdly, I expected TWOP to outlive LJ, or at least achieve some form of ongoing archive (like the Brunching Shuttlecocks)
The number of holdovers from the early days of the web continues to drop, and I'd be lying if I pretended I'd been to TWOP in years (I really was there more in the Mighty Big TV days). In this day and age, there are six zillion sites doing snarky recaps, and it's hard to compete*. But it was such a part of early web (or mid-internet) TV fandom, and so critical in the early days of getting well-constructed, entertaining, and insightful discourse about pop culture off the ground, that it's hard to imagine a web without it, even as half the entertainment sites online take their cue from it.
Still, I'll miss Omar recapping Smallville and Strega covering Angel. Those were good times. Here's hoping the Wayback Machine will save them.
*See also the AV Club's note that recapping old shows doesn't generate much buzz; there's a lack of interest in "old" stuff that's in stark contrast to the "every niche has its place" assumptions about the 'net. A person with a free space at their school or on Geocities might devote lots of time and space to, say, Dark Angel, but NBC's not as interested.