rivkat | Quittin' time (Reply)

I have always understood why people hate Jacob's TWoP reviews. They're excessive and pretentious and just so very messy, so very proud of their overreading, which is why I loved them. I always thought that he basically got why fandom was worth loving. Then I read his most recent Pretty Little Liars recap. (Side note: yay return of show!) And got a couple of pages on why shippers--of all kinds, anyone who doesn't like the way that any show is going with respect to a relationship--are Doing It Wrong. Disappointing enough, because talk about your glass houses, but as best I can tell this is connected, at least in his mind, with something going on in Gossip Girl where some people are mad about a narrative they thought encouraged/excused domestic violence, and he didn't think so because it's just a show and they fought, and therefore feminism is bad. (Not actually all that different from the usual Jacob free association.) Which added a nasty gender component to his anti-shipping. So, you know, I enjoyed his Farscape reviews, but--bye-bye, TWoP.