Inside Voices

So Jacob's recap of Maelstrom went up on TWoP yesterday. Without getting into spoilers for the episode, all I really have to say can be best summed up with, "OMG, shut up you pretentious overblown hack!" I can't believe he gets *paid* to produce such vast quantities of pointless verbal splooge.

I really used to like Jacob's recaps. He had interesting takes on the characters and the plotlines. Somewhere around the point D'Anna Biers swallowed the plotline though, I think he just flat-out lost his mind. First it was the preaching that if we weren't as desperately in love with the Three/Gaius plotline as he was, we were racists (*buh?*). Then it was the prose that got progressively more obscure and overwritten until it literally took me over an *hour* to get through the Maelstrom recap.

I'm not stupid -- I can wax pompous with the best of them even -- but when I'm having to read paragraphs five and six times and I'm *still* not sure what he's trying to say, it's time to back the fuck away from your metaphors and come out of your ivory tower.

( And yet more spoiler-laden thoughts on the episode... )