tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post1144967381505974170..comments2023-04-12T04:27:36.822-05:00Comments on A Gut Reaction: Figgy's List of Grievances. Today: TWOP's Jacob.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-71607651799527268102013-08-06T23:03:59.340-05:002013-08-06T23:03:59.340-05:00Old thread, I know, but I can't resist adding ...Old thread, I know, but I can't resist adding an Amen! The big problem with Jacob is that he is not anywhere near as smart, insightful, or original as he seems to think he is. So pretentious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-55984772125831523872011-12-05T00:15:59.119-06:002011-12-05T00:15:59.119-06:00Thank God I'm not the only one that hates Jaco...Thank God I'm not the only one that hates Jacob's recaps. How can he find so much hidden meaning in shows like 'Weeds' and 'Gossip Girl'?? What a pompous gasbag!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-49254060083314315172011-10-01T13:43:58.384-05:002011-10-01T13:43:58.384-05:00Oh, I am SO GLAD to find a whole community of peop...Oh, I am SO GLAD to find a whole community of people who despise that pseudo-intellectual little vermin. I mean, I always assumed there was, but god forbid people actually be allowed to directly criticize a recapper on the TVWoP forums.<br />By far one of my best internet moments this year was his bitchy little 'I quit' on the Doctor Who forum back in the spring. With that, all the shows I follow on the site are officially Jacob-free. I can't be TOO content, though, because I know he's still out there, mouse and keyboard in hand. One day I'll start reading a recap of a beloved show and wonder why two pages have gone by discussing the deeper psych- and socio- logical ramifications of the title sequence with no actual recap of the episode itself yet, and then I'll look up at the top of the screen, and <i>he'll be there</i>!Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-38325976934703125132011-09-08T08:58:19.357-05:002011-09-08T08:58:19.357-05:00OMFG, the recap for the finale of True Blood, Seas...OMFG, the recap for the finale of True Blood, Season 1 (yes, I'm a bit behind). 5, yes FIVE, pages of complete and utter crap before any actual mention of the episode. Jacob was obviously stoned when he wrote it and totally up his own arse.<br /><br />I see that he has continued to recap True Blood and is still recapping the lastest season. Fuck that! I wish they'd get someone else do re-recap them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-42909780365018655812011-08-20T02:19:34.613-05:002011-08-20T02:19:34.613-05:00Also, I would just like to add that I am one of th...Also, I would just like to add that I am one of the many people who googled Jacob TWoP hate and found this amazing post. So happy I did. You should also all know that the second search result if you type in jacob TWoP after Twitter is hate. Haha.Marcelahttp://www.cargocollective.com/marcelahuertanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-85185175709741006972011-08-20T02:01:20.992-05:002011-08-20T02:01:20.992-05:00JESUS CHRIST I'm so glad I found this. I was j...JESUS CHRIST I'm so glad I found this. I was just getting into Pretty Little Liars and about halfway through the first season the reviews start being written by Jacob and it has happened with EVERY SINGLE guilty-pleasure show I've ever had. It ruins it for me. <br /><br />I usually watch the show along with reading the recaps because it's like watching it with some cool sassy friend who also thinks it's hilarious and secretly kind of good. But with Jacob it's like talking to that crazy person at the bus stop who smells like beer and patchouli and says he went to Oxford when really he lives in a box across the street.<br /><br />How is he still working at TWoP? He is the one reason I've stopped going to that website, and every time I get back into it he takes over my fucking shows! Has no one ever complained to the mods or is it just impossible to get rid of him?Marcelahttp://www.cargocollective.com/marcelahuertanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-11431626681743357902011-08-16T13:51:42.334-05:002011-08-16T13:51:42.334-05:00I've had some personal contact with Jacob, and...I've had some personal contact with Jacob, and let me tell you, he is just as petty and spiteful and full of himself as you might imagine.<br /><br />Particularly classy is how he has been using his True Blood recaps to take potshots at forum posters who were upset by the "Hotshot Rapes Jason Stackhouse" storyline. He is a forum legend for rude, dismissive, and offensive attacks on people, and for wielding the banhammer on anyone who dares respond or protest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-35295668422376548892011-07-25T19:26:25.737-05:002011-07-25T19:26:25.737-05:00I too am a googler :D
I love TWoP so much that wh...I too am a googler :D<br /><br />I love TWoP so much that when the shows I like are on break and I decide to catch up on a show I haven't seen before I will check to see what recaps they do to help me decide. They are the perfect companion to any show.<br /><br />Usually.<br /><br />I love True Blood and it makes me so sad that I am deprived my snark because some pompous jerk wants to spend 5000 pages preaching to me regarding philosophical crap about wich I couldn't care less. I was so dissapointed.<br /><br />I hate Jacob with a passion. So much so that when I was reading a Chuck recap last season, I got about half way past the 2nd page before the frustrating writing style caused a horrifying thought to come over me, Jacob was covering this episode. I turned off the screen. <br /><br />Seriously, I love TWoP for the humorous snark, my faves are Ace, Sep ( Whom I don't believe recap anymore ) Couch Baron, Omar and best of all Demain ( God I love that snarky SOB :D ) Those are the kinds of personality I long to see in my recaps, not some pathetic loser trying to sound smart at the expence of both humor and entertainment. *ends rant* :P<br /><br />Oh well if I can't have True Blood recaps at least I still have Demain making Supernatural even more awesome.<br /><br />But still: Jacob - STFUKaukethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16929628749988755251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-91412192648690348602011-05-26T14:26:28.594-05:002011-05-26T14:26:28.594-05:00can I just add to this hate. I usually love TWOP b...can I just add to this hate. I usually love TWOP but never read Jacob's recaps of any show until I got sucked into Gossip Girl fandom. I read 1 or two Jacob recaplets which weren't tooo offensive. Then, because there haven't been any significant reviews out on Gossip Girl final I decided to check out his entire recap to see what he thought. And Oh my word, you have to read it to believe how awful it was. He take personal digs at fandom (who read his recaps mind you) and pushes a personal agenda so obviously that I found myself wondering how editorial let it past them. It was also extremely offensive if you are aware of the issues many fans have been havign with an interview a gossip girl producer gave out. It followed a scene where Chuck smashes a glass pan behind Blair (after grabbing her and pushing her onto a couch) and the glass that shatters cutting her. In the interview, the cut is referred to a 'a perfect dainty little injury' which is a symbol of something ... and then the interview goes on to talk about how Chuck is a romantic hero (ala Rhett Butler) and Safran, producer og GG says, it is not abuse when it is Chuck and Blair. Fandom erupted, because many thought the writers were deliberately portraying this borderline abusive relationship (some argue that it has been emotionally abusive since season 1) and there would be repercussions for the characters and acknowledgement on the show that his kind of relationship is unhealthy. The fact that this was not the case was not the issue, but the fact that the producer said that it is not abusive in an interview was, he was spouting classic excuses used by people in abusive relationships and this is what fandom (and myself) took offense to. It is a fat that media influences in a pervasive way and seeing these kinds of relationships excused as epic romantic love cannot be healthy for young impressionable fans. The sad thing is that Jacob, in a vitriolic, personal attack at people who hold this opinions tried to silence our opinion on this issue on a platform where we had no way to respond and it has made me so angry. He is so unprofessional. Sorry for the long rant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-7567782673948970352011-05-20T02:36:02.605-05:002011-05-20T02:36:02.605-05:00Oh God, I just finished reading Jacob's "...Oh God, I just finished reading Jacob's "recap" of American Idol and just ran straight to Google to see if anyone else feels the same way about this pompous asshole as I do. So many apparently! Seriously, he sucks worse than any recapper there. Funny thing is, in one of TWOP's weekly "fun" articles on the front page (you know, like "Who is TV's Worst Mother? We'll break it down for you!)the comments were just full of Jacob hate. LOL!Selinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-20483602265032954462011-05-17T15:42:50.397-05:002011-05-17T15:42:50.397-05:00Like everyone else, I googled "twop Jacob&quo...Like everyone else, I googled "twop Jacob", wanting to find out if I was alone in my antipathy, and am very pleased to find that I'm not. Most of the shows he writes for I stopped watching a while ago, so I hardly care, but I desperately, desperately wish he would just stay away from Doctor Who.kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-12853361088816512572011-03-17T12:54:18.377-05:002011-03-17T12:54:18.377-05:00Ha! Yes, I am yet another "I hate how Jacob ...Ha! Yes, I am yet another "I hate how Jacob recaps on TWOP" googler. I am so glad I'm not alone! I love the snark at TWOP, but sometimes I also come to read recaps when I've somehow missed an episode of a show I like or haven't watched it yet, or when it's a show I don't normally watch but I'm curious about. And with Jacob, it's like... OMFG will you cut out the psycho-babble and just tell me what happened??? How is it possible to recap a show without even telling people what actually happened during the show? It's insane!Janenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-47630172204268210742011-03-09T05:14:40.518-06:002011-03-09T05:14:40.518-06:00Ahaha! I am dying. Like others above, I googled my...Ahaha! I am dying. Like others above, I googled my way here after finding myself screaming at my screen once more. I had mostly quit TWoP altogether, because Jacob seemed to recap all the shows I like. (Have moved on to TVgasm now - much better.) <br /><br />Every now and then I start watching something new and I go back. I actually managed to forget about Jacob and I popped in to see if TWoP was recapping the US Shameless. I read merrily along until I got to, "If she didn't know before, she knows now: It's the wolves. He's one of them." My head literally went, "Oh, fuck. Jacob," while my heart sank.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-56449599787274404482011-01-21T00:27:41.204-06:002011-01-21T00:27:41.204-06:00You're still getting comments because he still...You're still getting comments because he still sucks like a black hole. <br /><br />Like others, I just googled "TWOP Jacob" after attempting to read his recap of the Doctor Who Christmas special (and taking longer to read the first five pages than it took to watch the freaking hour and 20 minute long show)and this was the first thing that popped up. And not to be all TWoP forum poster about it but ITA. He's beyond insufferable. Too bad every show I'd like to read recaps of is recapped by that pretentious douchecanoe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-10993025673941858742011-01-14T03:07:19.405-06:002011-01-14T03:07:19.405-06:00thank you
thank you so much
the sad thing is when ...thank you<br />thank you so much<br />the sad thing is when Jacob is on point he's ON POINT - hilarious and all the stuff TWoP is supposed to be, but I swear he's lost the plot. I don't have time to watch tv, so I go there to catch up on GG and I read maybe five pages out of his 78. <br />Okay, we get it, some characters have some depth, but he finds so much meaning in Serena Van der Woodsen it blows my mind every time. it honestly makes my chest hurt. <br />youve put what I couldn't into words, so thank you, so so much.<br />hes started doing pretty little liars and so far so good, but we'll seeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-8165047536980712242010-08-17T18:54:54.221-05:002010-08-17T18:54:54.221-05:00Yes! Thank you. As a non native speaker I really h...Yes! Thank you. As a non native speaker I really hoped for insightful BSG recaps and I tried and tried to come to terms with them, but I couldn't. Especially his "poetic mode" made me irrationally angry. I almost felt violated reading it. Very strange.tanjanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-65836709262834890652010-06-25T11:10:01.890-05:002010-06-25T11:10:01.890-05:00I'm with you all on the Jacob hate. I just goo...I'm with you all on the Jacob hate. I just googled "Jacob" "TWOP" and "pretentious" and found this lovely blog! I've been reading recaps on TWOP (MBTV) since they first started. I can't believe how awful his recaps are. Plus he gets all my favourite shows. First he ruined Battlestar Galactica and now he is ruining True Blood. Please TPTB kick his ass out and get someone with a sense of humour to recap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-32460588010854647422010-06-25T10:54:32.914-05:002010-06-25T10:54:32.914-05:00I hardly enjoy TWOP anymore because Jacob is, firs...I hardly enjoy TWOP anymore because Jacob is, first and foremost, incredibly longwinded and overwrought. Why his editors indulge him is beyond me.<br /><br />Secondly, Jacob is the epitome of the kind of person who is undoubtedly intelligent, has probably suffered because of it, and now steadfastly refuses to accept anything less than a solid gold star for anything that he says or does. He's the dark side of geekdom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-80690869302477468132010-06-15T16:03:54.818-05:002010-06-15T16:03:54.818-05:00Ha, like almost everyone else, I googled "hat...Ha, like almost everyone else, I googled "hate" "jacob" and "true blood" and came to this. Why would they have someone do recaps who isn't funny?! I'm sure there's a place for it, but not on that site!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-87724473192525335362010-05-16T18:38:58.606-05:002010-05-16T18:38:58.606-05:00Wow, I can't believe I'm still getting com...Wow, I can't believe I'm still getting comments on this. <br /><br />I've stopped reading his recaps entirely, but I think I'll take a look again when "True Blood" comes back, see if he's changed even the slightest bit. Then I can do a follow-up. Though from all the comments here, he's still as bad as ever.Figgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02184918452901834604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-62299259398771875432010-05-16T15:01:02.075-05:002010-05-16T15:01:02.075-05:00I'm another of those people who just Googled s...I'm another of those people who just Googled something about hating Jacob. Since you aren't allowed to hate Jacob on the TWoP forums (more on that later) I'm glad I found this blog post where I know I'm not alone.<br /><br />I used to just be mildly annoyed about Jacob's stuff. His long-winded descriptions about how the TARDIS in Doctor Who is the ultimate symbol of dreams and beauty and life on earth and outside earth and heaven and everything ever it might as well be a god worship this blue box, WORSHIP IT, just gave me a chance to exercise my eye-rolling techniques. I love Doctor Who, but <i>good lord</i>. Anyways, I just thought to avoid him forever.<br /><br />Unfortunately, I sidled into a recent "recap" (it was 90% tangents, as usual) of American Idol he'd done, and I noticed that Jacob had gotten just... flat-out <i>vicious</i>. He goes on paragraphs-long rants about how ugly a person is, how horrible a person is, how fake a person is, how stupid a person is. He took a full page to bash Elton John for being a stupid celebrity just <i>pretending</i> to be against things like AIDs because celebrities can't be genuinely against things like that.<br /><br />And in the forums, he's about ten times as hostile to anyone who so much as mentions something he said in his recap in a negative light. After making a potentially (he wouldn't let anyone discuss its nature) racist comment about an American Idol contestant, someone in the forums questioned it and he <i>tore them apart</i>, calling them ignorant, insignificant, worthless, scum of the earth, the whole deal. Because of a one-sentence remark on a comment in his recap.<br /><br />It was bad enough when he was just making stupid, circular reviews about shows, but the bitterness and hostile personality that comes out in his recaps now makes it all so much worse. TWoP, despite its tagline/identity as a "snark site" was never <i>really mean</i>. Many of the shows recapped there were benevolently mocked and riffed on, there was an underlying affection in a lot of the recaps and there was always a unified "guilty-pleasure" atmosphere in the forums while discussing those mocked shows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-28873913459513768962010-05-04T11:12:44.508-05:002010-05-04T11:12:44.508-05:00Thank the stars. I despaired of finding anyone who...Thank the stars. I despaired of finding anyone who thought his overwrought, drivelling meanderings were nigh on impossible to read. Of course, there's plenty under the surface in BSG, but do you have to dig so deep? And so pointlessly?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15832717154930956622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-47996430501964715392010-05-01T11:37:36.283-05:002010-05-01T11:37:36.283-05:00Thank god, some other people hate Jacob as well. I...Thank god, some other people hate Jacob as well. I've tried to read his Doctor Who recaps, and they are completely nonsensical. I don't need 20 pages of rambling and philosophical shit. And I love how if anyone DARES to make a negative comment about the recap, either Jacob or Mars come down on the instigator and rip the person to shreds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-66560236481085699342010-04-14T17:19:59.294-05:002010-04-14T17:19:59.294-05:00I thought it was only me, but I see this is not th...I thought it was only me, but I see this is not the case. Sadly, he recaps some of my favorite shows (BG, True Blood, even American Idol) so I quit TWOP long time ago, I cannot stand him. He does not have a funny bone in his body and he is boring. Doesn't he have an editor or something to stop the crap?Isahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04847332360309792133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863254096032296345.post-35496874640042396642010-04-12T17:05:27.664-05:002010-04-12T17:05:27.664-05:00I too googled for like-minded ppl who can't st...I too googled for like-minded ppl who can't stand Jacob's nonsensical reaps. I've been reading recaps from TV without Pity far years and he is by far the worst writer. His recaps make no sense, and he appears to be in love with his own words. I've given up even trying to read them as it just leaves me frustrated.Blimeynoreply@blogger.com