"All hail the Glow Cloud," seems appropriate at the moment.

"I like the taste of steak! Don’t take it awaaaay!" hahahahaha took the words right out of my mouth.

RIP - TWoP you will be missed!!

RIP - TWoP you will be missed...

{puts fingers in ears and closes eyes}
Lalalalalala
Dramabeans will ALWAYS be here

I think the old recaps are staying up for the time being, at least. And there are various people working to preserve different shows or writers. It's really a huge loss though. TWoP helped define television culture as something important -- something with important things to say. And it was a great place to snark back to it in turn.

Soompi just had its sweet 16 recently. And I'm looking forward to Dramabeans', too.

I can't believe TWoP is closing. It kills me! It's where I fell in love with recaps and snarky ness. It's where I fell in love with Buffy and Alias and a ton of other shows by reading their fabulous recaps. It's so sad.

This must NEVER happen with Dramabeans! EVER!

I'd be interested in hearing some of the quibbles javabeans had with TWoP. :-)

The site played an important role in my TV-watching experience as well, but I just gradually drifted away from it. Usually I appreciated all of the snark, but sometimes the recappers let their prejudice against certain characters or even the entire show take over to the point where I just wanted them to either take a step back and regain a measure of emotional distance or just drop it altogether, and not let their antipathy overwhelm every page.

But for the most part, the writers were amazing, and I loved distinguishing their various styles. For instance, I remember finding Jacob Clifton's Gossip Girl recaps hysterically overblown considering their subject matter. He'd go off on these drawn-out tangents, assigning way too much philosophical significance to what was happening, and I was half-torn between admiring that he could magnify some trivial catfight of breakup into something earth-shatteringly profound and illuminating (and with such eloquence), and just being like: "Dude, it's Gossip Girl. The writing and characters aren't nearly as deep as you're giving them credit for."

Oh noes! The end of TWoP is really the end of an era. That site allowed me to view TV through a different lens. Sigh.

Just FYI, I never went to TWOP but if you're still looking for intelligent, thoughtful reviews of American (and some British) television, the AV Club is a viable option. The writers there definitely LOVE TV and generally know what they're talking about. Like here, I'm always a bit bummed if they're not reviewing a show I watch.

That being said, I understand that feeling, albeit to a lesser degree.

Sometimes the internet growth is scary. I mean few years back I could live without internet but nowadays I'll be mad if I can't connected to it. Data, cloud computing, etc all in the internet. All seems so real but it's actually not and we become more dependent to the internet. On the other side, without internet we won't have Dramabeans. Now I'm dreaded to think otherwise...

TWoP is closing shop?! Ackkk! It was the first site to highlight snark - hilarious while cutting like a scalpel. The recappers were priceless, my favorite being Erin the Red Head with her Alias recaps. I still go to the Archives and just pick an ep for the joy of the read, CloneSloan, SpyDaddy & Clifford, the red ball of doom. Linda Holmes was also an excellent recapper at TWoP. I seem to recall her leaving shortly after the dreaded buyout when many of the founding recappers jumped ship. Linda went to NPR and created Monkey See. She's one of the sharpest writers around and as funny as ever.
An era has passed with the closing of TWoP. Sigh.........

cosign this completely. Linda had and excellent post about it and her podcast PCHH is amazing, makes me realize the best writers have moved on from TWop which is semi comforting.

farewell, twop.

on a lighter note, adorable picture. her notebook is so cute!! it's so tiny though, she'd go blind using that thing.

Hm never heard of Television Without Pity until now. I checked it out just now, but boy am I'm glad to say that you guys here at Dramabeans write a way better recap than all the ones I skimmed over at the other site.

I JUST WANT TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT I GREATLY ADMIRE YOUR WRITING AND ANALYTICAL SKILLS! <3

I used to read that site but after discovering Asian dramas again I stopped going since most of what they talked about just didn't interesting me anymore.

I just want to say that I hope in 7 years you guys will still be around and dramabeans will be more popular than ever before because I don't know what I would do.without this site and your recaps and all the beanies who contribute to convos. I.love you guys!!