Saturday, August 18, 2007

convergence: great writing on the internet about television.

surprises me that I did not find that alrdy on dlww (searched: convergence. int hits. not that one.) since I esp like and am int in how great the web is for writing about tv. good writing.
I dlc marked this last November, the month of the post
z0611 tele-v a-before and a-before? not a. again that makes it seem like I had put this somewhere... but seems not, so here:

That’s What I Like: Television Without Pity | Medialoper Nov06:
TWoP started off as a web recontextualization of the (future TWIL) Mystery Science Theatre 3000 I suppose this is where the show is framed on the screen and you see two people in lower corner, watching & commenting concept: witty people desonstructing bad art, in this case, Dawson’s Creek.
However, founders Sara Bunting, Tara Ariano and David Cole Glark obviously realized that they had hit upon a unique form of convergence: great writing on the internet about television. To me, the great writing is the key. There are lots of recaps out there of various TV shows. There is also a lot of well-written TV criticism out there, but the writers at TWoP have mastered the art of tying detailed recaps with critical insights. And, despite the official “spare the snark, spoil the networks” ethos, their dirty little secret is that they get that TV can, is, and should be an art form like any other.

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