Nail in the coffin?
Subtitled: Ahahaha, TWoP.

Sub-subtitled: "I found myself starting to post this in the comments, bitchslapped myself, and retreated back to my own JF in shame and minor arousal."

(Sub-sub-subtitled: "I have a big-ass bandaid on my middle finger, so typing's gonna be a bitch and a half.")

So, TWoP. What up? You know how indie kids are always all, "Oh woe, my favorite band is popular, so they suck now!" and we mock and laugh at them for it? I totally feel that way about TWoP, which means I have to mock and laugh at myself, which is maybe not as new an experience as you might think. But I have logic! Sort of! Because, Way Back In The Day (damnkidsgetoffmylawn), TWoP was this small thing that was, like, property of the internet. Maybe I'm weird, but I get all twitchy when the real world starts creeping into my online experience. Like, when TWoP started getting actual print news coverage, that's my cue to back away slowly. Also-- well, I don't know, maybe they were all stuffed up each other's asses back then too, but the rampaging superiority complexes (complexii? complectes?) were less obvious. And most importantly? They used to be funny.

Now they're Real World Famous, they're corporate or summat, they're clearly raging self-righteous dicks, and they are not funny. I used to collect crack-my-shit-up quotes from the various recaps. (In fact, they're right over here, complete with my "squee!twop!" fangirl header.) Now they're just... I don't know what the hell they're doing, but when I've stopped laughing and started rolling my eyes and making loud, exasperated sounds, the Magic is Gone.

The comment that got me almost-tl;dr-ing over at CW: "Thank goodness. Because 'The West Wing' is no longer in production and therefore I no longer frequent TWOP. If 'In Justice' or '3lbs' had been picked up, I might have been in trouble."

They cover a lot of my favorite shows. (Not all, granted, and once upon a time I would've cried over the lack of NCIS recaps, but now I consider it a blessing.) That's kind of the problem. Their recaps sap all the fucking joy out of the shows. Not because the recappers are OMGMEEN, but because they just suck.

Off the top'a my head:

Farscape: OH MY GOD JACOB SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Doctor Who: See above. How the hell did this humorless twat end up in charge of my favorite cracked-out sci-fi shows? (And what the hell is someone who hates Terry Pratchett doing recapping DW in the first place?)

House: Is Sara M. still doing the recaps? I vaguely remember her being booted. Whoever's doing them now, they're not outright offensive to my delicate sensibilities, just... unmemorable, I guess. With a show that gives such great fodder for snark, you'd think they'd do better. Also, "Cottages" kinda sets my teeth on edge, because it's non-intuitive (took me about five minutes of "whaaa?" to get the reference, but maybe I'm just dumb like that) and because Sara M. obviously started calling 'em Cottages because it was someone else on the forums who came up with "Ducklings," not an Almighty Recapper, and that just wouldn't do (or maybe I'm just paranoid and crotchety like that).

Supernatural: Oh, Demian, Demian, Demian. We really, really don't care about your flaming gay-as-fuck pet demon Raoul. And your virulent, kneejerk hatred of all things heterosexual is really starting (starting?) to grate. And that's as far as I'm willing to go on that subject without descending knee-deep into the splooge.

Veronica Mars: Couch Baron's one of the most tolerable of the lot, but having Rob Thomas's tongue wedged so firmly up his ass is really starting to sour me on the show in general, and especially the recaps-- how many "shoutout!"s can you take, really? Especially when there's a good chance at least half of them really are shoutouts. Urgh. Even typing the word is enough to give me hives now.

Dude. Guys. YOU USED TO BE FUNNY. Now you're just a) meanspirited (which is FINE, don't get me wrong, as long as you're also FUNNY, which you're NOT), b) fawning, c) unamusingly random (to accomplish amusingly random, learn from the fine example of djb), d) pompous and long-winded (yes, Jacob, I am LOOKING AT YOU), e) totally and completely missing the point (see: Demian's latest SPN recap, some House recaps that I'm sure m_butterfly could gladly point out), or f) some tragic and bloody combination of the above.

Yeah, being purchased by Bravo ain't gonna kill the site. For all practical purposes (i.e., as far as I'M concerned, which is clearly all that matters), it's already a lumbering corpse.