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Do you find you experience dramas differently when you have to recap it? How do you balance recap-drama commentary and non (ex. on tumblr) commentary? Have you had trouble w/ time crunches when following the recap schedule (7 hrs 2x a week is a lot of time!)?

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I feel like I’m giving an interview or something with all these recapping questions.

Let’s see…

Do you find you experience dramas differently when you have to recap it?

Kinda. I’m forced to pay closer attention to details more than I normally would when I’m just watching it (which is when I discovered that I don’t really like rom-coms when I have to recap them, because I was previously unaware how often I skim over the parts that bore me. You may note that I rarely recap rom-coms any more). I also am more aware of the outside perception of a drama. I self-select and cloister myself with like-minded people here on tumblr, so seeing other people’s reactions to a show is sometimes… fun. Yeah, we’ll say fun.

Although, there have been a few times when I’ve recapped a show I probably would have passed on if left to my own devices, and it turned out to be one of my favorite shows of the year, so that’s always a nice bonus.

How do you balance recap-drama commentary and non (ex. on tumblr) commentary?

I don’t really engage much on here about a show I’m recapping, mostly because I spend so much time and brain-effort on that show the last thing I want to do is talk about it elsewhere. There are some exceptions – I was brought on to CBA late, after I’d already started squeeing about it here. But while I’ll still reblog gifsets, I probably won’t have a lot of text posts about it any more. I also don’t typically go into the tag of a show I’m working on because I like my opinion of the show to be my opinion, y’know? I try not to read anyone else’s reactions until after I’ve submitted the recap.

Have you had trouble w/ time crunches when following the recap schedule (7 hrs 2x a week is a lot of time!)?

It’s really only 7 hours once a week, since a show is often split between two recappers. And YES! It’s hard maintaining a balance sometimes when work gets busy or family stuff happens and then I’m scrambling to meet the deadline. (You’ll note I rarely ever work on the odd-numbered episodes. That’s for a reason.) For anyone who grumbles about why shows aren’t up the same day they air, well, the minions have a life – we have jobs, we go to school, we have family who like to see us and friends we like to hang out with. Oh, and sleep is nice, too.