Recapping
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Recapping is the art of writing a detailed scene-by-scene analysis of a television episode, movie, play, or book, complete with the personal opinions and observations of the writer. Frequently, these observations will be humorous, and contain a great deal of sarcasm (usually referred to in recapping circles as snark
Snark
-Fictional creatures:* Snark , a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark * Snark , fictional small, bug-like species of alien used as a weapon...

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Websites that post recaps almost always limit themselves to recapping television shows, though there are a number of sites that recap movies. Sites that recap television shows include Television without Pity (the site generally credited with popularizing the art form), Recapist, Midseason Replacements, Too Much Free Time and TVgasm. Sites that recap movies include The Agony Booth, The Movie Spoiler, Jabootu and Filmsite.org
Filmsite.org
FilmSite.org is a website operated by Tim Dirks since 1996, and owned by AMC since 2008. It contains over 300 reviews of what Dirks judges to be the "greatest films" of all time. In some cases, the review is scene-by-scene. It also contains many other pages offering an introduction to cinema...

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Origins

Contrary to popular belief, recapping did not originate with the internet. Instead, recaps, or episode summaries from a fan-based perspective, would often appear in fandom 'zines, traded at conventions or read aloud to an audience.
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