I watched the Sophie B. Hawkins episode because you guys told me to. It wasn't complete and total agony but it was far, far from good. There was caricature pop culture meme Abed, caricature Keystone Britta, caricature snide Jeff and, as has happened in every single episode of this godforsaken season, an afterschool special level conclusion wherein Jeff feels bad for being bad and makes amends. I suppose I should be glad Pierce was able to open his mouth without a racial slur coming out. Other than that, the only truly bright spot for me was the Dean's Pleasantville outfit.
You can say whatever you want about this season, but the Dean is the best cat namer ever because OMG HE NAMED A CAT FIONA AND THAT IS THE NAME OF ONE OF MY CATS!!!
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Tonight wasn't bad. Very few laugh out loud moments, but the Troy/Abed body switch and the Troy/Britta relationship stuff was a nice mixture of the zany concepts and sincere character stuff that made the show what it is.
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We finished the season. If they renew, then I'll see what happens. I'm not sure how you continue, however, as Jeff has graduated, and everyone else is supposed to be not far behind. I think if they did more timeline hijinks or maybe had the next season take place X years in the future, that might be watchable.
Or it may just be the time to shelve Community and move on to some new ideas.
I'm not terribly opposed to the idea of the show continuing past graduation, but I'm not particularly excited about it either. Hence, "meh", I guess.
Harmon claimed in an interview I read a while back that he chose the name Community because the word has implications outside of a college, and so it didn't limit him to keeping the show set in the college once the main characters would presumably have graduated. Also, it's reportedly another thirteen episode season, so it would likely be more of a season 4.2, covering the second half of the year that just saw its halfway point with Jeff's early graduation.
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Could this happen? Sure. There is almost certainly a universe where Dan Harmon is asked back to be showrunner of the fifth season of Community, despite that sort of situation—a showrunner being fired then asked back a season later—having basically never happened in the history of television. And we mean this in the sense that there is an extremely large but not infinite number of universes and, thus, there is an extremely large but not infinite possible number of universes where this event happens, simply because the laws of quantum physics demand that such a thing be.
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I am going to watch it I think when I get back on Sunday. I’m just going to sit by myself, pop some popcorn and watch it,” he says. “I’m not going to be a jerk about it. I know there were some great writers working on that show who bled with me for seasons one, two and three…the worst thing I can do is fart in their direction at all.
I just said the timelines thing to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
Still busted. If you knew what you were talking about you wouldn't have referred to the timeline in terms if "best", as they were lighter or darker, not better or worse.
I watched season four. I guess I already knew this, but apparently, I'm quite a genius … I think I feel pretty comfortable expressing any kind of 'Eh, not my cup of tea' about it because — this has been expressed a thousand times over — it's obviously not somebody doing what they do and trying very hard to make people happy. It is very much like an impression, and an unflattering one. It's just 13 episodes of 'Oh, I'm Dan Harmon! Derpy, derpy, durr! Die Hard! Durrrrr!' I feel like I'm going back to work tomorrow morning, and I just feel like, 'Do I talk like that?'…. Man, watching those characters without me there is just not fuckin' cool, man. It's like flipping through Instagrams and watching your girlfriend just blow a million [other guys.]
But it's not all bad.
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There's something awesome about having all of those preconceived notions ripped away from you. It's exciting. There's something exciting about being held down and watching your family get raped on a beach. It's liberating. It makes you focus on what's important.
Back in June, we told you that Donald Glover was looking to spend less time at Greendale and more time with Childish Gambino. Well, now it appears to really be happening: Vulture has learned that the actor's reps and Community producer Sony Pictures Television have worked out a new agreement that will see Glover appearing as Troy Barnes in just five of the show's upcoming thirteen episodes, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Maybe this really is the darkest timeline?
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