Opinions on the Dan Harmon news?

[girl_wonder]

Well, flist? Opinions on the Dan Harmon/Community news? I find tumblr to be a place of increasingly scary tinhattery.

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[bunnymcfoo]

I'm totally in a holding pattern. To be completely frank, I wasn't expecting to GET any more Community at all, so I'm not as upset by this as I could be - like, yes, the next 13 episodes might suck. But they weren't episodes I was ever counting on anyway, so whatevs. And hey, they might be FINE.

Also, I'm one of the people who thinks that the show went a little off the rails this season. I mean, don't get me wrong! I loved a TON of the individual episodes, but I HAAAATED the Chang storyline, for instance, and didn't enjoy the season over-all the way I did previous seasons. It's kind of like Buffy S6 - I loved a few individual episodes and I still loved the characters, I just....didn't like the overall story arc. I guess I'm actually kind of hopeful that new influences might tone some of that wigginess down and tighten the focus again?

[girl_wonder]

YES. I mean, I love Community a lot, but this season was not without it's duds and flaws. And the Chang thing... I liked it when he was their whacky teacher, crazy from power not from... actual mental disorders. I feel like ex-security guard saying, "Listen, you guys, this man has an actual mental disorder and needs help, he doesn't need to be enabled."

I think that the things I love about Community can definitely be done in a more "general viewer" friendly way. Which is to say, I don't think the criticisms that Community is weird just to be weird or is off putting to a lot of viewers are undeserved.

I'm very, very wait and see. Because if Community turns into a Big Bang knock off, then I'm out, but if it's still funny then I'm still there.

[bunnymcfoo]

I think the absolute peak of Chang funniness was when we met his brother -- because Rabbi Chang mocking Senor Chang was hysterical in a brilliant and unexpected way.

if Community turns into a Big Bang knock off, then I'm out, but if it's still funny then I'm still there

THIS EXACTLY. I was going to say that at the end of the day I'm here for Troy and Abed and Annie in the moooorning, but that's not really true. I love the show a LOT and I'm super fond of the supporting characters and the whole...I don't know. The whole idea of Greendale. I don't want to lose the meta overtones (oh god, I really don't - the L&O episode made me laugh so fucking hard. And the Omar shout-out! I just. <3 <3 <3) but I do agree with you that the show can be too much and kind of off-putting at times. I wouldn't have stuck with it, I don't think, if I'd started this season.

[girl_wonder]

Oh, man, Rabbi Chang and Sr. Chang were SO FABULOUS. And that's where we got the windmill joke, omg. I'd forgotten how FUNNY it was.

The meta is part of what I love, but most of what I love is the characters - and I think a lot of that is the actors. Pudi and Glover and Brie. They bring Abed and Troy and Annie to life. Those characters are why I tune in every week.

[girl_wonder]

That's my feeling, too. I have to believe that Chase is not a big enough star to have that sort of pull. In all honesty, he hasn't been funny in a long time and you definitely get the impression he's playing Pierce for the money.

[girl_wonder]

Yeah, after trash talking the show. :/ I think both of them acted really immaturely there.