UM - Community Finale
UM
DID - DID THAT REALLY JUST HAPPEN?
INTERNET, CONFIRM THAT I AM STILL IN THE REAL WORLD
DID THAT REALLY ACTUALLY JUST HAPPEN?
ETA: Okay, apparently it did actually just happen. UM.
So, I'm not even completely flailing about the end, because I was already flailing through the whole thing.
This show is just so aware - meta narratives are my favourite in the wooorld, as is continuity, so the callbacks to every character ever made me flip out with glee.
Mostly, I was sitting there going: OMG they genderflipped the love-triangle, where the two dudes fight over the girl but really the fight is more about them and their competition than it is about her, except Jeff is the girl, and it shouldn't really work to do a genderflip like that because we're all so used to stories where the choice is always by the dude, but this still totally worked for me, and I sat there going 'CHOOSE YOURSELF JEFF, CHOOSE YOURSELF' which is my automatic reaction to love-triangles where the object of affection is really just that, an object.
And it doesn't feel out of character for Britta, who does have some kind of feeling for Jeff, to let that get mixed up in her super-competitiveness because come on, this is Britta! SHE LIKES TO WIN.
Basically, I love everyone. TROY AND HIS COOKIE. <3 What a superb, well-written, intelligent season of television.
Further Edited to Add: So, I was uncomfortable with the Trans-jokes, but interpreted Jeff's 'that's more Greendale' comment as hanging a lantern on the offensive of the term and the continuing incompetence of the Dean at recognizing those moments/terms, so that it became a joke about people who use the term, rather than a joke about trans people. Even if that was the intent though, I don't think it actually conveyed that.
The tranny-queen joke was harder to shrug off, and in retrospect, I think I gave the show a lot more benefit of the doubt than it deserved. It's my fun, inclusive, better-at-diversity-than-Glee show, and I don't expect it to punch people in the face with prejudice, so I glossed over that. My privilege, my problem.
So, badly done with the trans-jokes Community.
DID - DID THAT REALLY JUST HAPPEN?
INTERNET, CONFIRM THAT I AM STILL IN THE REAL WORLD
DID THAT REALLY ACTUALLY JUST HAPPEN?
ETA: Okay, apparently it did actually just happen. UM.
So, I'm not even completely flailing about the end, because I was already flailing through the whole thing.
This show is just so aware - meta narratives are my favourite in the wooorld, as is continuity, so the callbacks to every character ever made me flip out with glee.
Mostly, I was sitting there going: OMG they genderflipped the love-triangle, where the two dudes fight over the girl but really the fight is more about them and their competition than it is about her, except Jeff is the girl, and it shouldn't really work to do a genderflip like that because we're all so used to stories where the choice is always by the dude, but this still totally worked for me, and I sat there going 'CHOOSE YOURSELF JEFF, CHOOSE YOURSELF' which is my automatic reaction to love-triangles where the object of affection is really just that, an object.
And it doesn't feel out of character for Britta, who does have some kind of feeling for Jeff, to let that get mixed up in her super-competitiveness because come on, this is Britta! SHE LIKES TO WIN.
Basically, I love everyone. TROY AND HIS COOKIE. <3 What a superb, well-written, intelligent season of television.
Further Edited to Add: So, I was uncomfortable with the Trans-jokes, but interpreted Jeff's 'that's more Greendale' comment as hanging a lantern on the offensive of the term and the continuing incompetence of the Dean at recognizing those moments/terms, so that it became a joke about people who use the term, rather than a joke about trans people. Even if that was the intent though, I don't think it actually conveyed that.
The tranny-queen joke was harder to shrug off, and in retrospect, I think I gave the show a lot more benefit of the doubt than it deserved. It's my fun, inclusive, better-at-diversity-than-Glee show, and I don't expect it to punch people in the face with prejudice, so I glossed over that. My privilege, my problem.
So, badly done with the trans-jokes Community.