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speng31b
May 8, 2010

computer parts posted:

People are going to be massively disappointed and the only question is whether it's 3>5>4 or 5>3>4.

Thanks for your neat opinion.

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speng31b
May 8, 2010

PriorMarcus posted:

Were they? For some reason I seem to remember them having another, final year, after Jeff would've graduated.

Either way there were better ways of bringing everyone back other than making them complete failures outside of the school, which feels a little mean and, for a viewer, makes the past four seasons seem kind of pointless.

It's for the whole "repilot" thing. They wanted to be able to come up with something resembling a watchable fresh start for a new viewer while at the same time leaving behind the weird poo poo that Season 4 had done with as little acknowledgment as possible. They way they did it with a time jump and a bunch of implication wasn't great, but was still better than wasting a bunch of time trying to tie up loose ends from S4, especially considering how the bitterness of Dan Harmon trying to do that would have come through in the writing and just caused more drama and speculation.

Honestly I thought the first episode already suffered enough from trying to give everything a new context and also explain what happened between then and now. Better to pollute a little bit of one episode with that and have a strange opening rather than potentially gently caress up the whole season trying to figure out some sort of more elegant transition.

speng31b fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 4, 2014

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