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I thought the bulk of the episode, the action stuff, was tolerable. A bit... too much? I dunno. Everything else was perfect. Great send off for Troy, honest/realistic emotions all around. I loving love Community.
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I wish instead of a cover of Come Sail Away they had played a cover of the Reading Rainbow song. Great episode.
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Spacebump posted:I wish instead of a cover of Come Sail Away they had played a cover of the Reading Rainbow song. Great episode. Or the opening of Star Trek TNG.
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Atticus Finch posted:I thought the bulk of the episode, the action stuff, was tolerable. A bit... too much? I dunno. It did veer dangerously close to Season 4's "going through the motions but at a surface level only" level, but the way the ending played out almost made it feel like that was deliberate. The end definitely outweighed any quibbles I had with the first half, though, it was a really good send off.
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I kinda had a going through the motions problem at first, but then I realized the episode was supposed to be parodying itself there.
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Max posted:Yeah, honestly, the prize this time just felt like a reason for the school to go bonkers again, and was then ignored. The only person to mention it is Buzz. No one else really seems to care about it specifically, the way they did with the Paintball prizes. When you think about it though, this is a school that has gotten swept up in three different paintball games, a giant pillow fort, another giant pillow/blanket fort and the following war, and a riot over an A-. It kinda makes sense that at this point the student body is just waiting for reasons to do stuff like this.
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Mo0 posted:It did veer dangerously close to Season 4's "going through the motions but at a surface level only" level, but the way the ending played out almost made it feel like that was deliberate. As I posted earlier, I think the "going through the motions" feel was very deliberate. It helped to set Britta's re-emergence as a rational being apart as well as made sense as Abed's going away send-off.
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Nah I don't think it was deliberate. Anyway I had a "oh another one of these" feeling at first too but then it won me over with all the different terms for and ways of moving around.
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Irish Joe posted:Done. Accepted.
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El Tortuga posted:When you think about it though, this is a school that has gotten swept up in three different paintball games, a giant pillow fort, another giant pillow/blanket fort and the following war, and a riot over an A-. It kinda makes sense that at this point the student body is just waiting for reasons to do stuff like this. I mean before the A- Riot,
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Jan 25, 2014 03:52
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The interaction between Britta, Troy, and Abed really made me sad that they totally bypassed Britta and Troy dating.
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Mexcillent posted:The interaction between Britta, Troy, and Abed really made me sad that they totally bypassed Britta and Troy dating. That was always a dumb thing to have happened so it's best forgotten.
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Fast Luck posted:Nah I don't think it was deliberate. Did you watch the episode on mute? While in a different room? Abed started a campus-wide game of gimmick-episode because he couldn't cope with change. Like, it wasn't subtle at all.
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Well that certainly was one of the finer episodes I've seen of this show. Jonathan Banks is amazing 
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Just rewatched this episode and I missed Duncan's "My self-published novels aren't going to publish themselves!" line the first time around. Good stuff.
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ultramiraculous posted:I mean before the A- Riot, During the A- Riot, while other students has chairs and binders, Real Neil has board with nails sticking out of it. Dude clearly is just looking for a reason.
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That was superb. Just really funny, and made great use of a premise that at first blush sounded tough to get right.
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El Tortuga posted:During the A- Riot, while other students has chairs and binders, Real Neil has board with nails sticking out of it. Dude clearly is just looking for a reason. By putting nails in his board he upgraded his club to a spiked club, going from a d6 to a d8. Dude knows how to do some damage.
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Victor Vermis posted:Did you watch the episode on mute?
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Fast Luck posted:I don't know what we're talking about, I guess. I know Abed did that. I was replying to the posters saying the episode was being intentionally bad and going through the motions on a surface level only as satire, or something. Um, that's exactly what he is saying. I guess I am having a hard time trying to make it clearer: the episode was about being afraid of new things so you do a hollow version of old things to try to desperately cling to the past. If it was something awesome and new and not just a remix of something old it wouldn't thematically make sense. I don't think the episode was necessarily bad but I think it felt like things were zipping through and we were always on the verge of wrapping things up. I think it's less "intentionally bad" and more "obviously a shameless callback (but still potentially fun in its own right)".
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superjew posted:By putting nails in his board he upgraded his club to a spiked club, going from a d6 to a d8. Dude knows how to do some damage. But he also changed his damage type from blunt to piercing, and how is he going to fight the undead with piercing damage?
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Demiurge4 posted:But he also changed his damage type from blunt to piercing, and how is he going to fight the undead with piercing damage? Luckily there's Hector the Well-Endowed to handle any kind of blunt damage.
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It's nice to see Britta is still capable of being smart and reasonable while still goofy. It reminds me of Season Two-era Britta. I guess she just spent the last couple season really high all the time.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:55
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My new Criminology professor looks and sounds just like Hickey. Jonathan Banks was A+ casting.
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This was definitely my favorite "paintball" episode.
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Guy A. Person posted:Um, that's exactly what he is saying. I guess I am having a hard time trying to make it clearer: the episode was about being afraid of new things so you do a hollow version of old things to try to desperately cling to the past. If it was something awesome and new and not just a remix of something old it wouldn't thematically make sense.
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Fast Luck posted:No, the episode was about Abed being afraid to let go and say goodbye, so he wanted to play this game with Troy, and to continue it as long as possible so as to remain in denial. It wasn't about doing a "hollow version of old things," the lava game wasn't supposed to be hollow or bad, it was supposed to be fun (but part of Abed's denial, hence Britta's role). You're not wrong. But there's definitely a layer of self-awareness there in regards to gimmick episodes. Playing "find the meta" is optional, as it (probably) should be.
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Fast Luck posted:No, the episode was about Abed being afraid to let go and say goodbye, so he wanted to play this game with Troy, and to continue it as long as possible so as to remain in denial. It wasn't about doing a "hollow version of old things," the lava game wasn't supposed to be hollow or bad, it was supposed to be fun (but part of Abed's denial, hence Britta's role). Those things aren't contradictory... Yes it was about Abed being afraid to let go and say goodbye, so he tried to bribe his friend by doing the type of fun thing they used to do together. It was "hollow" (note: hollow is not a synonym for bad) in the sense that it wasn't something that arose organically, he was trying to engineer something to keep Troy around forever (he says this). And Abed towards the end didn't find it fun, he himself saw the lava as a metaphor for his world ending.
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Rhinoceraptor posted:It's nice to see Britta is still capable of being smart and reasonable while still goofy. It reminds me of Season Two-era Britta. I guess she just spent the last couple season really high all the time. I thought season 2 Britta was the worst. It's like they had no idea what to do with her.
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Rhinoceraptor posted:It's nice to see Britta is still capable of being smart and reasonable while still goofy. It reminds me of Season Two-era Britta. I guess she just spent the last couple season really high all the time. She was the canary for gas leak year.
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Personperson14 posted:I thought season 2 Britta was the worst. It's like they had no idea what to do with her. Community's had a lot of turnover on the writing staff over the seasons, and early on the female writers at the time, like Hilary Winston and Liz Cackowski, were credited for aspects of Britta's early voice. They left after the first year, and Britta floated to a sillier place because Gillian Jacobs can make it work.
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Personperson14 posted:I thought season 2 Britta was the worst. It's like they had no idea what to do with her. Was she? I mostly remember her getting really stupid in season 3.
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Rhinoceraptor posted:Was she? I mostly remember her getting really stupid in season 3. Well she wasn't stupid, but she didn't really do anything or have many great moments in season 2.
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I got a real Waterworld vibe from Hickey this episode. I also liked how dumb the whole thing was, and how invested everyone got. Like the jargon for their movement techniques and how punk everyone was.
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Thing is, I loved silly goony bird Britta from s2-3. You can argue that it's flatter characterization but Jacobs was so good at it. "Rowboat Cop" alone, man,
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was the season 3 opener Harmon's indirect 'gently caress you' to NBC's 'notes' on the show? http://youtu.be/MHMkT_p7Xfc
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Dead Snoopy posted:was the season 3 opener Harmon's indirect 'gently caress you' to NBC's 'notes' on the show? ...indirect?
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Does Community exist in a universe where weed is now legal?
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Pudgygiant posted:Does Community exist in a universe where weed is now legal? Why?
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