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Eat This Glob posted:I independently started a rewatch roughly at the same time TVIV did. I forgot about how much better Britta being smart with good motives was compared to making a character "the worst" was. i like when they manage to play both sides successfully, and sometimes they do, but for the most part they really lean into the failure aspects in a way that didn't feel consistent with the series' earlier depiction of her
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:i like when they manage to play both sides successfully, and sometimes they do, but for the most part they really lean into the failure aspects in a way that didn't feel consistent with the series' earlier depiction of her Yeah, she was able to hold her own with a conman lawyer verbally in S1. No one has to be perfect, but she got homer'd in no time
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Yeah she got homered pretty hard. My headcannon is that each chararacter is excentruated by an unreliable narrator. So although she is still smart and level, the zeigeist of the group got annoyed by her being so normal and labeled her the worst. Like how in rl cliques most people end up in their 'place'. Saying that, such a cosy tv show. Thank you Dan Harmon for giving us something to rewatch after endless the office and new girl times.
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May 1, 2020 01:55
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yeah, no argument on a "cozy" tv show. i could roll the dice on any of the episodes popping up at random and odds are good it'll be super enjoyable
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May 1, 2020 02:23
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Seeing this series for the first time, since it has just come to Netflix. I am really enjoying it, and sad I missed it the first time around. Should I just keep myself to the episodes listed so we can talk about those, or is everything available?
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May 2, 2020 15:47
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It’s up to Arist, but imo given that this is a rewatch for most people, talking about later episodes in spoiler tags should be fine?
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May 2, 2020 19:53
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Community's not really a plot-focused show, it's fine.
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May 2, 2020 20:08
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The plot is seeing what gets awakened in the Dean, which is why they needed the full six seasons.
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May 3, 2020 03:08
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Jerusalem posted:The plot is seeing what gets awakened in the Dean, which is why they needed the full six seasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTe2773N9U8
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May 3, 2020 03:12
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Arist posted:Community's not really a plot-focused show, it's fine. Eh, there's some continuity in Season 1 with Professor Slater and Vaughn that could easily cause some confusion if watched out of the intended order. Edit: Almost done with S1. Feels weird that the Schmitty episode and Modern Warfare are back to back. But maybe it just amplifies their status as worst/best of the season. mcbexx fucked around with this message at 05:18 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 03:57
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Yeah, really didn't like the Schmitty episode. But Modern Warfare was fantastic.
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May 3, 2020 06:39
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The Dark Project posted:Yeah, really didn't like the Schmitty episode. But Modern Warfare was fantastic. It is an episode I purposefully skip now, not even the college antics of Troy and Abed can save it. It's really the escape goat of this show
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May 3, 2020 08:21
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mcbexx posted:Eh, there's some continuity in Season 1 with Professor Slater and Vaughn that could easily cause some confusion if watched out of the intended order. Schmitty episode has a great Troy-Abed plot and the scheme to bang the high schooler’s mom is awesome.
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May 3, 2020 18:23
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Saucy_Rodent posted:Schmitty episode has a great Troy-Abed plot and the scheme to bang the high schooler’s mom is awesome. I always laugh at Britta and Jeff's excitement when they realize he has to bang the mom. Similarly Jeff's "I don't know!" in the conspiracy episode. SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 18:48 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 18:45
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The ending of Season 2 episode 5 is wonderfully sweet, with Abed and Shirley holding hands and Jeff realizing he IS Pierce's dad after all 
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We’re onto the third quarter of season 2 now, so here’s part 3 of the Harmon walkthrough. This section has “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons”, which is my single favourite episode of the entire show. It’s so hilarious and emotional and just brilliant. Naturally, Harmon has a story about how the top brass hated it: quote:I was asked not to write the episode, they said “Because it won’t be an accessible topic.” I said, “I appreciate your concern, I’ll make it accessible.” This was the studio, not the network. We spent two days writing it, and we finished it, and we read it through, these two gentlemen and I at Andrew Guest’s house. His girlfriend made us Pop-Tarts and we had a little shot of cognac or something. We’d been up all night. We almost cried because we were like, “God, that was loving hard.” And it was so satisfying. “What a nice little story this is. Let’s get to that table-read.” And we did it. We threaded the needle. We made Dungeons & Dragons accessible. We went and table-read it, and it was a great table-read, people loved it. The director, Joe Russo, was like, “I can’t wait to shoot it. I don’t have any thoughts about how to improve it. I think it’s great.”
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loving hell, I'd completely forgotten about Joshua the magical trampoline guardian being a Nazi.  "It's gonna be a maze!"
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Jerusalem posted:loving hell, I'd completely forgotten about Joshua the magical trampoline guardian being a Nazi. That slays me every time. "Some people are just natural jumpers."
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Just watched the Law and Order spoof ("Basic Lupine Urology"). Absolutely genius. Especially the ending.
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pierce cawing like a crow when he steals abid's food in Paradigms of Human Memory
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May 7, 2020 05:27
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Season ranking: 3>2>1>5>6>4
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May 7, 2020 19:13
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6 is so much better than 5, you guys are crazy
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May 7, 2020 19:17
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nah tho 6 has nothing as good as MeowMeowBeenz, Floor is Lava, or Polygraphy and 5 has nothing as lovely as Recycled Cinema or RV Repair (although the finale comes close).
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maybe i should finally watch seasons 5 and 6 e: i think i like season 3 just a little bit more than season 2. i think season 3 gets a little kookier than it needed to at times, but overall season 2 suffers a little bit from the shirley baby plot being boring. both insanely good seasons of tv, though DOPE FIEND KILLA G fucked around with this message at 21:04 on May 7, 2020 |
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May 7, 2020 21:01
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RV Repair is a great episode, it has a forth wall breaking plot (which I love because Abed is the best character and the true heart of the show), an appearance from Space Elder Britta, and a really hilarious runner at the end. "He's up there somewhere waiting for a better daddy with a bigger hand!"
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:e: i think i like season 3 just a little bit more than season 2. i think season 3 gets a little kookier than it needed to at times, but overall season 2 suffers a little bit from the shirley baby plot being boring. both insanely good seasons of tv, though It really does feel like they didn't know what to do with Shirley sometimes when Yvette Brown was clearly game for anything.
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Important double post: https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1258514710174945280
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Dawgstar posted:Important double post: I wondered why they picked a season five episode until I realized that's the only option to get all of the original cast and not bother with Chevy.
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It's perfect for a table read because it's a great episode without Chevy that's confined entirely to one location excepting the tag and consists almost entirely of dialogue with very little action, and only has two non-regular characters with speaking roles. The real problem is that I don't believe Jim Rash is in that episode at all, which sucks.
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Arist posted:It's perfect for a table read because it's a great episode without Chevy that's confined entirely to one location excepting the tag and consists almost entirely of dialogue with very little action, and only has two non-regular characters with speaking roles. Guess we got the new Walton Goggins!
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:RV Repair is a great episode, it has a forth wall breaking plot (which I love because Abed is the best character and the true heart of the show), an appearance from Space Elder Britta, and a really hilarious runner at the end. "He's up there somewhere waiting for a better daddy with a bigger hand!" Season 6 has some great moments. I like when Dean is texting "Jeff" in Basic Crisis Room Decorum. The most underrated part of season 6 is how insane some of the end jokes were.
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The end joke of community sort of leads directly into rick and morty which is a trope i love, (when shows pass the torch with a nod)- except rick and morty brought us rick and morty fans who absolutely are a horrible racid puke toilet. My favourite character of community is britta.
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Lampsacus posted:The end joke of community sort of leads directly into rick and morty which is a trope i love, (when shows pass the torch with a nod)- except rick and morty brought us rick and morty fans who absolutely are a horrible racid puke toilet. My favourite character of community is britta. Eh, what percentage of R&M fans are the awful ones? A small, extremely online sect who’ve mostly shut up after being hounded. Kind of like super toxic Bernie people; definitely a thing, but more visible than they deserve because of Extreme Onlineness.
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y'all must be past season one by now, right? lmk if you want the thread title changed!
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I personally just finished the flashback episode to stuff we mostly never saw and ends with Annie's Boobs slapping Chang on the head as 'Gravity' plays.
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esperterra posted:y'all must be past season one by now, right? lmk if you want the thread title changed!
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Table read on the 18th but they also did a special episode of Ken and Joel’s podcast with Harmon and the rest of the main cast minus Chevy: https://youtu.be/R1WsyFFajz0
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May 10, 2020 00:33
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The episode where they take Troy out for his first legal drink is a good example of how the show can do a ton of completely standard sitcom cliches and yet somehow make it all work, right down to the character with the main plotline making the decision he doesn't need to drink alcohol to have a good time. I don't know if that's the strength of the writing or the performances or just that the characters earned it, but it really was quite fascinating see them do the kind of episode I might see out of a Carsey-Werner Production from the late 80s/early 90s. Hell, even the bit with the gay dude trying to pick up Abed felt like something you might see in Cheers.
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Jerusalem posted:The episode where they take Troy out for his first legal drink is a good example of how the show can do a ton of completely standard sitcom cliches and yet somehow make it all work, right down to the character with the main plotline making the decision he doesn't need to drink alcohol to have a good time. I don't know if that's the strength of the writing or the performances or just that the characters earned it, but it really was quite fascinating see them do the kind of episode I might see out of a Carsey-Werner Production from the late 80s/early 90s. When Paul F. Tompkins hits on you, you gotta take a hint. Escobarbarian posted:Table read on the 18th but they also did a special episode of Ken and Joel’s podcast with Harmon and the rest of the main cast minus Chevy: Holy poo poo they actually got all of them.
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