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ashpanash posted:New behind-the-scenes: From my recent rewatch, the main thing I noticed was Professor Duncan was a great character and season 3 felt weird without him. So glad to have him back here. Helps that the episode was solid overall. I thought it was interesting that they came up with the most ridiculous crisis possible and immediately juxtaposed it with the most serious and depressing event. They handled Pierce's death weirdly realistically; it came out of nowhere and just bulldozed over everything else that they were wrapped up in. Now his death will forever be associated with the asscrack bandit, and I'm not sure if that's hilarious or sad.
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The actual lava game felt mostly like a retread, but I really enjoyed the episode because it went a long way towards fixing Britta. She was great here and so was the entire last act with the farewells.
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Jan 24, 2014 04:12
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DairyBastard posted:Am I odd for liking 504 more than 505? I dunno, I guess I just love bottle episodes. I could watch like 20 episodes of these 6 (well now 5) characters just bounce off each other because they're so witty and hilarious. I was still impressed just because 505 looked so amazing visually, but it didn't like make my top 5 like Modern Warfare or Epidemiology. I'm not sure why. Diminishing returns in effect. 505 was well done, but 504 was inventive.
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Jan 31, 2014 00:39
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Quandary posted:The whole Bear Down/Fat Dog plot honestly wasn't anything special but I can't figure out why I think its so loving funny. It was the funniest plotline of the season. The climax just being Garret screaming "IT'S A BEAR DANCE!" was amazing.
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Jan 31, 2014 04:29
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Quandary posted:Why are people hating on this episode I honestly don't understand. Nuke this thread. I could see a lot of people not getting or appreciating the fat dog/bear down stuff, but I don't want to meet those people.
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Feb 1, 2014 04:56
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I'm kinda shocked people didn't like the Buzz/Abed plot. I thought it was by far the funniest segment and some of the smartest dialog Community has had since season 2. Abed's rant about how lifeless his comic strips were, especially. I don't think you're supposed to take away from this that Abed was right or magical, so in the words of his hacky duck, what the hell, thread.
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Feb 28, 2014 08:52
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1st AD posted:Because none of it was funny and I like sitcoms that are funny and have jokes. I find everything Buzz does and says hilarious. He's got that extreme dramatic juxtaposition thing going for him. His blunt explanation for how he'd survive the apocalypse was the best joke of the episode. Edit: Alan Sepinwall compares the episode to Mixology and that pretty much nails what I was thinking when I said smarted writing since season 2. I thought this episode was on fire and maybe even the peak of an already great season (and this is coming from someone who's pretty middling on 3 and thinks it was too childish and Abed-heavy.) Scissorfighter fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 09:03
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E the Shaggy posted:I can't believe that's not Vince Gilligan. Is that a reference or something? It was Vince.
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VagueRant posted:I get more negative about the finale the more I think about it. It's really soured me on the show for its future. The weirdest part is that this season started so strong, the first half was season 3 quality. But then it just kind of fizzled out into that meh-ness. Weird, I'd say season 5 is a hell of a lot better than 3 because the characters are far less wacky and more deftly handled. I also found it funnier since they didn't rely on popular jokes and self-references as much (the exception being the hot lava episode where they did yet another retread of that stupid "Troy and abed in the morning" poo poo). No inspector spacetime! I liked the season 3 finale but I appreciate that this one goes in a different direction entirely instead of being another "possible emotional closure of entire series but maybe not!" thing.
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(Or choose to remember season 3's ending as the end of the show.)