000000 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 As a Doctor Who fan, they could do so much more with Inspector Spacetime, but like you mentioned, there's people who just don't care about it. Also Pierce needs to stop being in episodes already. Also also where is Chang? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 My guess is that next week will be Chang-centric. Probably their first history class, too. He'll walk it as the new student or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noalarmplanet Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I can't deny it anymore. Community has lost it. Is it funny? sure, less than it was, but sure the problem with the show now is that harmon knew how to tell a story. even if inspector spacetime was overplayed, I think harmon would have managed it well. This was his show and these last few episodes prove that. Its honestly getting too hard for me to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 It's clear to me that it has lost a fair bit of charm. I'm not sure if they'll ever reach quite the level of season 2 again, but season 3 fell short in that department so it's not ALL on the loss of Dan. There are some really funny jokes, but with characters as good as these and actors that play them so well it's hard not to give them a few great lines every episode. One of my main concerns is that the show isn't going to be able to play its emotional beats well anymore, which was one of the reasons I think set this show apart from most other sitcoms. Like, the end of the Halloween episode didn't do anything for me. Especially compared to Introduction to Film, Mixology Certification, Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, and Virtual System Analysis. I wouldn't say it's hard for me to watch. It's still one of about two shows that's appointment television for me. And when I'm not enjoying the episode I'm still enjoying the characters for the most part. I think it'll get better from here as they hopefully settle down into a groove. I think they were trying so, so hard to appeal to the audience that they didn't develop their own voice. There have also been some incredibly lazy jokes also, so that kind of scares me. I'll stick with the show regardless, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chefchino Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Tho I'm probably going to continue watching this regardless of it not being as good. I really don't see myself going to see the movie if it ever comes out. Maybe redbox but definitely not in the theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Let's be real, even if they get a season 5, if NBC finds a few hits in the next program cycle they'll dump Community. It doesn't have a big enough following on paper, and who would finance a full-length feature? I'd bet on Netflix, with all the awesome news about original programming as of late, but Sony/NBC won't even license the show to Netflix (assuming they've tried), I'd bet obtaining the rights to a movie would be a stupid frustrating jungle for anyone who attempted it. I haven't seen this week's episode, but I haven't heard anyone say "it was a great episode", so I'm not looking forward to it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrangerwithcandy Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 It's clear to me that it has lost a fair bit of charm. I'm not sure if they'll ever reach quite the level of season 2 again, but season 3 fell short in that department so it's not ALL on the loss of Dan. To be fair Dan did say he had to rush a lot of things in Season 3 that he wanted to develop more because NBC was hinting that shit was going to go south. I pretty much agree with the majority on here; It still can make me laugh but there's way too many lazy jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Hmm, I didn't have a problem with anything feeling rushed. It was more of the overarching things. Like Chang's Army just because they wanted to put Chang back in a position of power. Or (sorry to harp on this) using Inspector so much just because fans went wild about it the first time. And them pretty much catering the show to Abed so much in the latter half of the season. I think it kind of affected the group dynamic by having so much of their activities filtered through him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrangerwithcandy Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Hmm, I didn't have a problem with anything feeling rushed. It was more of the overarching things. Like Chang's Army just because they wanted to put Chang back in a position of power. Or (sorry to harp on this) using Inspector so much just because fans went wild about it the first time. And them pretty much catering the show to Abed so much in the latter half of the season. I think it kind of affected the group dynamic by having so much of their activities filtered through him. I should have elaborated. By rushed I mean he said certain story lines that he wanted to draw out longer or save for later he threw in because they're stories he wanted to tell before he left. He specifically talked about Abed and explained why he focused so much on him. It was in a Reddit AMA if I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Ohh makes sense. I never read any of his AMAs in its entirety, just bits and pieces. He did do more than 1, right? I wanna say at least two of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrangerwithcandy Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Ohh makes sense. I never read any of his AMAs in its entirety, just bits and pieces. He did do more than 1, right? I wanna say at least two of them. I think so, I found an organized transcript of the AMA so it might have been compiled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noalarmplanet Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Dan always said that he wanted to do a movie, but wanted to have them come back from something weird and be like "Well that was wacky series of events" or something along those lines. If the show continued elsewhere I'd imagine they re hire him and he can pretend that season 4 was a weird alternate meta universe. At least I hope for that. If you didn't like season 3, I'd suggest a re-watch as s3 turned me off initially but on second viewing I loved so much more. Inspector spacetime just gave something for abed to obsess about, the joke wore out its welcome in the last episode as they didn't do anything funny with it. Could any of you imagine Arrested Development without Mitch Hurwitz? I feel like it's the same deal here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I've seen them a lot via rewatching a bunch on DVR and then also when the DVDs came out. I still think season 3 was awesome as a whole, there are just a few points of contention I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Looks like Nick Kroll and his foosball goons are back tonight. There's no way this episode CAN'T be awesome now, right? I always found this gag to be hysterical. "That's like a 25 dollar bit. It's not even that good." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Well, I guess they couldn't get Kroll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I really liked this episode. It was really funny and everything felt right. Just the kind of thing I was waiting for. Eager to see if other people agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seangj Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I liked it too. It will be interesting to see how they deal with Chang next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuckoffleatherjacket Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Yikes, that was not a good episode. bathroommonkey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 the only review i read was unfavorable. mostly calling out jeff's speech at the end. whatever.. daybreak made me happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I dunno which you read, but I read AV Club's, and Todd VanDerWerff hated it. I thought it was a little odd that this episode (as is often the case with Community episodes) was aired out of order and was like the 2nd produced, I think. Because to me the characters felt more grounded than in any of the other episodes. I gotta watch it again because I've only seen it the one time so far. And, yeah, a lot of people are hating on Jeff's speech. I was too delighted by how much the episode was entertaining me to nitpick, so we'll see how it holds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 one thing i took away from this episode is that i'm starting to understand chevy leaving. it seems like they have drastically reduced pierce in several aspects... fewer lines, a cheaper ones at that. far less importance in the gorup dynamic. almost as if he was pretty much written off after all the shit with dan went public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Music Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 It was a pretty lazy joke, but I got a kick out of Pierce being offended that Jeff automatically got the Hitler role in the group. But he has been reduced to pretty much gay and racist jokes. At least he could provide some nuggets of wisdom or a different perspective before. I think I already said it, but I wasn't buying his moment at the end of the Halloween episode as being redemptive for his character, either. Part of it has to do with his refusal to do scenes, plus them not always being 100% sure if he was gonna be on set so they couldn't rely on him too much. That also means they probably didn't try as hard to make him a good character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuckoffleatherjacket Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Tim heidecker will be on an episode this season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000000 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 i thought that was the best one so far this season, but still kinda eh. loved the daybreak moment though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3arl Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 This should be good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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