Ongoing Community Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Admiral_Young, Jan 21, 2011.

  1. Professor Zoom

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    What "debacle"? You mean the actor who played him who thought he could make a webseries based on a character he didn't own and never got permission for? That "debacle"?

    This. Both come off as a-holes in this. Dan, just a little bit bigger of one. And then to release the voicemail... It's a little childish. MORE than a little childish. No one looks good here.

    That said, Pierce has been sidelined--most likely due to all of this, so best to let him go.
     
  2. pork3

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    I'd actually say the same for most of the characters. With every passing year, they're become increasingly absurd versions of themselves. I'd argue the show's becoming a bit of a farce frankly.

    This season has had a large number of rather mediocre episodes IMHO, and, to be honest, the Abed/Troy dynamic is being overplayed.

    -Jamman
     
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  3. Admiral_Young

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  4. timothy

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    Another new episode this week.
     
  5. bigdaddy

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    I really enjoyed the episode. :)
     
  6. timothy

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    I was disapoointed in tonight episode. Though I like the new tension between troy & abed.
     
  7. Beagleman

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    I thought it was awesome, I would say one of the best of the season so far. But yeah, they could have kept the tension between Abed and Troy a bit longer.
     
  8. scnj

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    Are you kidding?! This is one of the best episodes they've done, easily up there with the paintball episodes.
     
  9. Yoda

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    Yeah, I thought it was awesome. The Civil War documentary style pillow-fight, genius :lol:
     
  10. Chris_Johnston

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    Abso-frappin-lutely! This episode was epic! I'm sure Ken Burns is very proud.
    I need to watch it again several more times in the near future.
    Especially loved Abed's "Doomsday Device".
     
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  11. TheGodBen

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    Yeah, this was right up there with Remedial Chaos Theory as my favourite episode of the season, brilliant stuff. :techman:

    Gotta love Keith David's voice. :lol:
     
  12. shivkala

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    I can't wait for when the opportunity arises that I can issue an all tomato to someone. I want the whole tomato and nothing else!

    I also loved Dean Pelton's plea for Jeffrey to come save him! That was a great, small, blink and you miss it moment, but it summed up the Dean quite well.

    I love how Community is able to do these episodes and give me something unexpected. And, while Keith David is awesome, for half a second at the beginning of the episode, I thought it was Morgan Freeman, which would have been damned cool!

    I found this on the internets, behold, the DOOMSDAY WEAPON:

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  13. Professor Zoom

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    I think my favorite moment of the night was when Jeff asked the narrator if he was in The Cape. The narrator paused. Then. "No."

    Funny.
     
  14. Jono

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    Liked the format of the episode. As with most of the episodes this season I got the feeling of the characters essentially been back to square one as if their development over the previous seasons never happened.
     
  15. shivkala

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    A post in Science Fiction & Fantasy mentioned the novels which were nominated for the 2012 Hugo awards, which prompted me to check out the other categories. I was pretty surprised, but happy to see this:

    Now, as a big-Who fan, I'd love to see Who win, especially "The Doctor's Wife," due to my twin loves of Doctor Who and the writings of Neil Gaiman, but I would also love to see Community win, especially since episodes of Doctor Who won in 2011 and 2010.
     
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  16. Snaploud

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    Yeah, as much as I love Doctor Who...it would be great to see Community win for Remedial Chaos Theory. :techman:
     
  17. Professor Zoom

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    I'd like to see Community win. It's a great Sci Fi episode. Better than Doctor's Wife--which is pretty fantastic, but... Though The Girl Who Waited... very awesome.
     
  18. Sci

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    I don't know if I really think it ought to qualify for the Hugo. I don't think we were actually seeing alternate timelines -- we were seeing Abed's musings about what those alternate timelines might be like.
     
  19. Admiral_Young

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    ^ Yet the alternative timelines were used in a science fiction type setting Sci. I know you believe that Abed was imagining them, but if it was or not doesn't matter in this context. They were used in a science fiction setting and thus qualify IMO.

    This is a tough one. Huge Who fan and I absolutely adored that episode, but also loved this episode as well. I think I'd be fine if either episode won.
     
  20. Sci

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    Well, by that logic, did The Big Bang Theory qualify when Leonard imagined Sheldon reproducing through mitosis? Or Scrubs qualify for a Hugo every time J.D. imagined himself in a sci-fi setting? Or The Wonder Years when Kevin imagined himself and his friends as the characters from "Spock's Brain?" Etc.

    I just think it's a stretch. Mind you, if there were a reason to think "Remedial Chaos Theory" wasn't Abed's imagination, I'd agree that it qualifies.

    But I have my own issues with the Hugos. (Nominating the entire first season of Game of Thrones in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form category? Nonsense; it's not a single long dramatic presentation, it's a collection of short-form dramatic presentations. And awards acceptance speech skits should never be nominated alongside full episodes in the short-form category. But I digress. End rant.)