Posting about a totally new different fandom!
Okay, so I have this curse. Every single time I get into a show that's currently in production, the minute I get really attached it seems like bad things happen. That's why there are a lot of shows where I watched the first season or two, and then stopped. And waited. And once the show was done and wrapped, THEN I felt like I could go back and watch it.
That's why I didn't finish watching Buffy until 2009. That's why I STILL haven't watched past season 2 of Supernatural. That's why I'm only JUST NOW watching Season 2 of LOST.
But a friend of mine got me hooked on "Community" and I love it soooo much. And now Season 3 is over and we're only getting a short run for Season 4, and Dan Harmon is leaving(!) amid lots of bitterness, and I still think Chevy Chase is a prick and I could watch the show without him... and...
I love this show so much. It's not exactly like anything on TV--although it's extremely meta awareness of TV Tropes makes it like EVERYTHING on TV but in a way that is beyond everything else ever. And that's why I love it. I love that it's unique and weird, and that it totally appeals to geeks like me. And now they're replacing Dan Harmon as showrunner because they want to take it in a more "mainstream" direction? Make it more appealing to the masses???
No. No. No! Bad executives!
I mean, yeah, I get that they need to make money on this, and that if it doesn't make money then it isn't worth them producing. And yes, the ratings have dropped (maybe because they insist on putting it in really bad timeslots? I don't know. I don't have cable or TV at all, and I have to get all my "Community" through HULU and Netflix.). But I want to get down on my knees and BEG them not to change the things that make me love "Community" so much.
Please do not stop doing TV-Trope-ic shows! My favorite episodes are the ones that are the most self-aware. The multiple time-line episode is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV. The Conspiracy Theories ep with the multiple plot twists. The bottle-episode that took place entirely in the study room (and gave us all the boys in their underwear, thankyouthereisagod). ALL the paintball episodes. The pillows vs. blankets episode with the historical documentary narration. The zombie episode! Gah!!!!!! I could go on and on and on and on.
Please do not change the characters! As annoying as it is, I love Jeff's speechifying and Annie's adorable nerdiness (though it'd be nice if they let her grow up a LITTLE). I love Britta's hypocritcal preachiness, and Shirley's turn-on-a-dime nice girl to badass mama. I love how sweet Troy is and Abed's quirkiness, and Chang and the Dean's overtop insanity. (I could live without Pierce, though I admit that the jokes about his stupidity and racism make me laugh--at him. Which is all I ever wanted out of Chevy Chase in the first place, cause I don't think he's very funny. My enjoyment of him is the same as I'd get at a dunk tank. I want to throw things at him and watch him flounder like a stupid-fish.)
Please don't make it more PC! Yes, I know that a lot of the show's humor is based on stereotypes (and sometimes ripping them apart). Yes, I know that they rely pretty heavily on Pierce's completely unconscious racism for humor, or poking fun at various religions. And I know that that doesn't always sit well with people, and sometimes, yes, the humor falls flat. But I really like that the show is so self aware of what it's doing, that it uses this bravery to TRY jokes like that, in order to deconstruct them.
Please do not make this another bland sit com.
Please do not cancel it after the short run Season 4.
Also, while I'm asking for things I know I probably won't get, can we please have like, five or more episodes where Jeff dresses in the magicians outfit from the episode "The First Chang Dynasty"? I really, really think that will improve ratings. Those skin-tight black leather pants, rippling abs, and the black fingernail polish... I'm totally with the Dean on that one.
GUH.
Can someone PLEASE make me a GothPunk!JeffWinger gif?
That's why I didn't finish watching Buffy until 2009. That's why I STILL haven't watched past season 2 of Supernatural. That's why I'm only JUST NOW watching Season 2 of LOST.
But a friend of mine got me hooked on "Community" and I love it soooo much. And now Season 3 is over and we're only getting a short run for Season 4, and Dan Harmon is leaving(!) amid lots of bitterness, and I still think Chevy Chase is a prick and I could watch the show without him... and...
I love this show so much. It's not exactly like anything on TV--although it's extremely meta awareness of TV Tropes makes it like EVERYTHING on TV but in a way that is beyond everything else ever. And that's why I love it. I love that it's unique and weird, and that it totally appeals to geeks like me. And now they're replacing Dan Harmon as showrunner because they want to take it in a more "mainstream" direction? Make it more appealing to the masses???
No. No. No! Bad executives!
I mean, yeah, I get that they need to make money on this, and that if it doesn't make money then it isn't worth them producing. And yes, the ratings have dropped (maybe because they insist on putting it in really bad timeslots? I don't know. I don't have cable or TV at all, and I have to get all my "Community" through HULU and Netflix.). But I want to get down on my knees and BEG them not to change the things that make me love "Community" so much.
Please do not stop doing TV-Trope-ic shows! My favorite episodes are the ones that are the most self-aware. The multiple time-line episode is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV. The Conspiracy Theories ep with the multiple plot twists. The bottle-episode that took place entirely in the study room (and gave us all the boys in their underwear, thankyouthereisagod). ALL the paintball episodes. The pillows vs. blankets episode with the historical documentary narration. The zombie episode! Gah!!!!!! I could go on and on and on and on.
Please do not change the characters! As annoying as it is, I love Jeff's speechifying and Annie's adorable nerdiness (though it'd be nice if they let her grow up a LITTLE). I love Britta's hypocritcal preachiness, and Shirley's turn-on-a-dime nice girl to badass mama. I love how sweet Troy is and Abed's quirkiness, and Chang and the Dean's overtop insanity. (I could live without Pierce, though I admit that the jokes about his stupidity and racism make me laugh--at him. Which is all I ever wanted out of Chevy Chase in the first place, cause I don't think he's very funny. My enjoyment of him is the same as I'd get at a dunk tank. I want to throw things at him and watch him flounder like a stupid-fish.)
Please don't make it more PC! Yes, I know that a lot of the show's humor is based on stereotypes (and sometimes ripping them apart). Yes, I know that they rely pretty heavily on Pierce's completely unconscious racism for humor, or poking fun at various religions. And I know that that doesn't always sit well with people, and sometimes, yes, the humor falls flat. But I really like that the show is so self aware of what it's doing, that it uses this bravery to TRY jokes like that, in order to deconstruct them.
Please do not make this another bland sit com.
Please do not cancel it after the short run Season 4.
Also, while I'm asking for things I know I probably won't get, can we please have like, five or more episodes where Jeff dresses in the magicians outfit from the episode "The First Chang Dynasty"? I really, really think that will improve ratings. Those skin-tight black leather pants, rippling abs, and the black fingernail polish... I'm totally with the Dean on that one.
GUH.
Can someone PLEASE make me a GothPunk!JeffWinger gif?