Why Don't We Let Britta Sing Her Awkward Song
I'm so very very tired right now. Spent the past two weeks running around a lot. I need a holiday.
Anyway, I have thoughts about stuff:
Noooo! Community, don't leave me! Name another show on television with a Doctor Who joke that has now spanned nine episodes, that breaks out into random anime and decides to mash up Glee with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (and the 1970s version as well).
The last scene with Donald Sutherland in Invasion that Community spoofed gets my vote for the most disturbing and scary scene in all of cinema. Plus, in an odd bit of timing, this very week was the one in which I decided that I had started to loathe Glee so much that I couldn't watch it even as a guilty pleasure and have just given up on it. So nice timing.
And what's made me love the show even more is in the past two episodes gave me things I've been wanting to see for a while:
1.Shirley got a plotline, and as a complete bonus, we got some of that Jeff Winger chemistry thrown Shirley's way.
2.The group and Greendale at large finally stood up for Britta.
They've both been so long overdue, Shirley's been barely getting any lines this season, so it was brilliant that she not only got a plotline, but also we got a look into what made her the Shirley we know and love, and they didn't just fall back on her religion (which the the writers do way too often). I want to see all the study group as kids now.
I hope we have reached the point where the 'you are the worst' Britta jokes will start to abate. We've got the point now, Britta is a massive dork who screws things up, and she tries the patience of everyone around her, but it has finally come to light that not only her friends want to listen to her sing her awkward song, but so does the wider population at Greendale. She is loved by her friends and she has her place at Greendale.
(Okay, bit of a side track, I got to thinking about what I would want to see the characters do when the graduate, and while all the rest would move on from Greendale, I think it'd be wonderful if Britta got hired by the Dean and became Greendale's guidance counsellor. Having first hand experience, she could do a lot of good for the misfits that pass through Greendale, and also be in an environment that when she feels the need to rage against the machine, rather than wind up fired, everyone will just roll their eyes and chalk it down to another annual reconnection with her activist roots).
Also, I have two shipping confessions:
Firstly, while I want Community to keep playing around with pairings all the time (for example, in the past few episodes we've had Shirley/Jeff, Britta/Troy, Annie/Abed, Annie/Jeff, Dean/Jeff, Britta/Abed, Troy/Abed, Annie/Abed/Troy) I've gotten really into Jeff/Britta. I don't know why, I didn't start out that way, I've started to think they really fit. Even though they've stopped sleeping together behind everyone's backs and there hasn't been anything romantic between them since season one, just the little thing we've been getting this season, such as Jeff crying springing Britta into action after the Dean's gone crazy, and Jeff being actually willing to discuss his daddy issues with Britta, and the fact they're best friends, it just works for me more than any other pairing on the show. If the show gets a fourth season, I want them to have reached a point where they could actually make a go of it.
And secondly and moving into a whole different fandom, I'm shipping Regina/Emma on Once Upon A Time like crazy. They've got crazy amount of chemistry and act like couple going through a prologued and petty divorce, complete with destruction of the other's stuff and a custody battle - it's amazing. For me, it's become an OTP and it's breaking my heart, because chances are the show won't go there. I'm going to have to rely on fic.
Actually, that's an issue I have with the show in general. It's trying to be subversive of the fairytales, but thus far, it hasn't been subversive enough. Apart from the central conflict being between two women (which is rare, particularly in genre shows), I haven't seen anything that's been particularly new. For example, yes, a fairy godmother got killed off, but would you believe that's the second time I've seen that on TV this year, it's nothing new and True Blood did it better. And it seems to be over emphasising done-to-death notions of romantic love. I'm fine with Snow/Charming as it's cute and the actors really do have talent, chemistry and charm, but the idea that the Evil Queen became the Evil Queen because her lover died is a bit dull and has been overdone. Don't even get me started on the Emma/Sheriff/Regina love triangle that seems to be developing. Two women fighting over their son, different and interesting. Two women fighting over a man, done twenty five million times before and blegh! (Also, I know a lot of fangirls love the Sheriff because he's hot, but he's the dullest character on the show and the actor's a bit wooden).
I'm still into this show because I like the characters and the actors playing them and because it has a tonne of potential (and Richard Schiff is due to turn up. Yay, Toby!), but it's going to have to show how it's a bit different soon and genuinely take an interesting turn or two to keep my attention.
Anyway, I have thoughts about stuff:
Noooo! Community, don't leave me! Name another show on television with a Doctor Who joke that has now spanned nine episodes, that breaks out into random anime and decides to mash up Glee with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (and the 1970s version as well).
The last scene with Donald Sutherland in Invasion that Community spoofed gets my vote for the most disturbing and scary scene in all of cinema. Plus, in an odd bit of timing, this very week was the one in which I decided that I had started to loathe Glee so much that I couldn't watch it even as a guilty pleasure and have just given up on it. So nice timing.
And what's made me love the show even more is in the past two episodes gave me things I've been wanting to see for a while:
1.Shirley got a plotline, and as a complete bonus, we got some of that Jeff Winger chemistry thrown Shirley's way.
2.The group and Greendale at large finally stood up for Britta.
They've both been so long overdue, Shirley's been barely getting any lines this season, so it was brilliant that she not only got a plotline, but also we got a look into what made her the Shirley we know and love, and they didn't just fall back on her religion (which the the writers do way too often). I want to see all the study group as kids now.
I hope we have reached the point where the 'you are the worst' Britta jokes will start to abate. We've got the point now, Britta is a massive dork who screws things up, and she tries the patience of everyone around her, but it has finally come to light that not only her friends want to listen to her sing her awkward song, but so does the wider population at Greendale. She is loved by her friends and she has her place at Greendale.
(Okay, bit of a side track, I got to thinking about what I would want to see the characters do when the graduate, and while all the rest would move on from Greendale, I think it'd be wonderful if Britta got hired by the Dean and became Greendale's guidance counsellor. Having first hand experience, she could do a lot of good for the misfits that pass through Greendale, and also be in an environment that when she feels the need to rage against the machine, rather than wind up fired, everyone will just roll their eyes and chalk it down to another annual reconnection with her activist roots).
Also, I have two shipping confessions:
Firstly, while I want Community to keep playing around with pairings all the time (for example, in the past few episodes we've had Shirley/Jeff, Britta/Troy, Annie/Abed, Annie/Jeff, Dean/Jeff, Britta/Abed, Troy/Abed, Annie/Abed/Troy) I've gotten really into Jeff/Britta. I don't know why, I didn't start out that way, I've started to think they really fit. Even though they've stopped sleeping together behind everyone's backs and there hasn't been anything romantic between them since season one, just the little thing we've been getting this season, such as Jeff crying springing Britta into action after the Dean's gone crazy, and Jeff being actually willing to discuss his daddy issues with Britta, and the fact they're best friends, it just works for me more than any other pairing on the show. If the show gets a fourth season, I want them to have reached a point where they could actually make a go of it.
And secondly and moving into a whole different fandom, I'm shipping Regina/Emma on Once Upon A Time like crazy. They've got crazy amount of chemistry and act like couple going through a prologued and petty divorce, complete with destruction of the other's stuff and a custody battle - it's amazing. For me, it's become an OTP and it's breaking my heart, because chances are the show won't go there. I'm going to have to rely on fic.
Actually, that's an issue I have with the show in general. It's trying to be subversive of the fairytales, but thus far, it hasn't been subversive enough. Apart from the central conflict being between two women (which is rare, particularly in genre shows), I haven't seen anything that's been particularly new. For example, yes, a fairy godmother got killed off, but would you believe that's the second time I've seen that on TV this year, it's nothing new and True Blood did it better. And it seems to be over emphasising done-to-death notions of romantic love. I'm fine with Snow/Charming as it's cute and the actors really do have talent, chemistry and charm, but the idea that the Evil Queen became the Evil Queen because her lover died is a bit dull and has been overdone. Don't even get me started on the Emma/Sheriff/Regina love triangle that seems to be developing. Two women fighting over their son, different and interesting. Two women fighting over a man, done twenty five million times before and blegh! (Also, I know a lot of fangirls love the Sheriff because he's hot, but he's the dullest character on the show and the actor's a bit wooden).
I'm still into this show because I like the characters and the actors playing them and because it has a tonne of potential (and Richard Schiff is due to turn up. Yay, Toby!), but it's going to have to show how it's a bit different soon and genuinely take an interesting turn or two to keep my attention.