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soupytwist

inbelievable and unvincible!

Nov 06, 2011 21:35

This weekend I mostly got to indulge my affection for quality menswear by serving as a fashion consultant while two gentlemen of my acquaintance tried on suits. It was kind of awesome, I'm not going to lie, if only as a break from routine. Er, at least until I accidentally become a menswear guru or something, which I'm not going to, like, rule out ( Read more... )

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rachel2205 November 6 2011, 22:45:49 UTC

I loved nearly everything about this episode of Community. I'm gonna eat space paninis with black Hitler and there's nothing you can do about it! I also loved that Dan Harmon apologised to people for making the gay stuff pretty cliched - and Community is always ALL about stereotypes, but he acknowledged that could have been done better. The Community people are good people.

soupytwist November 6 2011, 22:53:00 UTC

He is TOTALLY going to eat space paninis with black Hitler! Oh Troy.

I did not know that Dan Harmon apologised! I didn't think it was any more stereotyped about the gay stuff this episode than it ever has been... I mean, how do you have the Dean, otherwise? And I've always loved that Community does stereotypes but in a weirdly affectionate, multi-dimensional way: like, yeah, these people sort of are stereotypes, but they're also not, and there's a sense that if you're seeing a stereotypical or ridiculous element, that there IS other stuff to know, you're just not seeing it right this second. :)

rachel2205 November 6 2011, 23:56:20 UTC

Yeah, definitely agree. But as he admitted, that's true of the main characters but in this episode, you only get to see one side of the gay characters - being all sparkly and camp, and he could have been a bit more nuanced there. Here.

The rest of the gay characters that we saw were “background” at a big, gay party, jumping around in gay outfits having a great time being super, duper gay. They functioned as a single entity, cheering when someone liked gay people, booing when someone didn’t, and as soon as they had fulfilled their usefulness to the story, they were gone, and nobody ever atoned with them, and they were never revealed to be made up of dimensional individuals with fears and desires transcending a big gay throng ( ... )