Community, the tv show

We'll clean up your mess you, drunkie

yahoo screen makes this unwatchable

given that they own the content, they should be able to work out the buffer lengths necessary to make good streaming possible.

i didn't have any problems (or ads, weirdly) using the xbox app

finally saw these, first ep was very blah to me, but I dug the 2nd episode. Dean in virtual reality was great, and portugese gremlins cracked me up

If anyone here liked E3, please tell me why and/or how and I'll listen.

The kids pranking the Dean was funny, as were the asides, but the main plot strand just wasn't funny at all.

In general, the bits of to the side of this season have been great, but the chemistry just isn't there between the main group any more. There's a lot of heart missing without Shirley and Troy there. The thudding repetition of "they gave a degree to a dog" suggested that maybe Harmon isn't trying as hard as he would have for network TV.

Britta parts were good, rest was pretty mediocre
I liked the bits with the Japanese kids and the ending tag

Also I still don't understand the point of Keith David's character, and I wish the show had gone to a bit more trouble to establish relationships between the group and the new characters before throwing them straight into forced plot conceits. That was Community's big strength in the first season.

Abed's AV nerd bit was great

wouldn't have guessed that was the episode directed by Bobcat Goldthwait though

He directed a bunch of Chappelle's Show bits, too.

Keith David is awesome, good nerd-get having him on the show. That is the point behind his character. Personally I thought he was great in the Saints Row games.

Yeah it is becoming more and more difficult to care about what is happening at all on this show.

Like I am trying to describe any of these characters in relation to each other and am coming up empty other than they are good at being generators and recipients of snarky comments.

oh I hope they spend a lot of time on relationships between the characters. that was always the funniest part of the show

That seems to be the thing they're doing the least of.

The character stuff was often the most numbskully part of the show

Like it was either pure satire on sit-com form or people kept telling Harmon he needed to make people care about the characters

Community’s biggest focus this season needs to be redefining these relationships for the audience. Are they still friends, or are they now more like co-workers? Is there still a romantic spark between Jeff and Annie or has that dynamic been abandoned completely? Who or what is Chang? There’s more to solidifying Community’s sixth season than randomly plugging in a couple new characters, but if anyone can make these characters’ relationships feel genuine and dimensional, it’s Harmon.

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/community-basic-crisis-room-decorum-216984

Well the comedy isn't doing it for me anymore. I had to rage-quit in the middle of Frankie's speech on "What is truth" just cos it was the nth joke where the comedy revolved entirely around "how clever is this?" I guess this show isn't for me anymore.

It's like the intellectual equivalent of a series of guitar solos.

some people like Grant Green

Are we still supposed to hate guitar solos?

think the rule is you may solo if it sounds like Prince http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16900-ivory/

or Neil Young: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19536-strand-of-oaks-heal/

There is lots of pre-grunge guitar on here: some actual shredding and soloing, albeit no showboating. Synths play a much larger role on HEAL, especially on the neon-lit title track and on “Same Emotions”, with its video-game solo on the coda.

so basically you have to solo like Prince, but with no showboating.

you have to be eddie van halen, but only 1984 eddie.

oh look, this is the Community thread

Community is the Derek Bailey of sitcoms.

lol

Are we still supposed to hate guitar solos?

I'm not a fan of the Grateful Dead and never will be.

I only like guitar solos where the dynamics between the notes are explored--you know, like, is this note a good leader? Or can this note deal with his best friend dating a female note? Or why is this note racist?

Your right i am an idiot who could never enjoy the genius doodlings of writer mc writerson. Enjoy the Artistic Integrity of a bunch of adults defending a dog's college graduation.

Your right i am an idiot

more like dumbmunity

oh I hope they spend a lot of time on relationships between the characters. that was always the funniest part of the show

I don't mean things like Troy and Britta or Jeff and Annie, I mean like when Jeff and Shirley would wander off and start bitching about the rest of the group, or the rivalry between Britta and Shirley, or y'know Troy and Abed doing anything. You got to know how different pairings of characters would react to a situation, things that made it a believable group dynamic and also acted in the service of the comedy. Seems pretty obvious that Harmon put a lot of effort into defining all that early on before taking the series off-piste.

This last episode felt like a sequence of characters just getting up and doing their own thing one after another and felt disconnected and disjointed and not very funny as a result. Britta's drunk and wearing someone else's pants? That's the joke?

that was pretty bad

maybe not dozens-of-weird-rage-filled-posts-from-adam bad, but still

Hah yeah. I'm done with this show and anything else Dan Harmon does. He's a hack and a bully.

sure, don't watch the funniest show on tv

I don't know which show you're talking about, Mordy, but it's not this one.

Too bad he didn't give us a link or something

oh lol the stylesheet I'm using doesn't make links apparent. will be changing.

ep 4 easily the best so far imo

yeah this was a pretty good

I enjoyed 3 and 4 quite a bit actually.

It's been getting dramatically better starting with ep 3. Ep 5 the best so far; loved Chang's line about, "I was their Spanish teacher; then they couldn't figure out anything interesting to do with me" or something.

"jesus WEPT" had me in tears. Enjoyed first few Eps. But I really don't care about any of these characters anymore, they're just ciphers for the next joke.

Like, none of them interact as if they actually know each other.

yeah this is in some ways more like watching a well-rehearsed improv troupe than, like, a show about humans at this point

Yahoo Screen just launched a new show from Paul Feig starring a bunch of commercial actors, plus Joel and Trace from MST3K. Anyone seen it yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4iQfJftmOU

Like, none of them interact as if they actually know each other.

I've been enjoying the petty Annie v Britta flatmate rivalry (especially the fact that Jeff has nothing to do with it), but yeah, this.