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Dr_Amazing posted:The VR stuff was great. The dean literally drowning a file to delete it was hilarious. Maybe it's  but...
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I just got around to watching the first two eps, didn't know they were out, and gosh, they were pretty funny! I've watched Community from the beginning and remember being pretty jaded by the last couple seasons, but heck I enjoyed these episodes and will definitely be trying the rest! Greendale drunk montage was loving ace.
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Dr_Amazing posted:At the end of the first episode when that background guy was furiously glaring at them, was that about anything particular? I'm calling a Leonard antagonist episode later this season. Something season 3 Pierce level.
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Am I the only one who found Yahoo Screen's streaming really loving glitchy? Like, I would get random periodic freezes/pixelation, and it's not my internet. It happened on two devices. And I got no commercials on my Kindle Fire HDX.
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They look like they figured out why some people call him Pringles dick.
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Mar 20, 2015 08:18
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Why is a young JFK spooning Dan Harmon.
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Loved both episodes, really reassuring start to the season. Frankie seems like a good fit character-wise - she offers the same sort of moral/reality anchor point for the group in the way that Shirley did, but she seems like it'll be a lot easier for Harmon and the staff to write for her. As much as I loved they had a Christian single-mother on the character on a show like that, they clearly never quite knew what to do with her. Also, exterior shots. I had no idea how much I missed them. Immediately throws more of a sense of reality in there.
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Mar 20, 2015 08:54
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MikeJF posted:Why is a young JFK spooning Dan Harmon. That would be Jeff Davis, the unsung hero and "straight man" of Harmontown.
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Dr_Amazing posted:At the end of the first episode when that background guy was furiously glaring at them, was that about anything particular? It was a callback to that scene where Chang did the same thing because he thought he was going to be let into the study group.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:33
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MikeJF posted:Why is a young JFK spooning Dan Harmon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia2HSjp4to0
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Am I the only one who found Yahoo Screen's streaming really loving glitchy? Like, I would get random periodic freezes/pixelation, and it's not my internet. It happened on two devices. And I got no commercials on my Kindle Fire HDX. The strange thing to me is not that so many people had issues with Yahoo Screen, but that there are so many different ways that people had problems. For me, the 3rd (and 4th, when there were 4 commercials) in a set never had sound, and most of the time when getting back from a commercial it would skip the first few seconds of the new scene and I'd have to go back again to get it all. Then there are people with glitchy playback, people who had to refresh after freezes to see it at all, people who didn't get any commercials at all, and I think a couple others I've forgotten now.
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Mar 20, 2015 18:18
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Yahoo Screen is going to be a bit poo poo to begin with, at least I hope this is it's first big thing, otherwise it has no excuse. What annoys me is the incredibly limited geo-restriction. Who was in charge for that blunder? Could they just not get the rights to the music? It seems like such a huge mistake to alienate a large percentage of their audience for no published reason; there hasn't been an explanation anywhere, as far as I can tell, which usually someone trots out when people are asking. Even for a rights issue, they could easily make enough profit from international broadcast to pay off whatever dicks want to charge extra for non-americans to listen to their poo poo.
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Why the assumption that it's music related? They only have the broadcast rights in certain countries. I'm sure Yahoo would prefer to have it available everywhere, it would be easier and would probably make them more money, but international broadcast/streaming rights are a mess for every show. Yahoo can't change that on their own.
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I think the distribution thing is dumb, but drat do I love all the angry foreigners who can't live without American media for a few days.
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Irish Joe posted:I think the distribution thing is dumb, but drat do I love all the angry foreigners who can't live without American media for a few days. And we love you too Irish Joe.
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Irish Joe posted:I think the distribution thing is dumb, but drat do I love all the angry foreigners who can't live without American media for a few days. There were about 7 different copies online by the time I woke up in GMT, so I doubt anyone is doing any waiting. Both episodes solid. Reminded me why it used to be my favourite sitcom despite not being top-10 calibre. Definitely way, way better than something Yahoo! have the rights to, so good on them.
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Diabolik900 posted:Why the assumption that it's music related? They only have the broadcast rights in certain countries. I'm sure Yahoo would prefer to have it available everywhere, it would be easier and would probably make them more money, but international broadcast/streaming rights are a mess for every show. Yahoo can't change that on their own. I dunno, just guessing because it usually is. I just want to know who I can be angry at for keeping internet in the TV age.
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Irish Joe posted:I think the distribution thing is dumb, but drat do I love all the angry foreigners who can't live without American media for a few days.  You are in fine form lately.
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Tartan Target posted:Loved both episodes, really reassuring start to the season. Frankie seems like a good fit character-wise - she offers the same sort of moral/reality anchor point for the group in the way that Shirley did, but she seems like it'll be a lot easier for Harmon and the staff to write for her. As much as I loved they had a Christian single-mother on the character on a show like that, they clearly never quite knew what to do with her. NEVER is a strong word when they executed Shirley's character perfectly in Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples (Abed as Jesus), and she did have a great role kind of making fun of herself for the early run. There were just too many episodes (like Troy's 21st birthday) that refused to resolve things with her, and others that just faded her out entirely.
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Milovan Drecun posted:NEVER is a strong word when they executed Shirley's character perfectly in Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples (Abed as Jesus), and she did have a great role kind of making fun of herself for the early run. There were just too many episodes (like Troy's 21st birthday) that refused to resolve things with her, and others that just faded her out entirely. Fair point, I guess I just felt like those moments of playing to her character strengths just became smaller and more spread out as the show went on. That's a good point, though. They introduced the idea that Shirley was secretly getting drunk in that bar to the point that her photographs were all over the wall, but they never came back to it. The only other reference to Shirley possibly being an alcoholic was in the 'darkest time-line'. It's a shame, because that seems like something that could've had some mileage to it, but oh well. Edit: Also, I'm probably the only one who this bothered, but the whole "Jesus wept" bit is a mis-quote of a mis-quote. It should be Alexander, not Jesus (Jesus wasn't really about conquering anything) and even then, the quote everyone remembers - "Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" comes word-for-word from Die Hard. I honestly don't know how much I care about it, though. Tartan Target fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Mar 22, 2015 |
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Tartan Target posted:Edit: Also, I'm probably the only one who this bothered, but the whole "Jesus wept" bit is a mis-quote of a mis-quote. It should be Alexander, not Jesus (Jesus wasn't really about conquering anything)
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I figured that's what it was, but my robot-brain started working in smaller and smaller circles until I found myself obsessively reading Wikipedia entries about the quote. Jesus wept.
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I just watched them! I really liked them! But then I read the thread. I didn't know about Britta's backstory, and that's retroactively made that episode kinda lovely.  But lots of things are lovely, and hopefully future episodes don't ever mention Britta's parents so it'll just be forgotten. Yay! Also I didn't have any technical problems, the video quality was totally acceptable, and the Jimmy Fallon joke nearly killed me. Tartan Target posted:Also, exterior shots. I had no idea how much I missed them.
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While I didn't have a problem with the E2 Britta storyline, my partner, who is not a Harmontown fan, initially did, until I explained that the show was absolutely taking her side. See, Harmon is closer to Britta than to any of the other characters - check out how he basically describes his oppositional defiant disorder in a Rolling Stone interview from last year:Dan Harmon posted:I think probably the worst thing about my personality is that there must have been some huge dopamine or serotonin spike when I shamed my grade school principal, or the first time I told my Mom she couldn't make me clean my room. Those experiences were too emotionally formative for me. At the age of 41, I still think I'm addicted to the rush of proving to people that they can't control me. Harmon had some really abusive parents, like seriously brutally abusive, as he tells it. On Harmontown he's talked about coming to basically the same conclusion as Frankie, realizing that the parents he developed himself in opposition to are now harmless, relatively good-natured old people. While their present benign selves don't make up for what they did, they do call into question Harmon / Britta's entire personal worldview. If their two original tyrants aren't monsters, then no one is a monster, and no one gets to be a hero for fighting them, especially a decade or two after the other side stopped actually being oppressive. In essence, carrying the theme from the first episode, how do you define yourself when there's no longer a Big Bad to cast yourself against? Of course, one shouldn't have to be an obsessive Harmon fan like myself to understand the emotional conclusion of the episode, so that's definitely something of a shortcoming. Still, I really love where the season is going so far, pairing the grounded, character-based plots (and exteriors!) of S1 with the rich, layered comedy of the later seasons. Happy to see most of the thread seems to be in agreement, but I suppose we're still in the S6 honeymoon period.
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JesusFists posted:While I didn't have a problem with the E2 Britta storyline, my partner, who is not a Harmontown fan, initially did, until I explained that the show was absolutely taking her side. See, Harmon is closer to Britta than to any of the other characters - check out how he basically describes his oppositional defiant disorder in a Rolling Stone interview from last year: This is all accurate, but the problem with the episode is that none of that really shines unless your looking for it. Partly it's the childish way they have Britta explain herself, but it's largely because her character's credibility in sincere moments has been destroyed since season 1.
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JesusFists posted:While I didn't have a problem with the E2 Britta storyline, my partner, who is not a Harmontown fan, initially did, until I explained that the show was absolutely taking her side. See, Harmon is closer to Britta than to any of the other characters - check out how he basically describes his oppositional defiant disorder in a Rolling Stone interview from last year: I'm not a Harmontown follower and this definitely puts her characterization into context. But I took away pretty much what you wrote from the episode. I did like Jeff agreeing with her when she accused him of being a terrible friend, "Yeah, we are." Britta being the worst also seems like something coming straight from Harmon's phsyche.
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bowser posted:My favorite gag was during Frankie's introduction where Chang says in the background "Welcome back Professor Slater". I liked this joke too and wonder if they're ever going to reference that Paget Brewster has already been on the show as a different character
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I liked this joke too and wonder if they're ever going to reference that Paget Brewster has already been on the show as a different character I thought that joke was the reference?
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No, Prof Slater was Jeff's dark haired girlfriend from season 1, rival to Britta's affections.
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Yeah that was a different actress that just looks like her. Paget Brewster showed up for 30 seconds in an episode as a parking administrator or something like that
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She was IT administrator or something like that, but she wanted better parking in exchange for relaxing the porn filter for Nathan Fillion's character.
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Ravel posted:She was IT administrator or something like that, but she wanted better parking in exchange for relaxing the porn filter for Nathan Fillion's character. That he was actually on an episode as that character makes it even weirder to me that it went unreferenced.
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I'm with you guys. They missed an opportunity there. Remember in last season's re-pilot when Troy said, "Do you guys feel weird doing this without.. Magnitude?" He was looking right at PIERCE'S chair when he said it. They really missed an opportunity there to point out that Pierce, a character from previous seasons, was no longer on the show. welp. gonna go eat some paint chips.
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Out of all the weird things they did with characters over the seasons, I still think the fact that they made Shirley and Andre break up again as a throwaway line sucks the most. Andre wasn't perfect (Hell, he cheated) but I did like their reunion storyline in the earlier seasons.
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Zedd posted:Out of all the weird things they did with characters over the seasons, I still think the fact that they made Shirley and Andre break up again as a throwaway line sucks the most. I loved all his scenes. Troy interrogating him about Halloween, and his angry reaction to Troy and Abed's seemingly sardonic "normalcy"
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I loved that Britta's parents were Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren from Clue.
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Brawnfire posted:I loved all his scenes. Troy interrogating him about Halloween, and his angry reaction to Troy and Abed's seemingly sardonic "normalcy"
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GreenNight posted:I loved that Britta's parents were Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren from Clue. Missed opportunity- they were playing generic Trouble rather than Clue.
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