Does Anyone Else Watch COMMUNITY? — Page 19

I didn't like last week's but tonight's episode was very strong. Definitely better than the premiere.

Honestly, I can't stand the dean. He was only in it for twenty seconds tonight and it was SO much stronger without him. I wish they'd dump that character, or at least keep him to a brief cameo each week. Nothing against the actor, either - I just hate the character.

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Yeah, jason, I don't think you're gonna get a lot of support in that. If you'd said Chang I would have agreed with you.

Was he in this episode? Haven't seen it yet, but it's recorded.

I never truly thought of Chang as a bad or annoying character. Just a drastically less fantastic character than the rest.

All the reviews I've read of this episode just savaged it. I think the internets is over the show.

I feel like people cannot get out of their head that Dan Harmon (and actually a number of writers) is gone and that anybody put in their place (even if these new show-runners had worked with the Russo Brothers, who deserve some amount of credit for this show, previously on kindred spirit show Happy Endings) are dead in the water already because they are performing NBC's marching orders to be broader. It admittedly took me the second viewing to enjoy the show more. It took Dan Harmon a while to be Dan Harmon weird, so that this first episode felt like some pretender or imitation feels a little too rough on a show that most mainstream critics never really got into until latter Season 2 and Season 3.

We seem to forget Season 1's entire trajectory and just remember the weirdness post-Paintball episode on forward. Season 3 was a threshold of the weirdness, even as somebody who dug the Ken Burns homages and Law & Order episode, so I guess there is a bit whiplash in there being some level of normalcy, but let's not act like this show is the most broad comedy on the NBC Thursday lineup.

And Dean is a great character and his growing role was welcomed. I got nothing against Ken Jeong, Chang is just a spottily-written character, but John Oliver's Professor Duncan being written out that indirectly led to Dean getting written in more in the series was a welcomed change.

For what it's worth, I thought it was funny that people were so excited over last week's numbers.

I mean, barring some sort of deus ex machina, the show is dead at this point anyway, isn't it? They've already finished shooting (not like anyone really expected NBC to order more episodes for the season) , NBC more or less abandoned it three years ago, and the vast majority of its fanbase (those of us here excluded) seems to be wishing it would be gone already.

I may just stop reading ANYTHING about this show online anymore and just try to enjoy whatever time we have left with it.

Updated On: 2/16/13 at 12:11 AM

Well, according to everyone (hyperbolicly!) it already has!

I totally agree. And you're right about it always being like this. I even remember last year people would complain about how the a show one week wasn't as good as the week before.

I mean, I get that maybe I'm just being too rosy about the show and I'm in a "I'm gonna love it no matter what" place, but I really wish the majority of people talking about the show (again, all of us excluded) would just STFU.

For those wishing on a baby tooth that they'll do a Dean-less and Chang-less episode soon, your tooth has not been in vain tonight.

It really was. At first, I thought it was because the gang was so separated, but I remembered that episode last season where Annie was moving in with Troy and Abed, Britta and Shirley picked up a hitchhiker named Jesus, and Jeff and Dean sang romantic karaoke. And that was great! This was not so great!

I did like the cameos at the end, and generally I always like Matt Lucas. It just felt kinda like a dud.