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shallowness) wrote2014-07-20 07:32 am
shallowness) wrote2014-07-20 07:32 am
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Still working my way gradually through Community season 3. Still sticking to three things* about each episode. Spoilers up to 'Contemporary Impressionists' (is that 3.11?) 3.08 to 3.11 was a pretty good run, I thought.
Documentary Film-making: Redux
Hopefully, when I get around to watching the commentary, all my questions of what Luis Guizman makes of the show will be answered. McHale playing Jeff playing the Dean was really amusing. Britta and Troy and the hugging was epic (I will always have a soft spot for them).
Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilanteism
FAVOURITE EPISODE OF SEASON 3 SO FAR.
Perfectly balanced between the two strands and the callbacks and forward movement. Jeff and Shirley's previously unknown history and relationship with the game was perfect, and then they went up a notch for the anime inserts at just the right time. And then the Annie-Abed-Troy hi-jinx that we were hoping for, except the return of Abed as Batman was an unexpected delight for me because I thought the vigilanteism was something to do with security guard!Chang, especially because of more roleplaying!Abed/Annieness, and how I totally felt for Abed over the DVD being broken.
A few more things: excellent tag, we needed something so quotidian after all the heightenedness, and I love their commitment to bringing what seemed like an offhand reference to life. This is another episode involving primal screaming - I mean there must be a supercut of all the characters screaming. Although what topped that for me was when Brie more or less impersonated a kettle coming to boil.
Regional Holiday Music
All the Glee hate and the references to the Study Group stepping in and tid-bits of them singing had to lead to this. The way the songs were a. staged (Abed and Troy's rap!) b. performed and c. snarked at the commercial way Christmas is presented (Baby Boomer Santa! Annie's take-off of Santa Baby-type songs were a delight. And I loved that it was again about Abed's love of Christmas and need for the others to be his family.
Contemporary Impressionists
Kudos for puttling off such serious stuff (Abed and Jeff's issues and Troy and Britta's care-taking roles as friends) in the middle of such typical daftness. Of course, Abed would go into a debt spiral in this way; Britta would use a terrible metaphor; Jeff would Hulk out; and Chang would try to create his own little army of kids. Also, was that ACTUAL Moby, because I did spend a lot of the Greendale advert episode thinking of that similiarity?
*not really
Documentary Film-making: Redux
Hopefully, when I get around to watching the commentary, all my questions of what Luis Guizman makes of the show will be answered. McHale playing Jeff playing the Dean was really amusing. Britta and Troy and the hugging was epic (I will always have a soft spot for them).
Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilanteism
FAVOURITE EPISODE OF SEASON 3 SO FAR.
Perfectly balanced between the two strands and the callbacks and forward movement. Jeff and Shirley's previously unknown history and relationship with the game was perfect, and then they went up a notch for the anime inserts at just the right time. And then the Annie-Abed-Troy hi-jinx that we were hoping for, except the return of Abed as Batman was an unexpected delight for me because I thought the vigilanteism was something to do with security guard!Chang, especially because of more roleplaying!Abed/Annieness, and how I totally felt for Abed over the DVD being broken.
A few more things: excellent tag, we needed something so quotidian after all the heightenedness, and I love their commitment to bringing what seemed like an offhand reference to life. This is another episode involving primal screaming - I mean there must be a supercut of all the characters screaming. Although what topped that for me was when Brie more or less impersonated a kettle coming to boil.
Regional Holiday Music
All the Glee hate and the references to the Study Group stepping in and tid-bits of them singing had to lead to this. The way the songs were a. staged (Abed and Troy's rap!) b. performed and c. snarked at the commercial way Christmas is presented (Baby Boomer Santa! Annie's take-off of Santa Baby-type songs were a delight. And I loved that it was again about Abed's love of Christmas and need for the others to be his family.
Contemporary Impressionists
Kudos for puttling off such serious stuff (Abed and Jeff's issues and Troy and Britta's care-taking roles as friends) in the middle of such typical daftness. Of course, Abed would go into a debt spiral in this way; Britta would use a terrible metaphor; Jeff would Hulk out; and Chang would try to create his own little army of kids. Also, was that ACTUAL Moby, because I did spend a lot of the Greendale advert episode thinking of that similiarity?
*not really