DVDs I have recently been rewatching
Mar. 19th, 2017 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessTo cheer myself up (because of a cloud that has been blown away, but I thought making myself laugh would be a good thing) I've been rewatching selected episodes of Community over the past week. It’s something I’ve been planning to do since seeing The Martian, actually, and it was fun, because there were things I’d forgotten (many of the tags, some of the darkness) and I’ve been chuckling about various things and seeing representations of dalmations everywhere and then that Childish Gambino song where he’s doing a falsetto was playing when I was out having a coffee...
The episodes i watched were:
Season 1: Interpretive Dance (the one where Britta dances like a watering can or a teapot and Troy helps her out); Modern Warfare (paintball!)
Season 2: Basic Rocket Science (which has this whole other layer thanks to Donald Glover’s post-show career now); Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design (for both the daft night school conspiracy theory lessons and the beginning of the blanket forts, although my selection process was a bit more random than that sounds); Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (the camera and the sound effects deserve props); Paradigms of Human Memory (the one with all the clips we never saw before and the fanvid swiping which makes me breathless with laughter); A Fistful of Paintballs/A Few Paintballs More (of course! And I don't think I'd fully grasped the intro cards for the characters being the cards for the game about Pierce before, or not so strongly, anyway.)
Season 3: Geography of Global Conflict (mainly selected it for Garrett yelling ‘Crisis Alert’ but it also features terrible protester Britta and terrible Security guard Chang having that thing); Studies in Modern Movement (Annie moves in with Abed and Troy while the Dean blackmails ‘Jeffrey’ into singing Seal's Kissed by a Rose) Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilance (a bit of anime and me being sure Abed would say Will Arnett is Batman now); Regional Holiday Music (the musical Christmas episode); Digital Exploration of Interior Design (mainly because I knew it set up blankets vs. pillows, but also it gave me Britta/Subway); Pillows and Blankets (I spent a lot of this episode and the last sighing ‘oh, boys’ at Abed and Troy, but also snickering at the translation of such low-level nonsense into material worthy of the stately documentary treatment); Virtual Systems Analysis (the one where Annie tries to matchmake, which Abed takes as ruining everything, but they come to a compromise and their English accents are terrible. I was delighted to see this episode through, because it always got skippy in the past).
And then l watched the commentary for the last ep, where they discussed the season 3 clippy show, and in trying to watch it, I watched most of ‘Basic Lupine Urology’ where the show does Law and Order and Star-burns gets killed; Course Listing Unavailable where ‘the Greendale seven’ incite a riot and Chang and his child soldiers over-react and Curriculum Unavailable where in trying to convince a (fake) psychiatrist that neither Abed nor they are crazy via clips that didn’t happen, we have the sequence where he almost convinces them they were in a mental institution and Greendale is a shared delusion – which, yeah, is dark, but the selected highlights of moments from the past three episodes as played in a version of a ward was very amusing, especially as I’d been rewatching some of them.
And today I watched The First Chang Dynasty, which I think I enjoyed more than I did the first time I saw it, and Introduction to Finality, which only half-works? Even for a show with a tonal baseline as weird as Community, the secret air con annexe and fraternity is just weird; Abed acting out without Troy probably needed more time to develop, but the ridiculous case at the court of justice works - and I didn't rewatch the whole of season 3 to pick up on what it was bringing together.
I want to wallow in Community fic – I do own season 4 on DVD, but haven’t cracked it open yet. We’ll see how I feel after finishin PoI (but they faked Star-burns death!). I'm still mired in links to post season 1 Jeff/Annie, for what it's worth.
The episodes i watched were:
Season 1: Interpretive Dance (the one where Britta dances like a watering can or a teapot and Troy helps her out); Modern Warfare (paintball!)
Season 2: Basic Rocket Science (which has this whole other layer thanks to Donald Glover’s post-show career now); Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design (for both the daft night school conspiracy theory lessons and the beginning of the blanket forts, although my selection process was a bit more random than that sounds); Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (the camera and the sound effects deserve props); Paradigms of Human Memory (the one with all the clips we never saw before and the fanvid swiping which makes me breathless with laughter); A Fistful of Paintballs/A Few Paintballs More (of course! And I don't think I'd fully grasped the intro cards for the characters being the cards for the game about Pierce before, or not so strongly, anyway.)
Season 3: Geography of Global Conflict (mainly selected it for Garrett yelling ‘Crisis Alert’ but it also features terrible protester Britta and terrible Security guard Chang having that thing); Studies in Modern Movement (Annie moves in with Abed and Troy while the Dean blackmails ‘Jeffrey’ into singing Seal's Kissed by a Rose) Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilance (a bit of anime and me being sure Abed would say Will Arnett is Batman now); Regional Holiday Music (the musical Christmas episode); Digital Exploration of Interior Design (mainly because I knew it set up blankets vs. pillows, but also it gave me Britta/Subway); Pillows and Blankets (I spent a lot of this episode and the last sighing ‘oh, boys’ at Abed and Troy, but also snickering at the translation of such low-level nonsense into material worthy of the stately documentary treatment); Virtual Systems Analysis (the one where Annie tries to matchmake, which Abed takes as ruining everything, but they come to a compromise and their English accents are terrible. I was delighted to see this episode through, because it always got skippy in the past).
And then l watched the commentary for the last ep, where they discussed the season 3 clippy show, and in trying to watch it, I watched most of ‘Basic Lupine Urology’ where the show does Law and Order and Star-burns gets killed; Course Listing Unavailable where ‘the Greendale seven’ incite a riot and Chang and his child soldiers over-react and Curriculum Unavailable where in trying to convince a (fake) psychiatrist that neither Abed nor they are crazy via clips that didn’t happen, we have the sequence where he almost convinces them they were in a mental institution and Greendale is a shared delusion – which, yeah, is dark, but the selected highlights of moments from the past three episodes as played in a version of a ward was very amusing, especially as I’d been rewatching some of them.
And today I watched The First Chang Dynasty, which I think I enjoyed more than I did the first time I saw it, and Introduction to Finality, which only half-works? Even for a show with a tonal baseline as weird as Community, the secret air con annexe and fraternity is just weird; Abed acting out without Troy probably needed more time to develop, but the ridiculous case at the court of justice works - and I didn't rewatch the whole of season 3 to pick up on what it was bringing together.
I want to wallow in Community fic – I do own season 4 on DVD, but haven’t cracked it open yet. We’ll see how I feel after finishin PoI (but they faked Star-burns death!). I'm still mired in links to post season 1 Jeff/Annie, for what it's worth.
