Community, TBBT, B99, New Girl, Scandal
Mar. 1st, 2014 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quarter_to_fiveGod help me, I watch a lot of tv.
ok, I may ship Duncan/Britta a little. IDEK. And I loved Chang stumbling into putting on a one-man play even more than I loved him stumbling into ghosts. And the tag! Oh my god the tag. That had me on the floor, and possibly crying a little. I'm a touch ambivalent about the Abed/Hickey stuff. I like it when they go dark with Abed, but I also feel like Abed is a character the show kind of...indulges in? Does that make any sense? This is probably colored a lot by my fondness for TBBT, which is a lot more habitually cruel to the same kind of character, so the way Community treats Abed often looks a little toothless and pandering to me.
This one mostly worked though. Abed's insigtfulness vs. his selfishness would seem to out of place, but the whole show is so meta and self-aware I can kind of forgive it, and I liked the whole parallel of him just spewing stuff - foam, secrets, insights, emotions, whatever - simply because it pleased him in the moment, with no thought to consequences. I guess It can be looked at in the light of Troy leaving as well, that that friendship had done a lot to soften the rougher edges of him, and now he was lashing out a little. (Of course, them teaming up at the end is sentimental tripe of the worst kind, but I would say that.)
There's my bleak, undignified, human-condition examining show again! Who's a good weird little sitcom? Sure, sure, I cheered as much as anyone for last episodes mushy romantic stuff, but this is what allows that, so yay for TBBT not suddenly turning into sunshine and rainbows. Everyone is small and selfish and terrible. Except the people trying to tell Howard not to go into space again, who do it by insulting him, basically. "Your stuff is wrong," was...a little devastating. Probably because it's true. I love this show. And regret nothing!
I seem to be in a minority that saw the Boyle/Diaz stuff here as being shippy again?
I wish I could see what you all see, with them moving to a healthy friend/colleague relationship, but it totally looked like Diaz is pining after Boyle now and it will all come to a head at his wedding in the season finale. I hope not, but i'm a jaded cynic.
Peralta and Gina growing up together makes sense to me, even if it is a retcon. Of course he got her the job, finally something makes sense! I also like that Peralta seems to have a few decent friendships with women - DIaz, Gina - that are really devoid of romantic tension and built on a kind of mix of mutual dysfunctionality and respect rather than any sort of genius wrangler dynamic.
I haven't liked this season much, but Abbie is bringing out the worst in Jess and the worst in Schmidt and i'm kind of into that. This tension of whether Schmidt is going to just drive himself to self-destruct into a slimy ball of human wreckage eventually seems to be on the table again, and that I'll watch. Coach really isn't working for me thought, and I miss Cece. But not Cece with Coach. And for the love of, figure out what you're doing with Winston! He's too good to waste on this kind of nonsense.
Not a lot to say, except how much do I love that Sally really is this raging zealot and a cynical ambitious politician all at the same time? So much. She can swing from talking about polling numbers to talking about the righteous wrath of god in one sentence in exactly the same tone, and it's all equally real to her. Man, that scene was riveting. She's riveting. Give her a plot with Mellie, please please please!
I'm scared for James though. This is not the time to discover you still have a soul, dude! And I admit I got a good laugh from Quinn kidnapping a child with candy! It's just such an iconically, ridiculously villainous thing to do. Olivia and Mellie smiling for the cameras was reasonably amusing as well.
ok, I may ship Duncan/Britta a little. IDEK. And I loved Chang stumbling into putting on a one-man play even more than I loved him stumbling into ghosts. And the tag! Oh my god the tag. That had me on the floor, and possibly crying a little. I'm a touch ambivalent about the Abed/Hickey stuff. I like it when they go dark with Abed, but I also feel like Abed is a character the show kind of...indulges in? Does that make any sense? This is probably colored a lot by my fondness for TBBT, which is a lot more habitually cruel to the same kind of character, so the way Community treats Abed often looks a little toothless and pandering to me.
This one mostly worked though. Abed's insigtfulness vs. his selfishness would seem to out of place, but the whole show is so meta and self-aware I can kind of forgive it, and I liked the whole parallel of him just spewing stuff - foam, secrets, insights, emotions, whatever - simply because it pleased him in the moment, with no thought to consequences. I guess It can be looked at in the light of Troy leaving as well, that that friendship had done a lot to soften the rougher edges of him, and now he was lashing out a little. (Of course, them teaming up at the end is sentimental tripe of the worst kind, but I would say that.)
There's my bleak, undignified, human-condition examining show again! Who's a good weird little sitcom? Sure, sure, I cheered as much as anyone for last episodes mushy romantic stuff, but this is what allows that, so yay for TBBT not suddenly turning into sunshine and rainbows. Everyone is small and selfish and terrible. Except the people trying to tell Howard not to go into space again, who do it by insulting him, basically. "Your stuff is wrong," was...a little devastating. Probably because it's true. I love this show. And regret nothing!
I seem to be in a minority that saw the Boyle/Diaz stuff here as being shippy again?
I wish I could see what you all see, with them moving to a healthy friend/colleague relationship, but it totally looked like Diaz is pining after Boyle now and it will all come to a head at his wedding in the season finale. I hope not, but i'm a jaded cynic.
Peralta and Gina growing up together makes sense to me, even if it is a retcon. Of course he got her the job, finally something makes sense! I also like that Peralta seems to have a few decent friendships with women - DIaz, Gina - that are really devoid of romantic tension and built on a kind of mix of mutual dysfunctionality and respect rather than any sort of genius wrangler dynamic.
I haven't liked this season much, but Abbie is bringing out the worst in Jess and the worst in Schmidt and i'm kind of into that. This tension of whether Schmidt is going to just drive himself to self-destruct into a slimy ball of human wreckage eventually seems to be on the table again, and that I'll watch. Coach really isn't working for me thought, and I miss Cece. But not Cece with Coach. And for the love of, figure out what you're doing with Winston! He's too good to waste on this kind of nonsense.
Not a lot to say, except how much do I love that Sally really is this raging zealot and a cynical ambitious politician all at the same time? So much. She can swing from talking about polling numbers to talking about the righteous wrath of god in one sentence in exactly the same tone, and it's all equally real to her. Man, that scene was riveting. She's riveting. Give her a plot with Mellie, please please please!
I'm scared for James though. This is not the time to discover you still have a soul, dude! And I admit I got a good laugh from Quinn kidnapping a child with candy! It's just such an iconically, ridiculously villainous thing to do. Olivia and Mellie smiling for the cameras was reasonably amusing as well.
