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i'm soo happy Community doesn't have that fake laugh ****... 
i hated all those scenes!
i hated all those scenes!
NBC's Community Thread - 6/2 - Ep. 13: "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television"
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Honestly, I'm not gonna act like this show was perfect before Harmon left and could do no wrong. I remember from season 1 and each one after ppl nitpicking or outright saying some eps were really bad and not funny at all, opinion were not far from saying the show jumped the shark or it wasn't that good to begin with and over hyped. This is as recent as last season. It was like ppl were waiting for the show to start sucking or looking for eps to prove it's not as funny or clever as ppl said it was.
I feel you're overreacting here. It's not the same but it wasn't that bad.^and there it is, Big J.
I didn't tune in and feel I was watching a brand new show with a lot of familiar faces to the point it felt everything was done differently.
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They're going too far with the sus Dean thing. Now it's just annoying.
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You new to Community? They been going too far since the end of S1.
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Other than the cameras and lighting it felt pretty normal. I'm a little upset they didn't dive deeper with the dean games. I'm not mad at the laugh track, that was Abed's happy place. Abed being a movie and tv buff means he is in to many genres, I don't think him being into a traditional sitcom is that farfetched. It's something that hasn't been explored before and it shouldn't be reoccurring.
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Of course a premiere after such a long layoff won't be a true reflection, but the ratings were up 6% over last season's premiere, 4 million and a 1.8 in the demo.
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damn...community is soo wack. Like I really enjoyed that video game episode and a couple others but they play off this abed being a person with possible autism thing way too much.
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It used to be funny, in a "this guy's kinda really crazy" kind of way.Been going on for a while now
Now it's freaky because his whole stalking Jeff thing is getting creepier and creepier.
Although, one of the funniest scenes in the show was when Jeff put the aviators on and the Dean just lost it.
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You gone have to face the fact that you werent paying attention to it. There's a episode where they're practically on a dateIt used to be funny, in a "this guy's kinda really crazy" kind of way.Been going on for a while now
Now it's freaky because his whole stalking Jeff thing is getting creepier and creepier.
Although, one of the funniest scenes in the show was when Jeff put the aviators on and the Dean just lost it.
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Yea, I ran through all 3 seasons last week, in terms of Dean Pelton in last nights premier, it wasn't even OD in my eyes. He's been on some weird ish prior to last night
I actually liked the laugh track., didn't even throw me off or anything, I had a feeling that it would be a temporary ploy to throw us off.
I actually liked the laugh track., didn't even throw me off or anything, I had a feeling that it would be a temporary ploy to throw us off.
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I don't know why but the laugh track made me a bit angry too
I thought it was solid episode. Dean and Jeff living close is not good to me. But hopefully its a few episodes not a main thing. Troy and Britta relationship, okay. Annie trying to get Jeff, okay.
Pierce trying to figure out a joke.
I thought it was solid episode. Dean and Jeff living close is not good to me. But hopefully its a few episodes not a main thing. Troy and Britta relationship, okay. Annie trying to get Jeff, okay.
Pierce
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[h1]The Critics Are Turning on 'Community'[/h1]
Esther Zuckerman | Feb 7, 2013
Perhaps this is finally the end of Community, or at least the small but virulent fervor that surrounds it. We can't say we didn't see this coming — our Richard Lawson wrote back in October that the show should just die already. But NBC's three-and-a-half-year-old sitcom was always bit of a unicorn: critically acclaimed with a rabid fan base (see: the Community subreddit) but constantly at odds with the network, and even to some extent itself. On Thursday night Community embarks upon its long delayed fourth season (the Halloween episode is airing on Valentine's Day!) with new showrunners taking the place of hailed-as-crazy-genius creator Dan Harmon, and many of the show's lauded writers are gone as well. Now, as eagerly as fans may anticipate its return, the reviews have been mixed to very bad. Even critics — once a major part of upholding the Community cult — are upset at their own reactions to the show:
With the network suffering, and this spate of bad/tepid/disappointed response to new episodes, Community's departure seems more and more inevitable, even though one of the new showrunners, David Guarascio, told The Hollywood Reporter that he's "feeling very confident about a season five." In the world of Community, who really knows? But let's take a look at what's wrong, at least according to today's critical 180:
It's Not As Smart Anymore
Mike Hale of the New York Times savaged the show in his review in today's paper. He starts by saying that, before Harmon's departure, Community was "unapologetically smart." Now it's been "dumbed down, its humor broadened past recognition."
It's Not Funny
Hale, who is by far the most voracious critic of these new episodes, charges that the laughs are gone. He writes:
It's Trying Too Hard
James Poniewozik of Time explains that the so-so (not terrible) episodes "play like they were created by very talented writers who prepared by reading Community's IMDB description." Poniewozik makes the case that a number of shows (The West Wing is one) lost their creators but then went in different, equally interesting directions. Here, there is no such direction. Alan Sepinwall at HitFix has a similar take, explaining that the early episodes "feel like everyone is trying much too hard to recapture some lightning that flowed out of the bottle when Harmon left."
It's A "Zombie" Version of Community
That's the way Andy Greenwald describes the new episodes in his take for Grantland. He explains that "there's a Stepford quality to it all," as easy and obvious choices are made in trying to sustain the characters' special brand of weirdness.
Where do we go from here? There's still an entire season to get through, but if the fans cry foul, then what does Community have left?
My hope is that it does turn out like West Wing, where it was basically all the things people are saying about Community, but slowly they made it into something else, it got another season and really made something that was it's own thing, that worked..
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Have these critics already seen the entire season?
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I'm a huge fan of the show. HUGE!
BUT...after watching the episode thursday, I was disappoint. Very.
Literally, the only time I even chuckled was when Troy and Britta was fighting in the little wish pond. & I watched the episode twice.
It was just...so forced imo.
I have hope it'll be good again though.
BUT...after watching the episode thursday, I was disappoint. Very.
Literally, the only time I even chuckled was when Troy and Britta was fighting in the little wish pond. & I watched the episode twice.
It was just...so forced imo.
I have hope it'll be good again though.
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The only "forced" part of the show was the Troy and britta scene in the pond imo and i'm also a huge fan.I thought this episode was awesome and had the same rhythm has the other episodes.
The laughing audience and the new pierce guy in the beginning were hilarious. It was community's way of trolling to us fans.
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The feel is so...different. Just wasn't as smart as it always was. It was an okay episode, but it just wasn't the Community I've grown to love.
Hope things get better as the season goes on.
Hope things get better as the season goes on.
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Aint gon lie I thought they Aunt Viv'ed buddy
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I believe Todd VanDerWeff from the AV club said they received episodes 1 and 3 screeners.
I saw a writers interview saying they tried to do too much with the premiere and it's not an accurate reflection.
I saw a writers interview saying they tried to do too much with the premiere and it's not an accurate reflection.
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Episode was ok... It definitely had a different feel to it.
Looking forward to next weeks though
Looking forward to next weeks though
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Have these critics already seen the entire season?
We know they can only comment on what they've seen.
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Damn not ever episode can be the trampoline or fake class episode guys geeeze
