So hey I don't want to spend all my time here just crapping on the show because it's not like THE FOLLOWING or anything. I'll admit that I'm not really feeling it but my friends like it so I'll stick with it through at least the end of the season and I wanted to just tick off some things that the show is doing that I…

I don't see that at all. You're comparing two different shows who focus on different characters whereas I'm talking about two different shows where one focuses on the characters and the other does not. That's more than shuffling the details around; it's a fundamental difference in craft.

Not yet but I can say this for sure: They're admirably moving the plot along. A different crew behind the camera on this would probably want to languish in the weirdness too much.

Okay that's fine but derivative works can still be extremely high quality. FARGO (the tv show) being one of the most recent examples.

Dillon is bland in this role because the role itself is bland. Actors can only act well in parts that allow them to do so. All these characters are is exposition machines so there's no room to act when your only job is to stand there and explain what's going on to the audience. There's no difference between…

I thought pretending our replies had only the simplest of implications is what we were doing. This game is confusing.

I'm sorry for viciously recommending one of the best films of 2014 to you.

You consider this openly derivative work to be imaginative and new? Holy hell.

You mean it's going to utterly lack any semblance of the art and craft of storytelling? Yeah, that's pretty obvious.

Of course it was excellent, why else would I recommend it?

Except that you flat out told everyone that you dislike character exploration in favor of superficial mysteries.

I'm sorry that you need to be held by the hand in order to enjoy something. Might I recommend THE LEGO MOVIE?

Books only make great tv shows & films with a skilled hand at transliterating content. History is rife with examples of directors using books as a storyboard for their films and it doesn't work out because the interaction between the reader and a book is different than between viewer and film.

Well to be sure there are a few cases where the sequel is just straight up better and there's nothing weird about preferring it.

Season 4 failed hard because Dan Harmon understands the difference between characterization and true character and the JUST SHOOT ME guys treat characterization itself as the source of humor and didn't have any conception of real character.

Not that I disagree with you necessarily; but an ending in this sense is a culmination of your drama where all of your themes converge together in one final decision that the entire weight of the plot hinges on. SUPERNATURAL has this right there at the end of the 5th season. COMMUNITY's endings are just moments of…

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Necessarily new and different isn't to be conflated with being "off." I'm sorry that things have to change, if only they could always be the same forever (but also new forever).

Ben Chang has been so radically different in every season I'm really at a loss as to how you can say he's anything like any other character he plays. You're telling me that his characters in THE HANGOVER, THE DUFF, and DR. KEN are all the same as Chang? Come off it.

As far as I can tell it's only the people who loudly protest that they're only going to watch the first three seasons of Community that have their heads too far up their own asses with how clever they think they are.