I think we're seeing an alternate auteur theory, the anti-auteur almost, which builds on conventions rarely seen in film. He's handing directors subplots written by people outside their team, possibly that he's writing himself and managing details of the film. It's the sort of thing I've typically only seen in comic…

I think it was meant to be funny but I'm not sure it was a joke. I think they literally meant that to be him coming out. I'll also lay heavy odds that was written with Pierce in mind and that they always intended for Pierce to turn out to be a repressed homosexual who discovers it in the end.

The Darkest Timeline Study Group shows up on Rick and Morty. (They could actually cross between universes on that show. No dream sequence needed.)

So. Bionic Six?

You're defining auteur in the cinematic context though. Old Hollywood actors weren't the 'author' of their films but they had probably more clout than all but the best of directors and maybe even then. They were the creative power.

I wasn't entirely clear on whether we're talking about a spinoff like Saved by the Bell: The New Class or a spinoff that's totally different.

When you get into the deep end of interpreting FWWM, there's a very strong case that there's a time travel plot there where the prequel events are being influenced by events from the end of the series. For instance, Laura, pre-death, receives a gift that comes from Heather Graham's character after the events of the…

Sure, they're auteur driven. The director is simply not the auteur driving things in the Marvel movies. Kevin Feige is. The director is more like a star performer who gets to put in their flourishes in a Kevin Feige project.

I'm reading three books on screenwriting right now (literally, back and forth cramming) and one is specifically on comedy. I beg to differ. I think comedy has its own tropes and its own rhythm. I think the idea that a story is a story is deeply flawed.

Heck, Abed's had more of a romantic relationship with Annie than Troy has over the past six seasons.

In my meandering thinking about this finale, I think I hit on a point I'll repeat here and it's not something I'd typically advocate with a show:

Which contribution?

I thought about it and realized that was our final Brittaing of something. She took something that could only be that funny once and kept running with it.

I felt like Chang was given Pierce's arc here. That really would have been a perfect final realization by Pierce with his various turns on the "gay" putdown, troubled relationship with his father, accusations of other people being gay, and the episode where he became a gay icon.

The balls it would take to continue after that finale would be staggering, which is the one reason I could see Dan doing it.

I've been saying that I hope they use Rabum Alal and the Black Swans in GOTG 2. They could basically never give us the backstory but, honestly, Doom is a character who keeps getting tripped up by attempts to normalize and define his backstory for a cinematic audience.

I was thinking along similar lines although I hadn't nailed down a casting choice. That's fairly spot on.

Nielson has issues with wild under-reporting by several orders of magnitude and not consistently in any kind of way where the real numbers can be extrapolated; they tend to favor certain kinds of audiences. This is fairly well known, not just in TV but in publishing. Networks also pay them to re-run numbers, which…

I hate you.

Well, that sounds fairly final. On the flipside, it looks like Icecube Head is the Great Gazoo of Community's imaginary season 7.