respect yoaz.OMG
haha, but so true.
just fair warning to my friends, i’m going to be working this into conversation.
I laughed do hard at this.
You know that bit a few days ago where I volunteered to write an Inspector Spacetime bit for Community if they took Karen G up on her offer to guest-Amy-Pond it?
That statement is, I am afraid, no longer operative.
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
If the new team produces funny episodes, Twitter’s opinion might not matter.
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Josef Adalian of Vulture.com No. That is not how this fanbase works, and if you don’t know that —as clearly, NBC and Sony don’t know that— then you are sorely, sorely uninformed. Community doesn’t work like other sitcoms. It’s not just a show about appealing to the lowest denominator with the most blunt jokes. Community already has its own sense of humor, and it’s not one that everyone gets. We know that, and that’s part of why we love this show with the passion that we do. It’s our kind of humor. Its our kind of show in a sea of shows that are everyone else’s. The other reason we love this show is the insane, ridiculous, alienating, passionate, nigh-incomprehensible amount of heart that it has. None of us have stuck around this long just because of the jokes. None of us. We stuck because this is a show makes us cry and scream and lose our minds with the characters and the stories that it’s built up, and the building up is the important part. We are attached and long since have been, and that’s what makes the emotional backbone of this show what it is. Unless the new writers are willing to go all in with doing what’s right by the story and the characters that kept us here, it won’t matter how funny other people find the new episodes. The show would lose us if it lost its heart, and we’re the ones who fought the hardest and the longest to keep this show in the first place. Now, I know that there’s a chance this isn’t a disaster. Harmon could continue to contribute and keep it on track and/or the new writers could actually do right by the world that’s been set up already. It’s not impossible. I’ve seen Happy Endings, and while it’s not exactly my kind of show, it’s well done for being what it is. If the new guys are willing to adapt, this could go well enough. Some of my favorite shows have gone through similar power changes and survived. Hell, some of my favorite television ever is the third/third-and-half/fourth season of Due South, and that show went through a whole mess of changes.* I’m not saying that this can’t go well, but it just won’t go well if “Needs to be funnier to more people” is the only direction from which this new run is approached. That is just not how this show works. (via imaginearianne) ADDING TO THIS. Please find me ONE showrunner who loves and pays attention to their fanbase like dan. JUST FUCKING ONE. You will be looking forever because Dan is one of a kind. We are a family and he is part of that family. He’s shared his life with us and welcomed us into his world and gotten us involved and communicated constantly with us. We don’t just fucking leave family behind and pretend like everything is peaches and cream. It won’t be the same without Dan, even if it is salvageable. NBC said that they wanted to get rid of him to open up the fanbase and make the show more accessible, essentially…cutting out the reasons Community is so unique and beloved in the first place. (via reekrhymes)
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It’s a question of narrative function. She should be discussed as one—but that should not be where the discourse ends.
Cersei does awful things and the story doesn’t apologize for this. Examining her is not an act of apology: her narrative function is predicated on the reliable awfulness of her…
So much this. She (along with Sansa and Brienne) represent the best of ASOIAF.
fandom march madness feels:
- there’s a borgias bracket
- and lucrezia is sweeping that shit
- beautiful.
This is maybe the most beautiful thing ever.
An Eye for a Skittle
The punishment should always be proportionate to the crime. For example, it would be proportionate to kill someone if they stole your candy.
#it also occurred to me that she is one of the few female protagonists in the action movies i’ve seen that has actually been useful #AND witty #after watching indiana jones and seeing all those swooning damsels evy is pretty fucking refreshing #she’s girly but she’s allowed #because she’s evy motherfucking carnahan #AND SHE… IS A LIBRARIAN.
^ THIS#Evie is an action herione who gets to be funny and dorky and goofy and beautiful and smart and EFFECTIVE
YES! To all those things. Her history is explained while everyone else has a blank slate of a past. The film starts with her. The film’s plot is moved forward by HER actions (sparing Rick’s life/reading from the book)
She also gets scared and that’s totally okay. EVERYONE is scared. EVERYONE screams and I never get the sense that she is the victim in a horror film despite the similarities with slasher flicks (the villian’s obsession with her). She doesn’t fight physically (but there’s no wrong way to be a girl and not being a fighter doesn’t mean yuo are not strong) instead she uses her mind/translating skills to tell Jonathan that it’s a STORK, goddammit!
Yeah, I actually really love this movie. No shame. I really liked the remakes they were doing of all the old classic horror films from the 30’s. I wish they would do more (like Frankenstein could be pretty cool).
So much this.
