08-20-2014, 07:58 PM
Precisely what I think about the weird schizo tone-shifts. They can never just let a heartwarming (HA! This show? HAAAAAA..... sob....) moment be without chopping its head off. It seems to be their way of trying to keep the show light. What they don't seem to realise is that they had everything exactly right before. NOW, they chuck in a bit of squick just about anywhere they can. Sheldon suggesting INFECTED GENETALIA as a turn-on for that Alex woman was a monumental low for me. And he toppled over the edge of sympathy completely as he got more and more insensitive and made deliberately offensive, obviously dodgy comments that he would surely be aware of if the characters really had "opened his eyes" to becoming a "real person."
As for the tone-epilepsy they seem to have going on, I'd like the show to end on a sad moment for once, without a stupid joke thrown in. It makes it all the more obvious that the writers and actors have very little faith in the likeability of the characters now. The ending of Community's season 2 is a sort of example of a nice "sad ending" because as much of a dick as Pierce was, the characters were still saddened by him leaving, especially since they had just been paintball-battling inside a strangely insular community college for about two days straight, and that's how the season ended. Given that we sort of got that similar downer "oh no, a main character's going" with Sheldon fucking off to the train station, I was hoping we'd have some sort of return of gravitas to the show. Yeah Pierce came back in the first ep of s3 and was still the same dicky racist homophobe as before, but the point is that most good comedy writers care enough about their characters to give them straight, poignant moments, without a "later losers!" or a poop joke added on.
As for the tone-epilepsy they seem to have going on, I'd like the show to end on a sad moment for once, without a stupid joke thrown in. It makes it all the more obvious that the writers and actors have very little faith in the likeability of the characters now. The ending of Community's season 2 is a sort of example of a nice "sad ending" because as much of a dick as Pierce was, the characters were still saddened by him leaving, especially since they had just been paintball-battling inside a strangely insular community college for about two days straight, and that's how the season ended. Given that we sort of got that similar downer "oh no, a main character's going" with Sheldon fucking off to the train station, I was hoping we'd have some sort of return of gravitas to the show. Yeah Pierce came back in the first ep of s3 and was still the same dicky racist homophobe as before, but the point is that most good comedy writers care enough about their characters to give them straight, poignant moments, without a "later losers!" or a poop joke added on.
HARRISON FORD IS IRRADIATING OUR TESTICLES WITH MICROWAVE SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS
AND WHO THE FUCK STOLE MY BOILED EGGS?
AND WHO THE FUCK STOLE MY BOILED EGGS?