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windupbasiliskI'm surprised by the degree to which Community has become one of my happy places! I wasn't even going to watch it at first—I like The Soup okay, but I've never been a big fan of it, and like everyone else I also wasn't sure if Joel McHale was going to be able to pull off actual acting.
But, oh man, so much glee in Thursday's ep! Starting with the ridiculous meta plot, which makes me giggle like nothing else. Guyz, Abed is a fanfic writer now! The crackbunny I had a little before the ep, about him becoming a slasher, is now like three inches away from actual canon.
And then the tag! And its even-more-blatant-than-usual slashy fanservice! Fake!Troy and Fake!Abed can neither of them capture the magic inherent in their counterparts and the way it frustrated Troy so much was loltastic and SO SLASHY, OMG.
Jeff/Annie felt surprisingly unforced to me, despite the setup; I think their self-consciousness is what sold me. Also, shallowly, I did not know that Joel McHale had arms, mmm. And then Annie's Machiavellian streak not only won through but actually paid off for once! I love her barely hidden passive-agressiveness thiiiiismuch.
(While I'm hardly that up on disability issues, I also liked that the guy in a wheelchair got to be a guy who mostly just happened to be in a wheelchair. The show is far from perfect politically (let's please give Shirley a nonstereotypical character trait sometime ever), but it's a lot better than it could be & it keeps on throwing me pleasant surprises like that one.)
But, oh man, so much glee in Thursday's ep! Starting with the ridiculous meta plot, which makes me giggle like nothing else. Guyz, Abed is a fanfic writer now! The crackbunny I had a little before the ep, about him becoming a slasher, is now like three inches away from actual canon.
And then the tag! And its even-more-blatant-than-usual slashy fanservice! Fake!Troy and Fake!Abed can neither of them capture the magic inherent in their counterparts and the way it frustrated Troy so much was loltastic and SO SLASHY, OMG.
Jeff/Annie felt surprisingly unforced to me, despite the setup; I think their self-consciousness is what sold me. Also, shallowly, I did not know that Joel McHale had arms, mmm. And then Annie's Machiavellian streak not only won through but actually paid off for once! I love her barely hidden passive-agressiveness thiiiiismuch.
(While I'm hardly that up on disability issues, I also liked that the guy in a wheelchair got to be a guy who mostly just happened to be in a wheelchair. The show is far from perfect politically (let's please give Shirley a nonstereotypical character trait sometime ever), but it's a lot better than it could be & it keeps on throwing me pleasant surprises like that one.)
