With the way things have been going recently, I'm not even looking forward to the next season of Community, and beyond. Was my favorite show... Agreed with a previous poster that I don't believe Chevy is in the wrong.
I watched the first half of season 1 over again and I can truly say that the show was great at first... since about season 2 and all of 3 it's been awful after it turned into "Abed & Troy's esoteric comedy show"
I don't see the show surviving this. Chevy Chase was still the biggest name in the cast, and for a show barely hanging on, there's no reason to keep it around.
They overdid the Troy/Abed stuff at times, and the back end of the third season went completely off the wall, but I was okay with it. They thought they were getting cancelled for sure and just went, "**** it". I wouldn't want it to become the norm , though.
What I didn't like was Troy and Britta making googly eyes at one another all damn season. I felt like this show should have been above that sort of teenagey crap.
I would agree that the show bowing out after these 13 episodes is probably for the best. While all shows that go beyond their shelf-life are painful to watch, I really think one that often delves into the eccentric like Community would be an excruciating train wreck if it hung around too long. Now that a principle cast member is walking out, it seems the time is right to go out on a high (well, hopefully on a high).
Besides, they've been doing this one season taking place over one year thing, so what are they going to do? Have them attending community college for 6-7 years? Coming back as teachers? Ugh, gross.
When people say stuff like he's the funniest one in the cast, I cringe like crazy, but in the show's peak/special episodes, Pierce is suddenly a great character, and one of the better ones-- so he's deinitely not useless. He's awful the rest of the time though.
He's been the group's antagonist since season two. How exactly is that no role? He constantly brings the rest of the group together.
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Originally Posted by LightningStrikes
I liked Community more before the characters were forced into certain roles (Pierce = villain, Britta = dumb and annoying, and so on).
There's this, as well as Chang being a better villain. They could find any other actor to come on and be the villain. Don't need Chase to be that guy at all.
When people say stuff like he's the funniest one in the cast, I cringe like crazy, but in the show's peak/special episodes, Pierce is suddenly a great character, and one of the better ones-- so he's deinitely not useless. He's awful the rest of the time though.
Agreed on everything here.
Pierce certainly has his moments of greatness, but he's the most inconsistent character on the show.
I had no hopes for Season 5 to begin with, so this doesn't really change that. His departure may bring the cost down enough for it to be a consideration, though...NBC is going to have a lot of shows to replace next year so sticking with it (at an even further reduced budget) may be in the cards just out of convenience...but I'm not holding my breath.
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