Episode reaction/recap for Advanced Introduction to Finality. I’m also explaining why I don’t have a problem with evil!Jeff/evil!Annie. (Warning: long. And image heavy.)
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May 10, 2013
I Can’t Right Now…
So let me see if I can get this straight…
We basically had a season finale that indicates that Annie’s “creepy obsession” with Jeff is not in the least bit one-sided.
This is not even taking into consideration that we’ve peeked inside Jeff’s head/heart at least three times over the course of two years, and, guess what, Annie is fairly prominent. And, yes, Jeff has been shown to be pretty discomforted overall that this is the case.
And can I just add: At the beginning of the season, Jeff was the one who was driving (or trying to drive) the couples’ costume and the ski trip. He jumped into volunteering to capture a whale for Greendale simply because Annie wanted it (and hung out with Pierce because Annie Disney-eyed him). He practically shared a brain with Annie through “Intro to Knots.”
Can someone please, please, please explain to me why Annie is the only one getting hit with the “creepy, obsessive one-sided crush” stick? Even in the wake of the finale?
Why the fuck is no one pointing out that it’s readily fucking apparent that Jeff is exactly in the same boat as Annie here? The only difference is that he’s a fuckload better at hiding it from his friends (and from Annie, coincidentally).
Why do I have a feeling that the writers could’ve had Jeff aggressively pursuing Annie across Greendale’s campus, and there would still be a whole bunch of critics and/or viewers who would somehow make it all about “Annie’s creepy, obsessive, one-sided crush?”
Oh, wait. It’s the whole: Women aren’t allowed to desire men thing, again, isn’t it?
May 10, 2013
appletiniandscotch asked: "Was I right? Or was I right?" Haha, you should've added the gif of Britta with the boombox.
I do not have the gif. *sadface*
But I did do the Snoopy dance on the reveal that it was in Jeff’s head.
May 10, 2013
anniedison asked: about Annie's "nobody sleeps with Jef"f thing,i didn't take it as a clibacy delcaration... i think Annie meant she doesn't want anybody to sleep with him,not even her own evil version... i thought it was like "if i can't be with him,why can you?" kind of thing; i think in Jeff's head he's thinking he likes Annie the ways she is and if someting happened between them,he'd want it the good way; idk if it makes much sense but that's what i got from it
I was making a joke about Jeff and celibacy (because, seriously…it’s Jeff).
I just thought that it was hilarious that in Jeff’s brain he put that stuff in real!timeline Annie’s mouth.
May 9, 2013
I called it!
I totally loved the finale. It was completely saved by the fact that it all takes place in Jeff’s head in the space of a minute.
Haters to the left.
And fixing my J/A shipper eyeshades here: There was very much a Jeff-of-it-All going on in Jeff’s head.
I would say the back-and-forth within the episode about whether J/A is a good thing or a bad thing definitely reflected the debate we’ve been told was happening in the writer’s room.
So, I’m actually gonna put on the shippy goggles, beause there was a lot I personally loved.
May 9, 2013
Jeff’s Graduation - Sneak Peek for Community 4.13, “Advanced Introduction to Finality” - airing tonight.
Okay, this preview for tonight’s episode is absolutely adorable. The characters actually sound like themselves.
Oh, Megan Ganz, I’m gonna miss you most of all…
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May 8, 2013
Anonymous asked: theories about Community's season finale?
I have nothing clever, unfortunately.
But, if you really want my talkin’-out-my-ass guess, the finale is either one of two things, both of which are predicated on the darkest timeline happening in Jeff’s head rather than Abed’s:
- The whole darkest timeline is Jeff having a nightmare as he wrestles with either returning to his old life or trying something new
- The whole darkest timeline is the result of the school being subjected to monkey gas poison courtesy of City College and Jeff is hallucinating the whole thing
Other predictions:
Jeff will wind up teaching law classes at Greendale.This is me rolling my eyes since Dan Harmon’s original plan was for all of the Study Group to leave Greendale for the real world, albeit at different rates.
All signs point to Shirley and Annie also graduating this year. Yeah, I’m confused about why Annie’s graduating since she changed major only this year. While it is possible for Annie to graduate a semester later than originally planned (graduating in December 2013 rather than May 2013) if she took an extra-heavy load, there’s no indication that she’s done that other than her repeated problems with getting decent grades in her History class.
All spoilers point to Troy and Britta remaining students at Greendale. There is no clear indication for Abed or Pierce leaving or staying at Greendale.
Ship-wise:
- The ending will be an OT7.
- The only shippers who’ll be truly happy are the Troy/Abed shippers since there will be no doubt their bro-hood will be re-affirmed.
- Both Annie/Jeff and Britta/Jeff shippers are going to be both comforted (that their respective ships weren’t definitively sunk in canon) and outraged (because other ship will not be definitively sunk and the other ship will somehow be perceived as having the “better” ending) by where their ships are left in canon when S4 Community ends.
May 2, 2013
Are people really this unaware?
Actual quote on my dashboard:
All the fighting over ships on this show!
I don’t understand why the most popular ship is the most popular ship!
There should be no ships! This show is great without ships! You’re all delusional!
*not any kind of pause later*
Except my ship! It’s the only ship that’s worth anything!
Dude, seriously?
At least make a separate post for that last line.
*laughing at you forever*
April 19, 2013
timeladyinstorybrooke asked: Hey! I'm asking you because you seem to know a lot about this stuff, so: could you provide me with a link to in what order the episodes of Community s4 were supposed to air? I'm planning to rewatch them that way after the season ends. Thanks!
The short answer: Here’s the wiki list of S4 Community episodes.
For most of the season, follow the episode production order until you hit the 411, 412, and 413 Trifecta. Those episodes were filmed out of order because of Chevy leaving the show, and because the puppet episode took more time to film.
Without a doubt “Advanced Introduction to Finality” is supposed to be last (411).
The question is the order “Heroic Origins (412)” and “Felt Surrogacy (413)” is supposed to fall in. Is “Felt Surrogacy” supposed to come right after “Basic Human Anatomy (410),” or does “Heroic Origins”?
Until you see the episodes, I’m not sure you can figure it out, although I think I read somewhere that “Felt Surrogacy” was like last year’s 8-bit episodes, in that it was designed to slip seamlessly into anywhere in the last five episodes of the season and not seem out of place, wherever it fell.
April 19, 2013
I Will Get to Your Asks…
However, I live in the lockdown area around Boston and I have to somehow, don’t ask me how, get back home.
Apparently if I want to sleep in my own bed I need to show I.D. at some point between getting off the MassPike and my house. *small yay*
Since I’ve finally figured out how to deal with asks, feel free to continue coming with them. Those that have submitted asks, I swear I will get to them.
April 19, 2013
mixologycertification asked: I go back and forth on what the tag meant (largely because of the Bobrow fiasco!) but your post was really enlightening and I loved it.
You’re welcome. I’m glad I could offer an alternate take.
The truth is, I never read “never” in Bobrow’s responses. I also never read that he believed that the age was necessarily issue, just that he thought that it was an issue for Jeff.
I’ll be honest, the only thing that ticked me off about Bobrow’s end of the whole Twitter mess was that he literally called an entire section of fandom pathological, when it was really about a half-dozen to a dozen people who were going nuts on him.
I think part of the issue is that emotions were running high because everyone was convinced that this was the last season, which is where the “never” comes in. However, NBC is such deep shit that Community just might come back for a fifth season.
If it does, the first step they need to take is to fire G&P, because they single-handedly landed the most damaging blow on S4 BY AIRING THE DAMN EPISODES OUT OF ORDER.
Seriously. Re-watch S4. In order. It doesn’t come close to approaching S1-3, but it does improve things, especially Annie’s very subtle storyarc this year. In a lot of ways, this Christmas episode was a culmination of what happened during the Convention episode.
There’s a reason why Jeff called back to it in his teasing.There’s a reason why Abed is suddenly focused on Jeff and Annie pairing off.
This episode was the closing part of the process where Annie gets on equal footing with Jeff. Remember, Jeff wouldn’t have even known there was “a crime” if Annie hadn’t noticed that Kevin couldn’t tie a bow. She was already reaching the logical conclusion when she looked at Jeff and Jeff solved the mystery itself.
Seriously. Bobrow did a much better job in this episode than people give him credit for.
I wonder if it’s because very few people have actually seen Rope, let alone watched it multiple times.
April 19, 2013
Anonymous asked: YES TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID. I was going to tell you to post this over at M/M but the ppl set to hate everything about season 4 will leave nonsense comments and this post is too good for that.
I’m thinking of posting a link to this in the episode thread because clearly, clearly, I’m living in opposite land on this. I personally didn’t see any kind of slap in the face to Jeff/Annie shippers. In fact, if you’re a Jeff/Annie shipper, you just got a pretty example of why Jeff and Annie actually work as partners, despite the age difference. Whether that’s romantic or platonic depends very much on your shipping goggles.
Plus, I’m still mystified how people keep forgetting one simple fact: THE DARKEST TIMELINE HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN ABED’S HEAD AND NOWHERE ELSE.
And what’s more, THE ONLY ONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS ABOUT IT IS BRITTA AND NO ONE ELSE.
There are spoilers that Britta does actually royally fuck up something towards the end of season that has an disparate impact that ripples out in a not-good way. A few people are speculating it has to do with Britta/Jeff re-igniting shortly before or after the Britta/Troy break-up.
I don’t think Britta’s fuck-up has anything to do with ships, shipping, or romance. I’m willing to bet that it has to do with Abed.
(Again, this is somewhat based on actually watching the episodes that have already aired IN THE ORDER THEY WERE INTENDED).
Which means that, by definition, everything in the darkest timeline is pretty much a reflection of Abed’s darkest impulses, darkest thoughts about his friends, and his overall issues. In short, it’s where Abed goes when he wants to think asshole thoughts about his friends.
I honestly feel that people are confusing Bobrow with the characters. I don’t know where he ultimately stands on Jeff/Annie, nor do I care. All I know is that he wrote a damn good Jeff/Annie episode, with cute interactions.
I also have a ton of think-y thoughts about how the airing order has been a massive problem this year. Maybe the defining problem, next to the shaky writing (and there has been a lot of it).
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