Scots Taffer on 21/5/2012 at 09:38
I'm smiling at that story!
Morte on 21/5/2012 at 10:44
Kicking Harmon but keeping Community on might be perfect as a stab in the pancreas, but it's utterly retarded as a business move. The show is what it is because it's *so* tied to Harmon's perspective. Either keep or can both. Community is not going to expand outside it's cult following in the fourth season anyway, and all this can do is make its following to turn on it.
SubJeff on 21/5/2012 at 13:42
Or it could evolve into something even more awesome. Optimism will gladden your soul, disappointment will arrive in the same state it would. My glass is always half full unless it's actually as empty as the Phantom Menace or suchlike.
henke on 21/5/2012 at 14:44
I've seen the first two seasons many times over, but waited with watching season 3 till all the episodes have been aired. I read this (
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/mf_harmon/all/1) article about Harmon in Wired not too long ago, and it paints a picture of a guy who cares a lot more about the work he's doing than the people he's doing it
with. A guy who demands perfection from himself and everyone else and is rarely satisfied with the end-result no matter how much praise the episodes get.
Quote:
“Oh, God! I wanna fucking blow my brains out.”
It's another day in the Community offices—one that will stretch until nearly dawn—and Harmon is listening to a demo of a piece of music for an upcoming episode. He dictated the melody to a composer and can't understand why this version sounds different. He gripes about it for a few minutes, lets it rest, and then starts griping again. “I often have inappropriate emotional reactions to things,” he says, “where other people would say, ‘Oh, it just needs some adjustment.'”
The others in the room barely look up; they're used to these outbursts. Harmon swears he's not difficult to work for, but being in a room with him for 15 hours a day certainly isn't easy. He's dismissive of some of the show's directors, has meltdowns in the editing bay, and drinks during the day, a fact he attributes to his unusual hours.
edit: also I'm betting the overlap of Dan Harmon and Skyrim fans here will be great enough to warrant the posting of this link: (
http://www.nerdist.com/2011/12/the-indoor-kids-22-church-of-skyrim-2-with-dan-harmon/) Dan Harmon on the Indoor Kids podcast blabbering about Skyrim for an hour It's a good one.
SubJeff on 22/5/2012 at 11:11
So I'm dying to know how you found the last episode Scots.
henke on 22/5/2012 at 11:20
I can let you know what I thought of the first two episodes if you want. Here goes: meeeeeeehhhhhh. I can barely even remember what happened in them. In the first one Jeff goes crazy and smashes a fireaxe through the table and in the second one.... some... stuuffff... happened?
Season 3 not off to a good start.
Koki on 22/5/2012 at 12:21
Quote Posted by fett
I blame Koki
I was never a huge fan of Community anyway, it seemed like a show that didn't know what it wanted to be, and what the characters should be.
Pyrian on 22/5/2012 at 17:33
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Anyway, the wrap party culminates with Harmon leading the entire cast and crew in singing "fuck you" to Chevy Chase ... in front of his wife and daughter.
That can and probably should get you fired just about anywhere.
Morte on 26/5/2012 at 18:37
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Kicking Harmon but keeping Community on might be perfect as a stab in the pancreas, but it's utterly retarded as a business move.
Doh. Thirteen more episodes and it gets them to the required number of episodes for syndication. Replacing Harmon with someone more pliable for those final ones makes sense if you don't give a fuck about the ratings.
Quote Posted by Koki
I was never a huge fan of Community anyway, it seemed like a show that didn't know what it wanted to be, and what the characters should be.
Community knows exactly what its characters are. And it knows what it is too. It doesn't have a fixed format, true, but the way it breaks from the standard sit-com format to comment on pop-culture and highlight the characters' state of mind is precisely why it's such a goddamned joy to watch.
SubJeff on 26/5/2012 at 19:15
Word. Another example of how clueless our resident troll is.
