I feel I should comment.
I don't think I've ever been part of a fandom before with such a polarizing finale. I have fans of all stripes on my f-list and Twitter list, but it mostly divided like this:
1) Britta lovers: FAILFAILFAIL
2) Jeff/Annie shippers: OMGSQUEEEEEE!
3) Multi-shippers/non-shippers: What? But didn't Troy rock? Troy/Giant Cookie OTP!
So yeah, I'm in camp #3, and I'm still unsure what to think. (Other than that I may be developing a major celeb crush on Donald Glover lately.)
I WANT to be the one of the people who says: "Dan Harmon is messing with us, and he did all of that just to have a cliched season finale with multiple romantic cliffhangers." He did say he was pleased with the reaction (which was very angry as much as squeeful from the vocal fans)... But YET, I can't be completely confident that it's all on purpose. I love Britta, and I totally get all the wave of upset from camp #1.
MY PLEA TO ALL OF YOU: NO SHIPPER WARS, PLEASE. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT.
I'm just glad
community_tv is starting SUMMER SCHOOL next week. I have hope that the activities will take everyone's mind off of the way things ended and help us look forward to the season to come.
I don't think I've ever been part of a fandom before with such a polarizing finale. I have fans of all stripes on my f-list and Twitter list, but it mostly divided like this:
1) Britta lovers: FAILFAILFAIL
2) Jeff/Annie shippers: OMGSQUEEEEEE!
3) Multi-shippers/non-shippers: What? But didn't Troy rock? Troy/Giant Cookie OTP!
So yeah, I'm in camp #3, and I'm still unsure what to think. (Other than that I may be developing a major celeb crush on Donald Glover lately.)
I WANT to be the one of the people who says: "Dan Harmon is messing with us, and he did all of that just to have a cliched season finale with multiple romantic cliffhangers." He did say he was pleased with the reaction (which was very angry as much as squeeful from the vocal fans)... But YET, I can't be completely confident that it's all on purpose. I love Britta, and I totally get all the wave of upset from camp #1.
MY PLEA TO ALL OF YOU: NO SHIPPER WARS, PLEASE. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT.
I'm just glad
community_tv is starting SUMMER SCHOOL next week. I have hope that the activities will take everyone's mind off of the way things ended and help us look forward to the season to come.
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I LOVED the Jeff/Annie stuff (duh!), but I didn't like the Britta/Slater stuff, and I didn't like where they got to that point with Jeff/Annie. They could have a gazillion of Jeff stories that led them to that moment in the end (Annie's story didn't have to change at all) without sacrificing Britta. *sigh*
I think that Comm101's activities will help, and we're gonna start working on some stuff at
Things have been okay, except that one post, and really people needed to vent. And we certainly haven't lost members over the finale, quite the opposite. Yay for summer!
What I don't understand is that some people are confused about why Jeff gave that confession to Annie. A very similar thing happened in Basic Genealogy after Jeff did it in the closet with Katherine McPhee. While I don't necessarily ship Jeff/Annie, I hardly think it is out of left field. At least it is easier to pretend that I am Annie than to pretend that I am Britta and isn't that just a little more than pathetic. (Minus the pill addiction of course.)
But then I come back to the idea that Harmon WANTED it to be cliched and love triangle/trapezoidal on purpose, and I go back to frowny pondering...
i did kind of get all gleeful over the kiss at the end, though, i'll be honest. there was a lot to be happy over. there were a few things that were just insane. troy and the giant cookie was hilarious.
and i think the summer fics are going to be great. =D
And Chang and Duncan were antagonistic back in Duncan's last appearance (105) but that's AGES ago.
I still laughed a ton, especially anything involving Troy. :)
I can't wait for the summer fics! Yay!
I am camp #3, then #1, but #2 doesn't affect me one way or the other. The two are certainly cute together, though. :)
This. The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether this episode is meant to be a two-parter, and we only got one and a half acts. I could forgive a lot based on how 201 goes.
And yes, there's been a lot of 1) and 2) upset, but many Jeff/Annie people are feeling attacked by it, and many Britta people (whether they give a flip about Jeff/Britta or not) are mad that J/A people find anything to like/aren't more mad. But not all! Several people who've commented to this entry are firm J/A people who also are disappointed with the Britta storyline. I can just see this issue bubbling into more if people start donning the tinhats. :)
You are camp #3. A person who multi-ships. #3's were often partially #1 or 2 as well. They're mostly what is tempering the rage blackouts in camp #1. ;)
Thanks! I've been fortunate to attract some really great fans, too. ♥
Last week's episode felt much more like a final to me, really.
Sad thing about fandom - doesn't matter what show it is eventually a shipper war breaks out. :(
But yay for Troy/Giant cookie! :)
All the forced feeling of the ep is why I keep drifting into "was this on purpose?" territory. I'll be making a :( if 201 doesn't end up twisting everything that happened in 125.
I know we'll probably see some shipper warring, but if we can keep it to Chuck, Spider-Man or Superman movieverse levels (aka hardly anything) instead of Smallville levels (aka nuclear war), then I'll be fine.
But yeah, it was still a good episode. No hate from me.
I'm hopeful that Dan will do quite a lot interviews where we can gauge how he wrote it. It's very clear he WANTED to stir up the shippers and he succeeded to a degree.
But my sister and I were talking about how he finally got the fans on Britta's side and then went a little OOC. Not completely, because I think this Slater business is another instance of her fragile ego needing validation. It's really the lack of resolution that's making everyone on edge!
I'm excited for Comm101's Summer classes!
DEFINITELY. If we get a chance to interview Dan at any point, I'd love a look into his process. For this episode as well as everything!
Yes, the lack of resolution is a killer. I was saying above that in some ways the ep felt like acts one and half of two. No act three, no heartwarming resolution. I hope 201 gives us that!
I am too! Yay for the start of that in a few days. :D
Overall, I enjoyed the episode a lot, and I was probably way more into the Duncan-Chang rivalry than anything.
Chang vs. Duncan was hilarious. I hope they can get John back more to continue that in S2. :)