I made at least three Community converts this weekend, which is way better than I was expecting, since, tropical beach vacation. Gave the three seasons to my sister even though she insisted she'd download them, and two of her friends who live in the US said they're planning to buy. We made it through the first six eps-- with subtitles on. The sound system was very muddy. Music loud, words not, and somehow unclear. My sister said she thought she was missing 30% of the words. I kinda felt like I had too, reading them.
It was weird. Some jokes were spoilt, since the timing was jiggered, others made clear how much the delivery contributed, and, shit, i missed a metric crapload of asides and stuff.
But i think I won't watch with them on anyway. Visually they ruined the shots, unless it's a DVD player specific thing.
Now I need to work out a Better Than Ted pitch. First thing is to work out my favourite invention. On the spot, all I can remember is the orders to weaponise pumpkins.
Wikipedia ho!
Do the subtitles have a grey background? I usually love watching everything with subtitles on, but I can't stand it when they have a background color. It blocks too much of the screen or something. Too distracting.
They had black, actually, which I blame on the DVD player. and could take up to a 1/4 of the screen's height.
Okay, I just read this article about the rise of multiple camera sitcoms: [link] and it made me feel like a snobby hipster for disagreeing with everything they have to say, even including their singling out (ha ha pun) of New Girl as breaking the formula. I mean, the article is just 180 for me.
I want community¹ (no pun this time) and I want the single camera things, and I don't actually want them to do reshoots based on the studio audience. Good lord.
eta ¹: I'm not sure what the position on community is--it would seem it's a multi-camera artefact, but the placement in the article confuses me.
Parks and Rec is back, hooray!
I don't really have anything to say about tonight's episode, but it was delightful.
I don't know if anyone is interested in the Troy and Abed mugs, but they're back on sale in the NBC Universal store. They were unavailable for a fairly long while after I got mine.
Right. I need to see if Parks & Rec is on Netflix Instant.
Somehow I don't think of P&R as an ita ! show.
On a different topic, which do you think are better--the 3 Community Halloween eps, or the 3 Christmas eps?
I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.
I think the Halloween eps are funnier. I think the Xmas eps are good but I haven't found them funny.
I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.
Yeah, I can't argue with that.
Parks and Rec is single-camera, so it stands a chance! I don't think it has the joke density of Arrested Development or Better Off Ted. What it mostly has going for it is that the comedy and the plots are strongly rooted in character. It did take a while to find its feet that first season iirc, but then it just kept building - this last season was great. In a totally different way from how this last season of. Community was great, but they kind if complemented each other well, somehow. I'm a little sad they aren't on back-to-back anymore.
