People are weird. Dan said a bunch of things, but never that he was the sole writer who made Community awesome, quite the opposite as I recall. Megan didn't leave until this season was done filming, right? So are you already worried about season 5?

The season 4 preview on iTunes looks good - I am excited! I think I will be able to watch Community at a Starbucks or somewhere, on my phone, before I have to report for work.

Megan didn't leave until this season was done filming, right? So are you already worried about season 5?

That's why it doesn't really make sense. But why is she announcing she's leaving? Why is that a thing, with an announcement? I think that's the core of the unease.

People are equating Harmon to Joss, and therefore any show he was on was only good because of him, and will suck without his input.

My opinion of Joss aside, don't you need more of a track record to make that call?

I guess all I feel I know about Dan is that he's a cranky manboy who doesn't know how to act in public. Oh, and he showran a brilliant show. But it perhaps wouldn't have been as brilliant without many of the pieces that make that hole, or, in a 180, it would have--we just don't know the key pieces, and what they were replaced with. I don't know why people are acting like they're doing more than doomsaying and guessing.

As always, I can't get anyone to show their working, though. That seems to be rude, to try and work out why people have strongly held opinions. Just knowing they're strongly held should be enough. Apparently.

But why is she announcing she's leaving? Why is that a thing, with an announcement?

I have the sense that, as a fan, she didn't want to go, she wanted to work on Community forever and ever, but as a writer with a career switching shows made sense, and she felt the need to explain that personally. So, announcement.

I was blissfully unaware of the doomsaying. Which is how I like to be, so I won't go looking for it, but I am really quite optimistic about the coming season, I think we have some good stuff coming our way.

I have the sense that, as a fan, she didn't want to go, she wanted to work on Community forever and ever, but as a writer with a career switching shows made sense, and she felt the need to explain that personally. So, announcement.

That is how I saw it too.

But I kinda figured everyone's leaving the show, but I guess if you're the first one to announce it, you get the benefit of the press. If you just go jobhunting when it's officially wrapped, no one cares.

IO9 just asks the question (this is where they cave and officially adopt Community as under their scope, since it's the title of their 'week in genre TV' article), and there are some smug-assed Cassandras up in that shit.

Everyone leaving is not yet official, and she did get a new job that meant she was going. Shrug.

That there are Cassandras does not surprise me. I am finding them easier to avoid than I would have guessed, actually. Io9 is one of those places I really only go when linked.

Editorially, IO9 is more neutral than, say, random tumblrs. There was a wake for Dan Harmon that stopped just shy of canonising him, and I just screwed my eyes shut until they all got distracted by shipping Sterek or something.

I am assuming, however, that everyone's job hunting. She's just most likely to get a job anyone gives a fuck about, and likely to get it first, since she's the second creative name, even though people deny Harmon didn't shit it all unaltered from his rectal sphincter.

Yeah, I don't wander tumblr unescorted. There be dragons.

I will admit, I don't know any of the other writers' names off the top of my head. I should put a little effort into that, I'll want to have some idea what they end up doing next, probably.

That reminds me, Jim Rash wrote an episode for this season! I am trying not to have unreasonably high expectations for that one, that is certainly my inclination.

I just learned that Ken Jeong is a licensed physician.

The things you learn on Tumblr.

See, Polter! You clearly don't hang out a lot on Tumblr, because that's earlier in the syllabus than "Rash has an Oscar". What with it happening first, and stuff.

Nah, Tumblr is mostly worth it. I tend to search it before the internet at large for good pictures nowadays. Not hi-res, but well curated.

Anyway--back to Community--this is pretty much all good times: [link]