I also think Pierce deserved more.
How do you mean?
More of a send off/acknowledgement that "He's dead, here's one brief monologue about him being dead, and now back to the episode".
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Lee - Jan 10, 2014 6:46:22 am PST #6989 of 8624
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
-t - Jan 10, 2014 7:10:57 am PST #6990 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm assuming there will be more in a later episode. But we shall see.
ETA: I"m a little disappointed that they killed Pierce off at all. Just having him banned from campus and not impacting the story really worked for me. But maybe they will take it somewhere good, who knows?
EpicTangent - Jan 10, 2014 7:45:14 am PST #6991 of 8624
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Pierce in the darkest timeline faked his own death, so this Pierce might not really be gone. It definitely felt anticlimactic in a way that makes me assume there will be more.
I agree with pretty much every word that Frank has already posted, so just pointing & saying "yes, that."
And I'm not usually the one who can't "take a joke" in the room, but I not only didn't find the coin thing funny, I found it actively disturbing - like to the point of debating myself whether it constituted sexual assault.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2014 8:24:02 am PST #6992 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I felt they were definitely portraying it in that way a little, Epic, especially in Troy's reaction. So it did make me a little uncomfortable how they played it for laughs, but it was also so absurd that it worked enough for me. Like a lot of concept episodes, I loved how much it committed to its premise; the scene where Annie discovers it's Duncan was great.
EpicTangent - Jan 10, 2014 9:21:33 am PST #6993 of 8624
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Okay, I'll admit to loving Troy (and Abed, of course) reactions. Abed just keeps piling on blankets and has a whole table full of cups to ply him with. But that's because Troy & Abed make everything better.
erikaj - Jan 10, 2014 11:48:32 am PST #6994 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!
I think it's funny, but I've probably watched more cheesy thrillers than anyone here.
EpicTangent - Jan 10, 2014 1:59:19 pm PST #6995 of 8624
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Glancing through Entertainment Weekly, there's a reference to a planned "homage to David Fincher psychological thrillers". Maybe this was that?
-t - Jan 10, 2014 2:05:58 pm PST #6996 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That makes sense. After I said "a little Se7en, a little Zodiac" I realized they were both Fincher. And I love me some David Fincher, so.
I spent so much of the time trying to nail down just what they were riffing on that it distracted me from actually enjoying the episode.
Yeah, I was similarly distracted for a few minutes but I just figured there are some references I'm not gonna get because sometimes I live under a rock.
-t - Jan 10, 2014 5:24:30 pm PST #6997 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Mindy Project is kinda hitting my allergies.
Scrappy - Jan 10, 2014 9:07:02 pm PST #6998 of 8624
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We are just catching up with last season's Community and it's SO BAD.