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Originally Posted by troutman
I feel like many missed the joke/concept. I would not expect the next episode to have the same flavour at all. I think history will judge this episode kindly. Watch it again in a few months.
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That might be the case but it's not our job to understand the joke. It's the showrunners job to make sure the joke is told in a way that everyone gets it.
Considering that Community is known for being incredible at delivering complex, meta, multi-episode jokes and nailing them, last night was quite a misstep. At least to me.
I have faith that it could get better but one thing to remember is that the Community "concept" episodes walk a really fine line between brilliance (paintball, mafia movie) and terrible (imo, last nights episode, claymation, annie in the dreamatorium). Also the concept episodes need to be spaced out throughout the season. Another huge fear of mine is that the new showrunners are going to overdue the parodies to try and stay true to Harmon which will get stale fast. 4 or 5 "special" episodes in a 22 episode season is a good balance.