RIP Community Part 1

You might be asking yourself why is Community dead when it just got renewed (for 13 measly episodes) next season.

You therefore might be asking yourself why this is Part 1 of a death that shouldn't exist for said reasons.

Hell, the show was renewed right!?

To answer all of your questions:

DAN HARMON WAS FIRED.

Let me explain why this is bad...and why INDEED we are in the darkest timeline.

Community was a show about characters that we could all relate to. It was an insanely self-aware show that was all about love, respect, fun, happiness, family, geekiness, paint ball, selfishness, hate, zombies, teamwork, schoolwork, pop culture, and blah, blah, blah, fucking blah...except - COOL, COOL, COOL.

The show was about everything. It was fun, funny, sarcastic, and interesting above all things. Sure it was uber-geeky but, God was it amazingly entertaining. This was the show to love, people. 

FOR EXAMPLE:

The following segment of an episode delved solely into the idea that there is a multi-verse (meaning that there are other worlds that these - I just scored ten points for a Dark Tower reference - FYI) where every decision we make can create a new world.

See? This show is GENIUS.

Sure, the following segment has subtitles, but WATCH IT!

The notion that was put forth in this episode (that was followed through with many episodes hence forth) was that there was a dark timeline, or as Abed puts it, THE DARKEST TIMELINE.

For a long time, I've felt that we have been living in the best timeline. Sure, Community has been on the ropes against Clubber Lang a few times, but we've always fought our way back.

In the last year, NBC stupidly put the show on a hiatus. Even though the show had episodes finished and committed (contractually), for some ridiculous reason (Hollywood makes tons of dumbass decisions - at one point in time, the WB had Tim Burton directing a Superman movie staring Nicolas Cage...need I say more? - NO, I really don't have to) they chose to wait to air them.

Most fans figured this was just a small (pussy ass) step towards cancellation. But then the show came back. VICTORY!!!  Community was then henceforth renewed for another season (albeit only 13 episodes - but shit, we'll take what we can get).

We rejoiced!

Yet now? Everything means nothing.

Dan Harmon has been fired from the show...HIS show.

So while I believe there is a world out there where Community thrives, there is also a world where Community was cancelled. The greatness died.



I would take that.



It's absolutely preferable to what we are now faced with.

A world of Community WITHOUT it's creator. It's a slap in the face. It's horror incarnate.

Dan Harmon WAS Community.

I have small hopes that the show could continue at least as well as it's been doing and survive a year or two...but these hopes are grim.

The reality is that NBC is trying to be diplomatic. They are trying to avoid protest and aggravation. This is their way of slowly killing Community.

I BLAME YOU WHO DID NOT WATCH!

Someday you'll reap the whirlwind.