I'm a nerd. I'm a husband and father. I'm an economist. I fucking love using ellipses far more than is healthy, and I really, really love the whole Jeff/Annie thing on Community. I write bad fan fiction on occasion, and I love interacting with people on here...seriously. Ask me anything you like. I crave your attention, almost to the degree that you may wonder if I've ever had any actual human interaction.
Man, I just realized how Jeff and Annie totally seemed like a couple in this episode. They instantly group up, they do all of their weird chair maneuvers together and really commit to the bit. Plus the binoculars scene where they lean in close to each other was pretty cute.
Idk, I’ve seen people complain about how shows get worse when the will they/won’t they couples get together, but if it would just be subtle stuff like this then I’m all over that.
How do you like Annie so far this season? She's definitely grown up now and I reckon that could be a good thing for Jeff/Annie developments.
Well, first and foremost, let's talk about Annie for Annie, not Annie for Jeff/Annie.
I'm digging her, for the most part. I DO miss the way she dressed, say..circa season 3. I thought she looked fantastic and peppy and fun. That said, I also like how she dresses now. I think she looks more adult, and professional, chic, and still very, very attractive. I like how she's tough, and take charge, and still has her convictions, and doesn't seem to have let things get her down too much, as was the impression I got in Re-Pilot.
Now...there's things I also don't like. The obvious thing? Her big 'spiking the punch' secret from last episode. Drugging others isn't cool. Now...I'm going to kinda sound like I'm forgiving that, but bear with me while I go all long-winded and such, as is my predilection.
Annie dosed her friends with a pharmaceutical amphetamine...I'm guessing Adderall, due to the fact that 1) she's had known problems with it in the past, and 2) I really don't know any others. I'm sure there's loads, but I'm lazy and so I'm just going to work off of what I'm familiar with.
Now, if we assume it's Adderall, I'm VERY familiar with it. I take it. Daily. Actually, twice daily. I have wicked ADD, and Adderall's the only thing that's helped me get a leg up on it. Trust me...I've tried lots of other medications. The side effects from Adderall suck. Now...5 mg? Nothing. I take 20 ER (extended release) in the morning, and 10 non-ER at night before my evening classes. My wife has also been prescribed said amphetamine, and as hard as we tried to find a way to avoid it...our 9 year old takes it too. (We told the doc that pills were a last resort, but no amount of chastising talks, physical exercise, combinations of punishments and rewards, etc could seem to get him to calm down and focus in class, and we can't sit there in class with him every day glaring whenever he gets out of line.)
I also, to my shame, have let some family members and friends who've suspected that they have ADD try my pills (only three separate people, and one time each.) No one who tried them without a diagnosis ever asked to again, since to a one, they all said it made them feel agitated and aggressive, which is the exact opposite effect it has on me.
So...my point? When Annie justified he doings by saying it was only 5 mg, I nodded and said "Oh, yeah...5 mg is nothing." When Abed complained he was up for three days, and that his brain chemistry had been altered, I scoffed, because that was ridiculous. Adderall doesn't stay in your system long term. It's in and out. At least, that's what doctors have told me. I confess, I've never looked up that particular property.
Now...when I took a step back, and realized that just like I don't know everything about it, they may not have necessarily done their research on the show either. 1) Maybe it wasn't Adderall at all, but a different amphetamine. 2) Maybe 5 mg of whatever it was is a bigger deal than 5 mg of Adderall, or maybe they didn't realize that 5 mg of Adderall is nothing (THAT, I'm pretty confident on. When my son got his prescription at first, the doc said "So, do you think we should start at 10 mg?" My response: "What about starting at 5?" The doc: "It's unlikely to have any therapeutic level effects at his height and weight.") 3) Maybe Adderall affects people with Abed's..."condition" differently, much like it affects those of us with diagnosed ADD differently from people who just daydream from time to time.
I could go on and on, but the real big picture is that what didn't seem like a big deal to me due to my real life experiences was totally meant to be major in the Community-verse. But even more importantly...drugging anyone, let alone your friends, without their permission is freaking uncool. Plus, Annie's had Adderall problems in the past. No matter what amphetamine it is, this is a danger zone for her. I thought this revelation seemed out of character for her (didn't she once say that her experience with addiction and rehab made it so she didn't even like OTC painkillers? Or is that just headcanon from reading too much fic?) as well as super shady.
So...now onto Jeff and Annie? I think it's obvious that they're being lined up as a romantic possibility, even more than ever before, and I love how they're playing off of each other. Annie's new, greater maturity means she's more able to stand toe to toe with Jeff, and it makes for a much more fun potential relationship. I don't really want something where "he's the big strong manly man," and she's the "meek and devoted woman," or she's the "intelligent and crafty woman," and he's the "big dumb schlub who was lucky enough to get her."
There's lots of sitcoms with those sorts of pairings (more the latter than the former, tbh,) and I'd rather see two people who are more equal partners.
The Ass Crack bandit song has a lyric " Why you supose only the bandit knows ? " and i think thath i that moment Jeff and Annie are shown up. Could this mean something ? ( could this be that Jeff and Annie are secretly together ? )
First and foremost, if you want what I think…I’d say no.
That’s it. Just no. It doesn’t mean anything, and Jeff and Annie aren’t secretly together, as much as I partially love the idea.
Let’s be honest…Annie’s not the type to have a Facebook boyfriend if she’s got a real (albeit secret) one. I think that one little (creepy-ass) secret that was revealed last episode firmly puts Jeff and Annie in the camp of ‘not together, but still possible someday.’
Also, that Ass-Crack Bandit song…some lyrics have great meaning behind them. Some just fit the rhyming scheme well, and don’t sound out of place. Look at any song that puts any sort of nonsense lyrics in. Hell, even The Beatles did it with Hey Jude. Sometimes it just sounds good.
I think that particular lyric (the ACB one) when read into from that direction, points in a dangerous way. It makes you start thinking that there’s a solution to the mystery. Let me put myself out there and say that I don’t think Jeff knows who the Bandit is, nor does Annie, nor Shirley, Britta, or Duncan. It certainly isn’t any single one of them, but could have been all of them working separately, or could be none of them. I would surmise that the writers don’t know who the ACB is, and even Dan Harmon doesn’t know. There isn’t supposed to be a resolution to the case. I doubt it’ll be revisited again (seeing as this was the second time we’d heard of the ACB, I count this as revisit #1,) and I don’t really think it needs to be. It was a plot device to set up for Shirley’s Wham Line reveal at the end, and to put Jeff and Annie together in a cute caper.
As always, I could be wrong, but I’ll wait to be proven incorrect in this case.
We have a very stron possibility for a renewal ! 24 episodes Britta and Duncan together ? JeffxAnnie wedding ? I have like thousand ideas ( while still being realistic ) what's your opinion ? p.s 100 episode can be REAL !!!!!
My opinion?
We'll see it when we see it. Until we see a renewal, I'm not counting on one. Until we see Jeff and Annie together, I'm going to enjoy what we've got, wish for more, and deal with what we don't get. Britta and Duncan...I'm ambivalent about. It could be funny, or it could suck. It's all in how it's handled.
We don't have context. There's SO many different ways to explain it, and almost none of them are a big deal.
Just for example...maybe Annie's a bit embarrassed. Here's a sample exchange I just made up.
:"Ugh, what's up with you and Professor Winger, anyway? Get a room already, you two.":"What? No. He's my...uncle."
Or another.
:"So, that Professor Winger is pretty hot, huh? I wonder if he dates students...":"Uhhh, he's my uncle...so, it's kinda weird to talk about that.":"Oh, hmm, kinda makes him off-limits if he's your uncle."
Yes...those are contrived, and don't sound like how people really talk, but the underlying concepts are solid. Pretty much the worst way that secret could be taken was dodged. Annie didn't say he's 'like an uncle,' and she says it around other female students...not males. This is not a big deal for J/A shippers.
If you want to feel bad for any of your fellow Community shippers, feel bad for the Trobed and/or Ab/A folks. We knew Trobed was being sunk this episode, but I don't know that anyone saw the 'Abed is a giant creeper' thing coming. I mean, the Abed/Annie ship was already clinging to next to nothing, and really was nails in the coffin.
So, J/A is pretty much in the same place (not exactly, but close.) If you have the feels to spare, give them to the people whose ships were sunk last night.
Is this a thing? This is the second one in a row about this.
Honestly, the only reason I think Duncan and Britta could be fun to watch is because 1)Britta would totally wear the pants in the relationship, and neither she, nor anyone she knew, friend or casual acquaintance, would ever even try to refute that, not even 2) Duncan is a sad, lonely, pathetic man to the point that he knows the only way he has a snowball's chance in hell is if her inhibitions are lowered.
I mean, the whole "get me when Britta's drunk" thing was creepy, but I'll be honest...I was a frat boy, and while I never would have promoted such behavior (NO fraternity in the world, especially one on a campus like mine, is going to condone that sort of thought. I mean...to give an example of a SOMEWHAT similar case...when I was a pledge, we had to wear our pledge pins. It's all a part of the whole silly thing. Pretty much all fraternities and sororities do it. I don't know about other campuses, but on mine, it was a thing for sorority girls to try to steal guy's pledge pins. If successful, we had to bring them flowers, and sing to them in front of as much of their house as they assembled in order to get our pin back. Now...they could try to be sneaky, and act into you, and try to deftly remove it whilst acting like they think you're all manly and they like your chest...or, they could be aggressive, and see if they can get a couple of other girls to hold your arms, and just take it.
Now, it also worked the other way...that is, guys could try to steal girls' pins as well. But, there's a little...something creepier about a dude trying to take something from a girl's chest, whether sneaky or aggressive. Now, we were told, under no uncertain terms, SEVERAL times, "The only way you steal a girl's pin is if it's on her shirt, and her shirt is in a pile on your floor." The intimation there is, you've just gotten lucky, take it one step further and steal her pin, but you'd better not do it in a way that's going to make us look like a bunch of creepers who grab at girl's chests. First of all, we didn't need any lawsuits. Secondly...we LIKED girls, and we didn't want a reputation of "Oh, if you go to parties there, you get groped." On the other hand, I'd both heard girls say things like "I can't wait until he gets drunk enough for me to jump him" or "I'm just waiting for you to get drunker so I can have my way with you." and had people tell me that girls were saying things like that about me. "Hey dude, heads up, girl y said she's hoping you get hammered tonight." etc.)
Now...back on topic, after a two-paragraph parenthetical...Duncan is already a lush, and a very lonely man, as per his own S2 words. If it were Jeff saying that sort of thing, it'd be even creepier, because it could be seriously predatory coming from someone who can demonstrably pick up women. From Duncan, it's creepy, but it's also sad...he knows he has pretty much no chance with Britta. If they ever got together, he would totally be her bitch.
Just imagine what a coclusion to the season 5 we could gt Jeff and Annie together. Abbed turning normal and Britta being pregnatn with Duncans baby :D
I'm going to go ahead and say that while there may be movement in the positive direction with Jeff and Annie, the last one is the only one that stands a chance (and even then...a vanishingly small one,) and the only because it's totally unexpected.
Abed isn't ever going to be normal, and this season so far, hes been even less sympathetic than ever, and even verging on villainous.
Jeff and Annie, from what I've taken from Harmon's interviews, MAY end up together, and probably WILL hook up this season (that part is a dart toss on my part, and not a little bit of wishful thinking, tbh) but if they end up together, it won't be until the series end. If the show isn't renewed for another season, we'll have to hope that we get something like a "here's what happened to everyone" on his blog.
Alternate ending fannfiction just showded up on fannfiction net so i just read it and i like it what do you think ?
Unfortunately, I haven't really had time to read (or for that matter, write, if I may allow the J/A fic reading fandom to breathe a collective relieved sigh) anything lately. Alternate ending to what? Intergluteal Numismatics? Honestly, that's the one time I've written a post-ep reaction fic, and I did it because my feeling about where the pairing would need to go from there were pretty strong. After that...they can't just say "Ok, let's be together," they're in shock and mourning, and any decisions they make will be influenced and colored by that.
I'll have to give recent stuff a read soon.
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