"I lived in New York."

[ozmissage]

I’ve been mulling what my fannish life will look like in a post-Lost world. This mulling usually leads to wailing and eating too much chocolate. But no more. I know where I’m going after I find out what the freaking island is, after I get my coffee date, after I see Charlie Pace one more time (that’s going to happen, right?), after everybody leaves their keys on the table…wait, wrong show, whatever after it ends you can find me at Greendale College.

I have seen the promise land my friends and it looks like Joel McHale. Join me under the cut for a mature discussion about how Community is the greatest show in the history of the world and how if you’re not watching it I feel bad for you because there is a hole in your fannish heart and you don’t even know about it. But mostly for spoilers for tonight’s ep.

* JEFF WINGER PLAYED POOL IN SHORTS. THEN UNDERWEAR. THEN NAKED. WITH ANOTHER GUY. THEN HE GOT KISSED BY OTHER GUY. ALL WHILE THAT SONG FROM THAT MOVIE ABOUT POOL PLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND. AND ANNIE CHECKED HIM OUT. HOLY CRAP.

*And Abed pretended to be Don Draper to pick up Annie who is also Pete’s wife. I….OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW.

* I wish I was brown Joey.

* I can’t wait to see Shirley’s face when Abed and Troy eventually start dating. They will woo her with their adorable adorableness and epic BFF-ness and she’ll forget all about bringing them to Jesus.  And it will be awesome.

* Bert and Ernie tag. Sweet god. Troy was supposed to be at his cousin’s funeral. That shouldn’t be funny and yet it totally is.

* “Baggel.” Oh Britta, never change. You are like a perfect, amazing person and I love you to pieces.

*Also, Pierce!

*And Senor Chang.

*AND EVERYTHING. I CAN’T BE COHERANT ABOUT THIS AND I CAN’T STOP CAPSLOCKING. BEST. SHOW. EVER.

Also there was an Office baby. I appreciate The Office's commitment to realism, but the thing is if you tell people the truth about what it’s like to have a baby no one is ever going to do it. This episode kind of scarred me for life. Spoilers under the cut. 

*The first half hour was adorable and sweet and involved frazzled Jim and a freaking out, slightly crazy Pam and Kevin being awesome and Ryan reading poetry while wearing a scarf. In short: it was kind of perfect.

Then part two happened and there was a wailing baby and lots of talking about Pam’s breasts and lactating and she fed the wrong baby and they were clearly terrified, as was I. And Dwight destroyed their house…ugh. See this is the part you usually don’t see on television, the part where babies are hard. They cry and you never know what they want and this is your life for the next eighteen years Jim and Pam. Only soon there will be a screaming toddler and then a whiny eight-year old throwing temper tantrums in the supermarket and then a teenager being ridiculous because that’s usually their default setting and they’ll still be in Scranton. Selling copiers. And now I’m depressed.

They’ll be okay I guess. I hope. I think I’m projecting because infants scare me and I only like children when I know I can send them home to someone else and the idea of actually having one of my own makes me feel like hyperventilating a little bit.

But Ryan wore a scarf. And glasses. And read poetry. I’m going to focus on that part.

Finally, I’ve realized two things:

1) Dean and Scully are going to end up going head to head. In other words, shit just got real. This is personal now. I swear if he beats Scully I will flounce off the freaking internet. I will not live in a world that chooses Dean Winchester over Dana Scully. Hell, if there was no Dana Scully there wouldn’t be a Dean Winchester.

2) It’s very likely that Juliet Burke and Loralei Gilmore will have to face off. I can not vote in that race. It’s like the universe is conspiring against me. I won’t choose. You can’t make me.

Why am I taking this so seriously? I’m going to have an ulcer before this all over with.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I saw Community tonight and it was perfect, I might just have to keep watching it on purpose :) Joe McHale playing pool naked is definitely a plus and omg I did not even know Annie=Pete's wife but Don Draper was amazing ;)

Did you realize the guy who plays Don Draper is the voice behind the xfinity!comcast commercials? And part of me thinks this is so amazing because it's Don and it's re-branding. It's all real, I tell you, real :)

If I have to choose between Juliet and Rick Castle, you have to choose between Juliet and Lorelai. All's fair in love and war ;)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Yes! You have to jump on the Community train. It's like the happiest show on earth.

Did you realize the guy who plays Don Draper is the voice behind the xfinity!comcast commercials?

I did not, but that's amazing. :D

But...but I can't! *wails*

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

Community was lots of fun. Baggels! I also loved Britta's Facts of Life comment.

I thought Dwight's efforts were good intentioned. I thought it would have been funnier if he had been finished before Pam and Jim got home and they didn't even notice.

I voted in the first round of March Madness, but there is no way I can keep up. Good luck with your favourites. Go Scully and Juliet!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I forgot all about the Facts of Life comment! That's was awesome. This episode just had way too many quotable lines. :D

If Dwight had been finished when they got home I think I would have found it really sweet, but the idea that now they have to deal with both a newborn and Dwight's construction crew makes me cranky.

I'm already devising an elaborate Scully campaign. I just can't deal with the idea that she might lose to a guy who is on a show that would not exist without the X-Files. It's just not fair.

[missy-useless.livejournal.com]

I think you just convinced me to give Community a try. I need more time! Can somebody please give me more time?

As for the march madness ... I have one very, very big problem. I obviously don't want Dean to win again. But I don't really want to vote against him, either, because I like him and there is basically no (okay, a few, but not many) character in the scifi (and then teen) section that I know and/or like. This sucks. I guess I won't vote at all - and then in the end I'll throw a fit because it's Dean again and I didn't do anything to stop him. ;)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's amazing.

I need more time! Can somebody please give me more time?

Heh. I feel like I should quote Daniel now.

See I feel kind of bad about voting against him because I do like him, I just don't think he's the be all, end all of fictional characters. The idea that he would go up against a character like Dana Scully or Buffy Summers and win is crazy to me. Those are characters that have left a lasting mark on the television landscape from shows that clearly influenced SPN...I mean without them, he wouldn't exist.

At the end of the day SPN is a fun show (most of the time), but it's not something that changed the way I watched television, something that made me sit up and go OMG where have you been all my life. I think that's why I'm so set against Dean winning again. It's not so much him, but what he represents.

I feel you on the teen category though. I don't know who half of those characters are and I'm only mildly invested in the other half. ;)

[missy-useless.livejournal.com]

Heh. I feel like I should quote Daniel now.

Lol!

At the end of the day SPN is a fun show (most of the time), but it's not something that changed the way I watched television, something that made me sit up and go OMG where have you been all my life.

I completely understand that and agree with you. The only problem is: none of the shows that are listed in the scifi section changed my life. BSG is by far my favorite show on the list, but I am no Kara fan (I might end up voting for her anyway, because she had her great moments and I like BSG). I think I'd be okay with voting for Buffy. And maybe Dana Scully, though I have absolutely no idea who that is, just because you mention her a lot. ;) I don't know, I don't know. I'm against the SPN (and Dean) hype because yes, it's fun but definitely not the best - not that I can judge that, I haven't seen anything but S1 - but ... meh. Let's hope Juliet wins. :p

The only thing I'm sure of in the teen category is that I will vote for Damon (Ian! Squeee!) and against Sue Sylvester. The rest? No idea. *shrugs*

Juliet FTW

[greedyslayer.livejournal.com]

LOL, well, I'll happily vote in Juliet's favor, taking advantage of how I have no idea who Loralei is.

Re: Juliet FTW

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Loralei Gimore owns me. She always has. Gilmore Girls and I go way back.

But Juliet!

It's just not fair. :(

Lost Forever

[greedyslayer.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping that post-Lost, there'll be even more Lost fic and that the fandom won't just roll over and die. Especially a lot of AU fic, 'cause with the canon done, AU's have more potential of choosing where to twist up canon and spin off from it.

Re: Lost Forever

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I think it'll always be here and some form and I'm never not going to love the show but I imagine I'll have a different primary fandom as much as it pains me to admit it. :(

[angela-weber.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH COMMUNITY! JUST FINISHED WATCHING. HOW do I not have a Community icon?? I know I say this every week, but this time I am really going to hunt down a Bert and Ernie icon and upload it because this show is so good, I can't get over it. ;)

Abed pretended to be Don Draper to pick up Annie who is also Pete’s wife.

I KNOW! RIGHT THERE IS ABOUT WHERE I DIED. And then I died again at the naked pool. lolol I am in love with this show. :D

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

You need one! Sometimes I just stare at my Abed and Troy icon because it makes me happy. And I'm weird. ;)

NAKED POOL. Things like that just don't happen on this show. Did you see that NBC just renewed it for a second season? I'm so proud of them right now.

[cantbesilent.livejournal.com]

Ughhhh, whyyyyyyy is Lost ending? I've never seen Community, but there are many other shows I love (CHUCK being a big one), but it's not the saaaaaaame. ITS JUST NOT THE SAME. Those shows just don't lend themselves as well to as much insane internet fangirling and rambling. When Friends ended I felt this huge sense of personal loss, but it was all about the show and the characters. Lost ending feels like me loosing a whole group of people. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?!?!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

*Hugs*

I know. I'm so not prepared for this. There's just nothing else like Lost on television. I can't imagine any other show consuming my life so thoroughly. I'm just going to hang out here in denial land and pretend it's not going anywhere. ;)

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

AMAZING episode. Pure amazing-ness. Community always manages to pretty much make me laugh from end to end, but this was seriously epic. And the tag!!!!! (Which I think deserves multiple exclamation marks.) Seriously lost my mind.

It's funny, because you're so on-point with The Office stuff, but I actually had the opposite reaction, as in "I cannot wait." Kinda ridiculous, but there you have it. ;P And I'm glad the show wasn't all rainbows and ponies about having a newborn, since it's clearly not.

And Ryan's terrible poetry! That was like, half the guys I knew in university. Fantastic.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

That tag!!! OMG, it was perfect and totally deserves multiple exclamation points.

I'm dying for this show to be on DVD. I imagine I'll just watch it over and over until my DVD player dies from exhaustion.

It's funny, because you're so on-point with The Office stuff, but I actually had the opposite reaction, as in "I cannot wait."

I think that just proves how awesome and mature you are. I'm still afraid babies will break when I hold them. It just seems so grown up and scary to me, but I like how the show presented it. It felt very real and I've always loved that aspect of The Office.

Poor Ryan. He's so ridiculous right now. And yet I still love him. ;)