We Finally Found a Way to Make Paintball Cool Again
After last week's flashback-ridden debacle, my hopes were high for the season finale: as the last episode Megan Ganz would e'er write as part of the staff (now a writer onModern Family unit), and every bit a potential serial finale, I figured some closure was in society. Instead, the season goes out with two of its worst episodes always (as opposed to merely one with last week's): 'Avant-garde Introduction to Certitude' is everything I didn't want to run across in aCommunityepisode.
The whole conceit of the episode doesn't even make sense: the darkest timeline only existed in Abed'southward caput through season 3. What the fuck is Jeff doing imagining the darkest timeline? Writing it off equally a dream just doesn't piece of work, either: it's supposed to represent a major emotional journeying for Jeff, when he realizes that he can re-enter the world without fear, beingness a changed man who has learned to care almost the people around him. Instead, the dark timeline is just an excuse to bring back a gag I thought felt over-extended when it returned for the season 3 finale.
It sums upward the flavor every bit a whole, really: often, it's felt like season four is a lot of fan service to jokes from the commencement two seasons, at times undermining a lot of the show's foundation, both in terms of characters and multi-season arcs. 'Avant-garde Introduction to Finality' actually doesn't have much time to do this – information technology's completely obsessed with Jeff, and nobody but Abed has any existent presence outside of that – merely when it tin can, it does, focusing on a piece of the show likewise many fans have grown obsessed with. The darkest time line served its purpose last flavor… why does it have to be the focus of this finale?
'Remedial Anarchy Theory' is a memorable episode for a number of reasons – and this episode is an attempt to greenbacks in on all that good will, under the thinnest guise of having some emotional basis. I suppose there'due south a scrap of redemption when Jeff says cheers to his friends at the end, but a good Winger spoken language does not save the mess that precedes it. It merely all rings faux, like when Abed says "nosotros've institute a way to make paintball absurd again", a phrase I find completely and utterly ridiculous -especially from Abed, who'd recognize how tired a franchise gets by its third film, and wouldn't want to rehash old situations.
Only the absolute worst of it all: like last flavor's finale, it focuses on Jeff, and leaves everybody else floating in the wind. Did Troy mention air workout once all season? Has Britta tried to therapize herself? What's going on with Abed non-related to Jeff? Is Annie even a person anymore?… All of this – literally ALL OF IT – is thrown bated, so the focus can be on Jeff'south dream adventures, which dredges up bad characters from last season (the anti-Dean, for instance) and has them run around, shooting each other and causing special effects.
It all leads to Jeff'south graduation – a scene that lasts about a minute, and has all the emotional resolution of a fart in a sock. Jeff gives a prissy little farewell, merely after what nosotros've watched to go to that moment, his graduation feels like an empty gesture to the audition. Jeff says some overnice things, the Dean makes some gay innuendos, and Pierce comes in so they tin wrap upwardly his character in the easiest, least creative way possible (after no consideration, fence, or time spent with him making this HUGE character decision, he graduates. If he's not going to cooperate, you should've just killed him off here). At to the lowest degree Jeff went through some kind of emotional journey (regardless of how laughably bad information technology was) to get to the end – Pierce just graduates because that'due south what'due south convenient. Maybe this is a bad complaint, but for a graphic symbol who was in one case very, very important to Jeff's emotional growth (forcing him to deal with his daddy issues), it's a sad, distressing way to end his run.
At to the lowest degree we'll have the last shot of the episode to remember the Greendale 7 by. It's about the only fourth dimension they're together the whole episode, which takes a poor, desperately pandering episode ofCommunity,and makes it even worse past removing the feel of a community from it. Tonight'southward episode didn't experience like a group of people helping a friend enter the side by side phase of his life – nor did information technology feel like a culmination of the flavor's events, which was completely void of the character and narrative arcs included in the previous three seasons. 'Advanced Introduction to Finality' just sums up my feelings for the season as a whole:Community'south become agape to exist itself, and its reduction into the near contrived, contemporary, self-referential class completed with this episode.
Grade: D
Season 4: C
Other thoughts/observations:
– this episode was very, very shut to an F. Troy's conversation with himself and the final image of the group together is the only affair that saved it.
– I really don't want to see a fifth flavor ofCustomsto further diminish its own earlier accomplishments – but how can a series end with an episode similar this? At that place is Cypher satisfying about this season finale, I don't care how you cut it.
– what the fuck happened to the Chang/Dean Pelton story that was building for the entire season? Just totally dropped and forgotten, as is Abed'due south oral communication to Chang most him existence a office of the group (though he does save Jeff in the name of 'friendship', though nobody explains how the non-evil timeline version of him appeared).
– Jeff majored in Education; teaching in his hereafter?
– …. then, does Jeff accept the task or not? Abed's speech seems to propose he wouldn't, but there's never any indication either way.
– I'll have a Troyjan Equus caballus, concord the chocolate sauce.
– at least we can all pretend Abed'due south even so in his mini-dreamatorium, pretending to makeCommunityinto a broad, self-serving comedy for his own entertainment.
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