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Amazing episode that wraps up Season 2 perfectly

[Matth3050 · 10/10 · 19 May 2013]

After an amazing Season 1 finale with Modern Warfare, the first paintball episode, doing another one in Season 2 had to meet some extremely high standards to begin with. However, this two-part episode that starts off with a western feel to it, ends on a high note with what Abed describes as a Star Wars paintball. This episode managed to do make every character grow in this finale, giving a real sense of the show moving forward and adding much more depth to the dimension of these characters. I loved Abed quoting Han Solo throughout. I always think it's a shame that Shirley's bad-ass side isn't shown more on the show because I adore her when she acts like that. In this episode, she is freaking bad ASS. The music was so fitting, when she says something along the lines "Hell, someone's gotta win this." Having her have such an important role in the unfolding of an episode's plot was nice for a change, I feel like she's usually just a small contributing character. Having Britta and Shirley in the golf cart was awesome, I was glad to see Britta kick ass as well ;) I liked Troy's evolution and how Jeff acknowledges him really as a "man" now and truly respects him regardless of the age difference. I miss this Troy that has gone slightly downhill from Season 3 onwards (Season 4 especially), where he is always played out to be just a weird guy. I prefer the weird Troy who still can come up with plans and ideas and likes buttstuff! I also really liked how they developed Pearce through this episode, it really left room for some cool possibilities for Season 3 (which they didn't exploit well in my opinion in the first episode of the third season). The last scene with the touching story Pearce tells the group is very well scripted because I thought it was really believable. It's a shame they chose to completely take a step back in Pearce's evolution in Season 3 when they chose to resolve the Pearce-is-out-the-gang-what- do- we-do dilemma. Making him sort of pay his way into the gang's class just to be with them again shatters his growth we see in this episode.

A well deserved 10/10 for me, this episode has everything in it. I had to paused I laughed so much when Pearce shoots the two last professional players after they ask "Who's this guy?" and Pearce answers "Your mother's lover!". Also (I know this is in A Fistfull of Paintballs), when Chang tries to join the Mathclub group and asks "Are you guys Asian? -That's pretty racist man. -That's not a 'no'!" Even though this episode has a lot of action, I was still laughing the whole 21 minutes. Community seriously outdid themselves for this episode, and it remains without a doubt one of my favourite episodes of all the series I watch, amazing TV right here.

Human beings! Human beings!

[safenoe · 10/10 · 29 January 2022]

The exciting climax of season 2, and Greendale is triumphant over arch-enemy City College thankfully. The Star Wars references were superb.

We're left hanging about Pierce's future with the Study Group. Community lives on, and it endures for every generation to come.

Please, six seasons and a movie.

Season 2: Very enjoyable season aside from some small missteps here and there

[bob the moo · 14 August 2015]

In typically self-referential form, the second season of Community returns with hopes that it will be more self-contained adventures and fewer relationship-driven plots. This it does in a season that sees the return of paint ball (wisely using it as the season-closer this time), a stop-motion episode, a faux-retrospective clip show, and of course a brilliant Dungeons & Dragons episode that brought my watching of the season to a pause as I went back to it several times.

It does remain a show that needs you to go along with its very meta ways, but it has great energy in doing so. Although the nature of many of the plots does mean that the season as a whole doesn't totally flow, it does suit the material well, and gives it a punchy pacing to the episodes. Some of the decisions in season-long threads are a bit odd though, and not always successful. Shirley's baby is of course one of these that stands out the most, but a more interesting one is that of Pierce. In this season he is much more than just the difficult one in the group, but is more and more marginalized by the plots as part of creating and driving the narratives. This does actually work quite well (as seen in the D&D episode), but it has a price – and that price is that his character is really pushed out of the show almost, and with the season's ending it is hard to see a natural way for that to be undone. Whether than changes the dynamic of the show or not I don't know, but it was a good tool in the season, even if it did have this impact.

The key thing is that it remains funny throughout, and does so in a silly yet smart manner. The emotional core of the show is of course present to a point, however I felt it was balanced out pretty well by the meta aspect of the writing and delivery, so it never got too sentimental or corny, even when it did. The cast are not perfect perhaps, but all fit their characters well and are funny in their timing and delivery – even if the material very much keeps them where they are without too much movement (Chase aside). Generally though, it is a very consistent and funny season, that had me from start to finish, throwing in some particularly strong episodes and moments along the way.