We Need To Fix Television

NBC Universal Replacing Dan Harmon as COMMUNITY Showrunner

Can someone please tell me why NBC keeps making TERRIBLE DECISIONS?! They've already roundly ruined the Siffy, and have an overall lackluster lineup on USA, at best, with one or two gems.

If they stick by this decision, and Harmon's gone do they have any idea how many people will stop watching their Flagship? I mean... Really? They're taking the heart and soul of Community, and they're going to... What? Workshop it?

Oh. That's EXACTLY what you're going to do.

When I first heard about the "hiatus" plans, and they started making meta-jokes about their critics... I was worried we would have another Arrested Development situation on our hands.

This is much worse.

And yes, there are bigger problems in the world than who's writing a TV show, but you know what? The quality and content of our entertainment both reflects and informs the quality of our societies-at-rest. Are we willing to think a minute and realise that an analogy IS "like a thought with another thought's hat on," or do we want to watch people pretend-to-for-real hunt ghosts, or live in a house together and hate each other, or get married, or be from New Jersey?

Yeah, sure, you can do both, but more and more, networks are thinking you only want to do the latter. So, how the fuck do we show them how wrong they are?

I am just so tired of people pandering to the lowest common demographics and doing things like making the nerd equivalent of blackface, rather than doing the work to keep a smart, genuinely funny show up and running.

Stop Ruining Actually Creative Entertainment. You're just... you're just fucking killing me, here...

And yes, right, "read more books," or whatever the fuck snotty, anti-television thing you want to say, but think about this: We have a medium of communication which can reach millions of people at a go, to inform, and edify, and educate, and entertain, and enlighten, and what are we doing with it?

We're using it to make everyone think that the stereotypes that they have about each other are true. That's all.

That's All.

In which I Interview Jared Axelrod:

An Interview with Comics Creator Jared Axelrod

. . .Here's what Happened when Mr. Axelrod Consented to this insanity:

Jared Axelrod: Let's do this! I am ready to be sleep-deprived-interviewed! Is it cool if we do this via Twiiter? I'm out and about.

Wolven: "Is it cool..." he says. OF COURSE it's cool! For the record, what is your name, quest, and favourite color?

JA: Jared Axelrod, to tell all the stories taking up space in my brain, and red.

W: Also, if memory serves, you just got the advance copy of your "Battle of Blood and Ink" [Now Available At Retailers Everywhere--also Amazon]. Tell us a little about how that felt and, if possible, describe the experience in some kind of non-cupcake-related pastry metaphor.

JA: Amazing. I still breathe heavy when I hold it, it's so exciting. It's got Library of Congress info in it! How cool is that? Like being presented with a stack of pancakes after smelling them all morning. Except by "morning" I mean "6 years."

W: Masterfully done. . .

More awesome answers, at the link!