Community, S03E22
Jeff began to focus on completing the phony degree he used to lawyer with, but his friends were too concerned about Troy's absence or their problems to care about passing biology. However, Jeff decided to represent Shirley when Pierce got his own lawyer to battle her for the right of ownership of the sandwich shop they had finally been granted in the cafeteria. Troy was miserable at the AC school, but after the vice-dean passed mysteriously, Troy saw there was a need for him to be there. He defeated the man who had setup the vice-dean's death and claimed the position as the "True Repairman." Thanks to him taking on that role, he was able to return to the main campus with his friends freely. Abed also struggled to keep Evil Abed out of power with Troy gone and only Jeff's closing remarks about helping others helped "regular" Abed return.
For a season finale, I felt like this episode wasn't as moving as the other two, but it was still good. Abed definitely stole the show again with his descent into madness with Evil Abed resurfacing. I became more convinced that he wasn't going to be all right when Britta revealed that she was going to counsel him now that Troy was gone. She couldn't counsel the rain to fall if it was already raining. So it was a delight to see Evil Abed already in place, whittling down at Britta's sanity and turning her dark. I like that he kept referring to the darkest timeline from one of my favorite episodes and was determined to change things into that timeline. Still, I didn't think that he was so unbalanced that he would get a bone saw and go after Jeff! I was so scared he was going to cut him! Thankfully his cord was too short. I was laughing when he tried to get Jeff to approach him, and Jeff just kinda ignored him.
Another part that was good was seeing how unhappy Troy was at the AC school. He just didn't seem to belong, even with everyone in identical uniforms at the school. But I thought that when the vice-dean suddenly died after telling Troy that he was destined to be the "True Repairman," it was just a ploy to get Troy to accept his fate. Instead, it seemed that the man who replaced the vice-dean had just arranged an accident to bump him off. Wow. And they would have never known if Troy hadn't challenged the murderer in the Sun Chamber. I liked how Troy just stood in there with his arms folded and then fixed the broken AC unit in a second. Damn, he has skills. And despite that he's not the strongest guy around, he does have common sense and can wield leadership when it's necessary. This was shown when the ACs guys wanted to lock the murderer in some another weird chamber of their own:
When Troy finally came back to the group, I absolutely loved when he went straight to hug Abed, even though Britta was right in front of him. He totally ignored her for like a good couple of minutes until she had to wrestle away his attention. He did hug her, but I felt more love between Troy and Abed again than with Britta and Troy. She's definitely going to have to try a little harder than that if she ever wants to capture his heart.
I'm not sure why at the very end we saw them taking down the Dreamatorium (but Abed still had a cardboard box with the grid lines inside). Did they want to get rid of it to prevent another Evil Abed incident? And besides Britta, who else knew about it? But maybe she told the rest of them about it. It was also interesting that Chang was seen lurking in the air vents of the dean of City College (who seemed to be plotting something against Greendale again). So perhaps he'll be gaining a position of power there in the next season.
Well, the finale wasn't as great as I wish I was, but it wasn't too bad. There was some good jokes and, of course, we got to see a different side of Abed that was disturbing and funny. Even though the season ended a lot quicker than I expected, I'm happy that it will be around for at least one more year (here's hoping for more!). I'm nowhere near ready for it go off the air!
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