Parks And Recreation - Season 7 [*Spoilers*]

The shouty guy was a complete fúcking tool. Spoiled every scene he was in and was about as funny as an ingrown toenail and having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic both at the same time. You have to hand it to them for mixing the show up but that gob****e was someone they could have done without.

squonk wrote: »

The shouty guy was a complete fúcking tool. Spoiled every scene he was in and was about as funny as an ingrown toenail and having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic both at the same time. You have to hand it to them for mixing the show up but that gob****e was someone they could have done without.

Yep reminded me of poochie in that simpsons episode. I can't think of one redeeming feature of his character

Yeah, I found Craig/Billy like nails on a chalkboard. He was just a one-note joke who overreacted to everything. He also didn't feel like a proper counterpart to Donna in the way that the other Eagleton staff did with their Pawnee versions.

Wasn't overly impressed with either episode but loved Joan's 'commissioner Gordon and people of gotham' bit

I only had time to catch the first episode last night. I'm not sure I'm convinced so far. I still got some laughs and, relatively speeking, I got more laughs than I get normally from comedies so it's still good in that regard but it's just not really near as good as P&R can be! I think the time shift isn't helping and splitting the group into Team Leslie and Team Ron isn't really that particularly interesting.

Once I'd watched the first episode it occured to me that the episode with the Pawnee gig and Little Sebastian last season had more of a feel of a real finalé to it. The way I'm looking at it is that that was the Finalé and anything afterwards is just a victory lap really.

Eh, not a great season opener but not bad either.

I hate their stupid Star Trek looking tablets they're all using, and I really hope they don't keep making 'hilarious' jokes about crazy things that will apparently happen in the next 3 years.

It makes no sense that Ron started his own company, we know he doesn't need the money and seemed to only be working to slow down the government. He hates things being done officially, and to set up a company like that would be nothing but paperwork and official inspections.

It was also kind of weird that they didn't show Leslie and Ben's kids, even though they were both on screen for the majority of the episodes, day and night. Poor kids, they've been shuffled off to sitcom daycare never to be seen again.

So, it wasn't just me then :rolleyes:

I was really looking forward to the new season, but my anticipation was not sated by what I saw. The actors are playing slightly different versions of their characters, but not the characters that drove the show up to now.

It looked like the actors were enjoying themselves. Lesley slapping Jam was good physical comedy. Pity the same enjoyment wasn't to be had this side of the screen.

Having watched the second episode I thought it was weaker than the opener actually. I guess I was just very disappointed though. Any other season Tammy or Jamm showing up would be the makings of a great episode. By correlation putting them together should be a knock it out of the park moment but it kind of fell flat. I did like the piece in the library and April's search for a new career with Ben was funny.

The show worked great based on the original setup but I think now there are problems.

Ron: As said, why would he set up a business? Ron was great as the Govt. employee who hated the Govt. He was also great as Leslie's mentor. Now they've made Ron a focused, dynamic businessman. He was much funnier sat behind his desk spouting sheer comedy gold nuggets.

Tom: The fun bit about Tom was that he was a bit of a Walter Mitty. He seriously wanted to be mega trendy and successful and his epic failures were always worth a watch. You could laugh at him but felt sorry for him as well. Now he's successful and doesn't appear to be screwing up in any way. They've changed the character. It's fine because there's only 6 episodes to go but kind of a pity, though nice to see him finally do well.

Donna: Who? She's barely getting screentime now, and doesn't have half the impact she did when she has.

April/Andy: They just seem to be gong through the motions now. I really love the pair of them but it struck me last night that they're almost parodies of themselves.

Leslie: Still kind of the same which is good. I'd like to see the kids though. I think they're a pretty big part of her life at this stage but you wouldn't think it to look at the show.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I though Andy had some decent scenes as well....have they dumbed him down even more?

Not sure. It's why I think he's just an Andy parody now. The stupidity seems more blatant at any rate.

Jaysus that gay stereotype who's supposed to be Donnas Eagleton counterpart is a disaster, they should have cut him straight away, if they brought in a black stereotype that outdated there would be uproar, worst of all he cant act and he's never done anything funny.