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Comment on NHL 13: Hockey Strikes Back by HeyItsKamo

HeyItsKamo — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:32:53 +0000

Yeah, added a few recently. Let me know if you want me to post screens of any other players.

Comment on NHL 13: Hockey Strikes Back by Artour

Artour — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:06:06 +0000

Can you put more player models like these please ?

Comment on The Curious Case of Chevy Chase and Community by Alvin

Alvin — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:18:59 +0000

Seems the big blowup was because Harmon was in over his head as a show runner. Chevy signed on expecting a certain level of professionalism, and didn’t get it. He wanted to be on and off the set by a certain time, aside from any of the usual technical issues. He expected his character to be adequately written. It really wasn’t.
Chevy doesn’t support people in that he doesn’t babysit. If anything, people should babysit him, if need be. He doesn’t play the role as a father figure. That’s just how he rolls. If that makes him an asshole, so be it. Dan needed help, and Chevy wasn’t going to do it, and in fact, made it worse.
Chevy might say, “at the amount they’re paying the showrunner, I shouldn’t have to be dealing with that shit.” And he’s right. He could have been helpful, but he wasn’t. He did his part to help Harman twist in the wind and humiliate himself.
Just because you can write, doesn’t mean you can manage people, or yourself. They are completely separate skill sets. That’s what people aren’t getting in all this.
Harmon was in over his head as a leader, Chevy said, “sorry you have to eat shit, but I’m not helping you,” and that’s all she wrote.
If you can’t lead, the show will collapse around you, as people look to save their own ass. It disintegrates in slow motion, one bit at a time. That’s always the case where big money is on the line.
And that’s why Harmon does podcasts now. That’s where he belongs-or working for someone who is a leader.

Comment on The Curious Case of Chevy Chase and Community by Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:27:35 +0000

There’s various bits and pieces of information floating about the web, but the popular opinion is that the Chase-Harmon “feud” is a distraction.

My guess is that it was Chase being his usual pain in the ass and the staff were tired of his antics so they let him walk. Chase is notoriously difficult to work with and it’s a miracle he lasted 4 seasons, especially since Chase had been threatening to leave for years.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Chase’s departure is an indirect consequence of the departure of Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan and, to a lesser extent, the Russos and their crew. Harmon spent very little time on set, and they were the people who dealt with the day-to-day running of the show, and they also departed at the end of season 3.

There were plenty of good reasons for Sony to fire Harmon that had nothing to do with Chase. Harmon was a pain in the ass because he delivered scripts late (which screws up the schedule, leading to late nights and the show going overbudget as you have to pay crew overtime), made the show “unaccessible”, ignored notes, and liked to do crazy ambitious things. He was a TV executives worst nightmare. For example, Harmon famously blew the entire seasons music budget on ABBA songs in season 2 and there was an entire subplot based around making fun of an Sony executive for having a girls name because Harmon didn’t like his tone in season 3.

There’s an interview with Neil Goldman on the Nerdist Writers Podcast where he pretty much says that there will never be another show like Community on network television because NBC was in such management disarray that they couldn’t give the show proper oversight, which allowed them to get away with doing crazy stuff. Community’s ratings were low enough that Harmon constantly thought the show was about to be axed, pushing him to do whatever crazy ideas he could come up with, yet the show just did well enough to be renewed because NBC was a trainwreck.

Comment on The Curious Case of Chevy Chase and Community by HeyItsKamo

HeyItsKamo — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the comment, dude- that explains a lot more than what I was able to find. This whole Chase/Harmon/Community thing was really interesting to me, but I found out (and you noted above) that, flat out, a lot just isn’t being said about the matter.

Still, I’m wondering why Chase decided to split mid-way through the taping of season 4. I read that he had hinted during the taping of season 3 that he was tired of doing television, something along the lines of, “it’s the lowest form of entertainment.”