#jeffxbritta

I really enjoyed the beginning of season 6 (for the most part), but the latter half had just been severely lacking. And now, that finale was so disappointing. Thank you for focusing on Jeff and Annie, because that is exactly what this show is centered around. Oh wait--no it’s not.

Not only had Jeff and Britta’s relationship not been wrapped up efficiently, but Jeff and Annie’s did after not being brought up for nearly the entire season. Just because you throw in a few “ex-boyfriend” references doesn’t mean that you effectively gave that story line any closure at all.

Did you happen to forget that the show began with Jeff and Britta? That they had constantly been hooking up and hitting on each other? That they almost got married on multiple occasions? That Jeff had just recently gotten jealous of his best friend wanting to get with Britta? (Which, by the way, was never brought up again--um, what?)

And you’re trying to tell me that Jeff’s midlife crisis (which nobody even cared about, let’s be honest) was “solved” thanks to Annie within one minute? Again, literally nothing led up to these developments in previous episodes. You wouldn’t think that maybe Britta wouldn’t be more suited for such a thing considering she, you know, actually studies psychology and all that?

I’m not upset that Jeff and Annie became canon because Jeff and Britta didn’t. I’m upset that they became canon because it was poorly executed throughout the show, especially this particular season. The whole meta aspect of the show would have been fine without the Jeff and Annie focus. It felt like they put that in there because they wanted to give the vocal fans what they want. It would have been a much better finale if we just focused on the sentimentality brought about by Abed.

Abed makes this show, and he was sidelined thanks to the apparent show of fan service. I just don’t understand this show anymore. If there is one thing that makes me furious about a piece of entertainment, it’s when the creators ignore their own story and characters just to make fans/editors/others happy.