Everything I liked about Breaking In was destroyed in 22 painful minutes of the season 2 premiere of the show.
Best physical comedian characters (Dutch & Josh)....GONE
Oz's sharp & sarcastic and enigmatic tough-love management style....GONE
Cameron & Melanie's will they or won't they.....GONE
Another quirky & off-putting female character added....GROAN
This zombie show would have been better off as a corpse.
EVERY.SINGLE.POINT. YOU mentioned is TRUE! this is another show?!?! i will go and rewatch season 1 because that was fantastic! cant believe how much they screwed up oz and the cam and mel dynamic! :(
shareFor awhile, this show WAS gone, but got hauled back as part of a deal for another show. By that time, the people who played Dutch, Josh, and Mel had already signed onto other shows. Mel put in 4 episodes and her character GOES. The main problem this season is, they didn't get much lead time before they had to go into the studio, and it shows.
shareeverything you said, 1oo% right on.
I loved this show, soo happy when I found out it was coming back,.......then I read about the changes
snd might I add Melina is leaving the soon, she's only signed on for a handful of eps. I'm guessing the writers want the brit girl to be Camerons love interest, so far I don't feel the chemistry between the two.
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Agree 100%. I was really glad they brought it back, but not like this. That was awful.
Yep, they made it worse, it's Veronica Mars season 3 all over again, trying to change it to what they think will attract more viewers while completely alienating the fans they had in the previous season.
"Candy CANES?? Are you mocking me?" - Dr. Gregory House
It blew my mind a series of 6 episodes would have to under go such dramatic change to still be picked up mid-season. The O.P was right on all parts....
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It's more like "Human Target" season 2 (the FINAL one). Fox destroyed that well-oiled machine in order to "rescue" it for season two. They destroyed this one too. Nearly twenty two minutes of crap stinking up my DVR.
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Network executives have no clue what makes a successful show. And every show HAS to be a huge success, or they don't consider it worth keeping. So when a show doesn't do great in the ratings, the only thing they can think of is to make random changes and hope the ratings improve.
actually it got better.. way more inside jokes for tekkies.
if you look for a good drama, it's the wrong serie.
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3 episodes in....and everything you said from ep 1 still holds. This show is over. I really liked the first season and I thought it had some great potential...another Community I was expecting.
The show's not as funny without Dutch & Josh. The role of OZ in the first season was hilarious, now his character has been neutered.
The love angst from Cameron & Melanie was really good in S1, in the three episodes it was almost non-existence and felt forced in this last episode. Of course now she's gone so this plot is dead.
Mullaly's character is ANNOYING. I thought she could grow on me in Ep2 or Ep3 but it isn't getting better.
The only good move so far is the british girl. She's funny...in a naive sort of way. She's basically playing the role of Cameron in S1 when he was the outsider.
I agree that the changes aren't necessarily for the better, but I'm still managing to like the show. I do miss Oz's previous characterization, and I more than miss the mission-per-episode format.
But I didn't even notice Josh was missing (I knew SOMEBODY was, but damned if I could remember the guy's name or face until I read this post), and Dutch was always better in small doses for me, though I remember so many threads during S1 complaining about him and how obnoxious he was so it's funny that now he's gone people are lamenting his absence.
Mulally doesn't fit well at all, but I think they're starting to find a place for her, ie, mostly in a secondary story like she was this week trying to have her Blind Side moment with the hacker.
But sacrificing the missions is what is really hurting the show in my opinion. They need to get back to those.
"She should have some sense, she's getting a PhD. My kid eats waffsicles!"
Are they really abandoning missions? They had one in every episode so far (although in the first one they gave one themselves), and in second episode they technically had two.
To be honest, I thought it was gonna go be much worse, especially after that first episode, but now I'm actually looking forward to the next one.
I wouldn't say "abandoning," and when I said sacrificing, I mean they're devoting less time to them. They used to be the focus of the episodes, and now the missions are secondary to the inter-office drama/antics. I also miss the mission set-ups and planning sessions where they would break down what each team member would be responsible for. Now they just feel rushed.
"She should have some sense, she's getting a PhD. My kid eats waffsicles!"
Couldn't agree more with everything said. The show was witty, intelligent and fun, and they've turned it into a lifeless, mindless comedy. The tongue has been violently ripped from the cheek, and forcefully inserted elsewhere.
Megan Mullally's character is horrid, unfunny, nails-on-chalkboard irritating, completely unnecessary, and firmly unredeemable. There is absolutely nothing they could do short of having her eaten alive by escaped, rabid wombats that would cause me to stop loathing her, and even that act would merely stop me from urinating on her grave in protest and contempt.
The loss of Trevor Moore is just short of tragic, but at least this I understand, and could only hope, somewhat selfishly, that his other endeavor crashes and he's motivated to return. I liked Rosenbaum's character (except for at the last when he started to become full-time --a little Dutch goes a long way), but can live without him, so won't complain on that point.
Mel isn't gone for good, if by chance you weren't aware of that. She'll be back after House wraps, unless she "gets a better offer" (read: bigger paycheck) and decided not to. She got the role on House after BI got canned, and came back to do what she could for now, and will resume her role when able.
And now for the writing. Season 1: Excellent. Tight, clean, to-the-point, creative and with purpose. Season 2, so far: Police Academy 6, rejected fourth draft, revised by the 2-man team of the guy from Jackass and an exhausted MTV intern. You can almost see the dread, doom and painful awareness of the crap they're being forced to spew by the depressed cast that are too professional to actually say anything.
The only chance this show has to survive is for the powers-that-be to grow a pair and allow the creative talent to resume, y'know, fuxxing creating, and stop taking their direction from soulless, clueless bean-counters that wouldn't know good writing if it came shooting explosively out of their dust-mite infested nether regions.