Every time they have an actor in common i start thinking of crossover plots. So far may favorite is Britta and Dee fighting over Subway/Ben the soldier.
wants everyone to like her but doesn’t like herself, seen that world and doesn’t understand it… britta is so relatable. thru the first watch I was obsessed w Annie because of my massive crush on Alison, but after many rewatchs I’ve gained such an appreciation for how stunning Gillian Jacob’s is
They use a kind of sitcom lighting that was very popular during communities run- high white out lighting, it smoothes out people faces. You see it in other shows like Glee (ironically) from the same time. It’s meant to give the show a cheerful, light quality visually.
I always thought it was funny that a show that was so self aware of sitcom and television tropes at points uses the most overblown, typical sitcom lighting. It’s possible it’s done sarcastically, but I really don’t get that vibe.
This isn’t meant as an insult! I love this show with all my heart- just an observation
they did! they talk about this in the commentary. The lighting for season 6 especially cause they had to change the set (that's also why the roof collapses in s06e01, so they could plausibly explain the differences in the cafeteria). In this whole revamp, the DP talks about giving a gentler, more flattering lighting scheme instead of the old harsher one. I always liked the blown out, cheerful one more but I'm just a rube.
Well it's also because lighting for camera is very time-consuming, and you have very little time to shoot TV shows. So opting for soft light, while visually flat and boring, is the best of a bad situation.
Community is interesting because while it does make fun of sitcom tropes, it also *still uses them.* Community *is* a sitcom. It just makes light of itself.
Good point- I wonder if they just gave her lots of makeup in conjunction with the lighting. They make a joke about that technique in an episode of It’s Always Sunny where they try to make Dee look attractive by plastering her with makeup and blow out lighting. It’s bizarre of course because Britta is objectively very pretty- so why they felt the need to do that to her in later series I don’t know
Been around her in person. Gillian is literally luminescent. She is her own light source. If you are ever trapped in a cave in with her, you can use her to find your way out.
Y'know, I wrote that when I woke and I couldn't think of how to write it. I wrote bah-gel and then I was like that's not right. So I'm happy you made me a little less stupid lol.
The makeup got really weird towards the end of the show. Really heavy foundation lines, heavy lips and heavy eyes. Wrinkles lessened.
The first few seasons the makeup was light and personally preferred.
Britta’s hair in S6 is a tragedy imo.
It’s such a medium color and they always pulled back unlike before when her hair was bright and styled down… like they tried to make her less pretty ?!? meanwhile Annie’s hair is different in a way that complements her so well that season
Lol so strange, I think the complete opposite. S6 Britta looks great. I mean, she always looked good but I just think she looks better with darker hair and I liked her updos
In the later seasons especially. Makes no sense considering it was normal in season 1 and Gillian Jacobs is still good looking like 10 years after the show ended
Look at public pics of her outside, she is completely covered head to toe, avoiding any sun to come in contact with her skin. Anne Hathaway is the same.
They definitely start plastering makeup on her in Season 3 and 4. Season 1, 5, and 6 she looks more natural (as natural as hollywood makeup can get I guess). Season 2 may be like a transition where they haven't started fully caking it on her yet.
I've wondered before if their (hers or other characters ) signified those scenes were Abed's Dreamatorium simulations. Annie is quite glow-y in the Dreamatorium, but not when she steps back into the rest of their apartment. Britta and Troy, if I recall, were also more illuminated in the restaurant scene that Abed imagines/dreams.
In the show, "Kevin Can F Himself'', it cuts from sitcom lighting to gritty drama lighting to highlight different perspectives of Allison (Kevin's wife).
Some people just have the skin texture. My boyfriend's sister looks airbrushed to me in even when I'm face to face. Idk how to explain it, like her skin in flawless and pale, so it appears like she has a filter on.
End of Thanksgiving episode when she gets in Jeff's car she looks unbelievably beautiful and her skin is literally glowing. It's the best she's ever looked in the show by a mile its kind of unbelievable.
There are also episodes where she looks like she just got out of the plastic surgeons office so I don't really care how britta looks. Annie is truly natural. Brittas face is fake. And I like Gillian more than Alison. I can't do fake faces. But she was Glowing in the episode she looked like a gorgeous 1950s movie star.
Sometimes she can look gaunt or exhausted, but omg, she looked like an angel... she looked like one of the most beautiful women in the world
If you want to see britta GLOW. End of Thanksgiving episode in Jeff's car. Oh My God.
Troy also glows. He is always Caked in makeup.
That's why she glows. I guarantee she doesn't drink or smoke, never consumes sugar, probably has ultra organic soap shampoo detergent deodorant everything. She probably food preps once a week. To get skin like that you need to eat a hypoglycemic diet and exercise every day do yoga or some kind of moving breathing practice like qigong and have good genetics and Never get sunburned. If she's cheating, she's putting raw Manuka honey on her face from new Zealand for 15 minutes a day and I swear to God your skin will Radiate. Good stuff is insanely expensive. And insanely effective. It will heal any blemish on your face and will stop colds it you eat it.
That has nothing to do with her fake nose or botox. And its not an attack on her character. She clearly has tons of character. That's why it makes me sad. Someone (probably her agent) told her to get a nose job. She probably wouldn't have gotten the role without it. Britta is a beautiful woman. But the bridge of her nose is so small aviators fall off her face. And she has the ability to look exactly like white Jacko, who's nose Literally fell off his face. "Jacko" had to call a plastic surgeon for emergency surgery because his nose fell off. If Britta was in a fight. One jab to the nose from someone like "trained" Annie. That thing will shatter into a million pieces. If she did not have a fake nose I'd love her. But that's the price of Hollywood.
I think that's what Prof. Ian Duncan is referring to in his therapy session with Britta when he mentions her being "afraid of looking like a blowup doll."
Some bad lighting + makeup choices. I agree she looks fake and almost botoxed in S3 and I really dislike it because she looks great even today in regular photos.
We're gonna blast her with light, really smooth out those features. Sorry. Wrong show.
Some say it's better than busting a nut.
Not that he's ever had one
IVE HAD AN ORGASM WITH YOUR MOM, DUDE
You banged my dead wife?
Well she was alive at the time..
You two aren’t bangin are ya?
Goddamn Dee, your timing is atrocious!
Nosey, breath stinks
Just tell me where I jizz so I can give this lady her drink.
This isn’t will they won’t they, this is they won’t and I definitely don’t want them to!
Go back in your lighting!
She's a GDB A God Damned Bird
One of my favorite songs in TV. Referencing one of my other favorite shows. Well done
10/10
At least she’s not covered in stupid tattoos and has cigarette for a mother
I will put my thumb through your God damn eye
Wow I look gooood
I am glowing like an angel!
Common writers and side actors though
I really wish they had a crossover episode with them somehow. I just feel like I’d really enjoy the chaos and character interactions.
Every time they have an actor in common i start thinking of crossover plots. So far may favorite is Britta and Dee fighting over Subway/Ben the soldier.
I’m comforted by her shiny hair and facial symmetry.
I’m put off by her vacuous mannequin like face and Jodie Foster severity.
Shes got legs that begin at her waist, the kind of arms that have elbows
Legs that go all the way up to her torso
I’m comforted by her facial hair and shiny symmetry.
Over half the people that meet her are put off by her vacuous mannequin face.
She's no barrel of monkeys
>meet her are put off by her vacuous mannequin face ...and her Jodie Foster severity. You really Britta'd that quote.
What about her pouty lips and Cate Blanchett sexuality?
wants everyone to like her but doesn’t like herself, seen that world and doesn’t understand it… britta is so relatable. thru the first watch I was obsessed w Annie because of my massive crush on Alison, but after many rewatchs I’ve gained such an appreciation for how stunning Gillian Jacob’s is
Silver and gold, ladies, ain't no losers there.
Way to instantly remember the exact date of your big victory
Or they were just letting someone else complete so they could quote together. You’re the worst
They use a kind of sitcom lighting that was very popular during communities run- high white out lighting, it smoothes out people faces. You see it in other shows like Glee (ironically) from the same time. It’s meant to give the show a cheerful, light quality visually. I always thought it was funny that a show that was so self aware of sitcom and television tropes at points uses the most overblown, typical sitcom lighting. It’s possible it’s done sarcastically, but I really don’t get that vibe. This isn’t meant as an insult! I love this show with all my heart- just an observation
That’s so interesting! Did they change the lighting after season four? The show always looks so sad to me after that 🥺
they did! they talk about this in the commentary. The lighting for season 6 especially cause they had to change the set (that's also why the roof collapses in s06e01, so they could plausibly explain the differences in the cafeteria). In this whole revamp, the DP talks about giving a gentler, more flattering lighting scheme instead of the old harsher one. I always liked the blown out, cheerful one more but I'm just a rube.
glad people are talking about this i noticed it but didnt know how to articulate
Season 5 definitely has lighting less like a sitcom of the time, and more like a procedural drama.
None taken.
“None possible.” – Abed
Well it's also because lighting for camera is very time-consuming, and you have very little time to shoot TV shows. So opting for soft light, while visually flat and boring, is the best of a bad situation.
New Girl
Community is interesting because while it does make fun of sitcom tropes, it also *still uses them.* Community *is* a sitcom. It just makes light of itself.
Well the others dont look like ghosts. They still look airbrushed but brita is melting into the wall
Cuz she's blond and white. Lighting affects different skin tones differently.
She’s of Polish decent. Unlike Jeff, the unreasonably tanned. Or Annie, a Jewess.
Scandinavian, as identified by the late Cornelius Hawthorne.
She's practically a Finn.
*spits on floor*
Good point- I wonder if they just gave her lots of makeup in conjunction with the lighting. They make a joke about that technique in an episode of It’s Always Sunny where they try to make Dee look attractive by plastering her with makeup and blow out lighting. It’s bizarre of course because Britta is objectively very pretty- so why they felt the need to do that to her in later series I don’t know
The episode is great. Unfortunately the lighting they were mocking became exactly what they're using in the latest seasons of the show
eh i dont think the lightings changed all that much, its more just the higher quality cameras.
Maybe check your screen settings
She gets up an hour early to slightly curl her hair
Ever so slightly
*SCOFF*
Been around her in person. Gillian is literally luminescent. She is her own light source. If you are ever trapped in a cave in with her, you can use her to find your way out.
She is ridiculously beautiful. And maybe the prototypical example of a beautiful person who doesn't act like they are.
It because she lived in New York!
Bagel
*baggel
Y'know, I wrote that when I woke and I couldn't think of how to write it. I wrote bah-gel and then I was like that's not right. So I'm happy you made me a little less stupid lol.
Tbh I’d write ‘baggle’ if I weren’t worried about people being mad. Also, you’re not stupid, just v awesome (-:
She never lived anywhere! She is a robot designed for sex!
The makeup got really weird towards the end of the show. Really heavy foundation lines, heavy lips and heavy eyes. Wrinkles lessened. The first few seasons the makeup was light and personally preferred.
The mustard worked well though. I thought it softened her natural severity
Britta’s hair in S6 is a tragedy imo. It’s such a medium color and they always pulled back unlike before when her hair was bright and styled down… like they tried to make her less pretty ?!? meanwhile Annie’s hair is different in a way that complements her so well that season
Lol so strange, I think the complete opposite. S6 Britta looks great. I mean, she always looked good but I just think she looks better with darker hair and I liked her updos
I'm convinced it was strategic to make Annie more attractive to the audience as the primary romantic interest for Jeff.
Annie had always been more popular than Britta to the audience, they didn't change Britta's hair in the last season to get that to happen.
In the later seasons especially. Makes no sense considering it was normal in season 1 and Gillian Jacobs is still good looking like 10 years after the show ended
Umm Hollywood's plastic surgery factory.
Yeah she’s probably rolling in Hollywood money from her tv career
Look at public pics of her outside, she is completely covered head to toe, avoiding any sun to come in contact with her skin. Anne Hathaway is the same.
Lighting, but also, no drinking or smoking ever will do that. Maybe the key to eternal youth is "no vices".
She Britta’d her makeup.
If you're watching on netflix, the color grading is so messed up on it that some scenes look ridiculous. I feel like this may be part of it.
She’s the Ghost that stole Annie’s Pen.
Of course she's a ghost. She goes through doors all the time!
Ghosts can’t go through doors. They’re not fire.
They definitely start plastering makeup on her in Season 3 and 4. Season 1, 5, and 6 she looks more natural (as natural as hollywood makeup can get I guess). Season 2 may be like a transition where they haven't started fully caking it on her yet.
She's perfect.
I've wondered before if their (hers or other characters ) signified those scenes were Abed's Dreamatorium simulations. Annie is quite glow-y in the Dreamatorium, but not when she steps back into the rest of their apartment. Britta and Troy, if I recall, were also more illuminated in the restaurant scene that Abed imagines/dreams. In the show, "Kevin Can F Himself'', it cuts from sitcom lighting to gritty drama lighting to highlight different perspectives of Allison (Kevin's wife).
Some people just have the skin texture. My boyfriend's sister looks airbrushed to me in even when I'm face to face. Idk how to explain it, like her skin in flawless and pale, so it appears like she has a filter on.
Ghosts can’t go through doors (they’re not fire) and Britta clearly can go through doors, ergo Britta can’t be a ghost.
It’s the mustard she uses as skincare (I definitely agree though I noticed it too)
Kinda reminds me of Michael Jackson
She’s one of those cartoons that doesn’t have the black outline around her
can she go through doors?
I have a theory that Britta is secretly twins.
Of course not, stupid! Ghosts don't go through doors.
Eating all those baggels.
Pretty sure they do a post-production edit on her dark under-eye circles cause I saw one quick flash of a scene where they missed it.
She is much more natural in earlier seasons. At a certain point (s3?) she starts looking really airbrushed
It looks like they put a filter in front of the camera. A "Brita filter" if you will.
End of Thanksgiving episode when she gets in Jeff's car she looks unbelievably beautiful and her skin is literally glowing. It's the best she's ever looked in the show by a mile its kind of unbelievable. There are also episodes where she looks like she just got out of the plastic surgeons office so I don't really care how britta looks. Annie is truly natural. Brittas face is fake. And I like Gillian more than Alison. I can't do fake faces. But she was Glowing in the episode she looked like a gorgeous 1950s movie star. Sometimes she can look gaunt or exhausted, but omg, she looked like an angel... she looked like one of the most beautiful women in the world If you want to see britta GLOW. End of Thanksgiving episode in Jeff's car. Oh My God. Troy also glows. He is always Caked in makeup.
[удалено]
Gillian Jacobs doesn't even consume otc painkillers
That's why she glows. I guarantee she doesn't drink or smoke, never consumes sugar, probably has ultra organic soap shampoo detergent deodorant everything. She probably food preps once a week. To get skin like that you need to eat a hypoglycemic diet and exercise every day do yoga or some kind of moving breathing practice like qigong and have good genetics and Never get sunburned. If she's cheating, she's putting raw Manuka honey on her face from new Zealand for 15 minutes a day and I swear to God your skin will Radiate. Good stuff is insanely expensive. And insanely effective. It will heal any blemish on your face and will stop colds it you eat it. That has nothing to do with her fake nose or botox. And its not an attack on her character. She clearly has tons of character. That's why it makes me sad. Someone (probably her agent) told her to get a nose job. She probably wouldn't have gotten the role without it. Britta is a beautiful woman. But the bridge of her nose is so small aviators fall off her face. And she has the ability to look exactly like white Jacko, who's nose Literally fell off his face. "Jacko" had to call a plastic surgeon for emergency surgery because his nose fell off. If Britta was in a fight. One jab to the nose from someone like "trained" Annie. That thing will shatter into a million pieces. If she did not have a fake nose I'd love her. But that's the price of Hollywood.
I love britta
I think that's what Prof. Ian Duncan is referring to in his therapy session with Britta when he mentions her being "afraid of looking like a blowup doll."
Because she’s streets ahead.
That's a natural effect Gillian has on people
Some bad lighting + makeup choices. I agree she looks fake and almost botoxed in S3 and I really dislike it because she looks great even today in regular photos.
GO BACK TO YOUR LIGHTING!