Opinions on the Dan Harmon news?

[katewrites]

Well, flist? Opinions on the Dan Harmon/Community news? I find tumblr to be a place of increasingly scary tinhattery.

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[katewrites]

YES and YES to the Harmon thing. I'm not saying that they're perfect, but when I think about showrunners I love that have a huge impact on their shows - Tina Fey, Matt Nix, Joss Whedon, Josh Freidman - you think about how CLASSY they are. Like, they know their fans are a big deal, but they're also aware that getting involved with arguments on the internet is BAD BUSINESS.

Which is something I have never felt like Harmon got. TV/Movies are a business and like any business if you give yourself enough of a reputation of being too gossipy or too honest or just too "not good in the locker room" you stop getting people who want to work for you.

I feel like I'm bashing Harmon, but I guess I'm just frustrated because this kind of discomfort I've felt with his level of honesty, his trash talking actors, producers and networks has coalesced since reading his response to the news of his firing. I've seen classier responses and it just doesn't put me in his corner as much as a response like, "I can't wait to see what they bring to the table, I look forward to the new direction the show is going, etc" would.

I feel like he was short shrifted, and really done one over, but I can't believe his agent is so incompetent that after Community was renewed he wasn't on the phone with Sony trying to secure a new contract.