“There is skill to it. More importantly, it has to be joyful, effortless, fun. TV defeats its own purpose when it’s pushing an agenda, or trying to defeat other TV or being proud or ashamed of itself for existing. It’s TV; it’s comfort. It’s a friend you’ve known so well, and for so long you just let it be with you, and it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day or phone in a day, and it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with Levar Burton and never come back. Because eventually, it all will.”

— Abed Nadir on Television

And just like that Community has ended. Or did it? As a long-time viewer, this certainly felt like a goodbye and not like the “see you soon” that had been the finales of the last seasons. If you’ve never watched community, you should (really, go to Hulu or Google Play or iTunes and watch it and then head to Yahoo! Screen to watch the last season).

If you knew me, you’d know that me sending you to a Yahoo! property is totally out-of-character for me. Not because Yahoo! is bad, mind you. Mainly because I had never watched anything there, until they saved community that is, but I digress…

Community was a very niche series in the vein of “The Office”. I have never really found the appeal of the latter but the former was (is?), to me, amazing.

A series about a group of people who are getting a second chance in their lives and come together to grow up and learn from each other. It started on NBC but got cancelled and moved on to find it’s methaphorical second wind proving that fanbase can, sometimes, be enough to keep a show going.

Characters left. Sometimes in expected ways, sometimes for personal reasons, and sometimes in an uncomfortable way. And while the show struggled to find itself, in the end it delivered a great finale which still leaves us asking, is this really the end?

The series began using #sixSeasonsAndAMovie to keep the show going during the years it struggled, and now that we’ve reached the end of the sixth season, all we have left to say is #andAMovie.

Here’s to hoping this hashtag-prophecy is a self-fulfilling one.