jade_sabre | this week's Glee

was like Everything I've Loved About This Season thrown up against Everything I Hated About Season One Times Ten. Agree/disagree/discuss.

Lupa: you know... i just realized
none of the songs this episode had anything to do with the plot of the episode
Jade: ...
you are right
Lupa: sloppy writinngggg
Jade: THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE AWESOME
ryan murphy sucks the end
Lupa: so he writes half of them, is that right?
Jade: a third, I think
there seem to be three writers they cycle through
and I'm sure all three work on every episode
and one takes precedence
but this episode
it was like Voice of Reason versus Voice of I'll Do What I Want
Lupa: yeah...
so where was the reason part in this episode again?
Jade: Carl being like
I'M NOT GOING TO GRIND WITH STUDENTS
Sue being like, WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THOSE KIDS IS CREEPY
Lupa: as you said, true fax.
Jade: Carl being like, WHY ARE YOU SEXUALLY HARRASSING MY GIRLFRIEND
Lupa: haha.
"unlike you, i actually care about the arts"
Jade: yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

in other news, as soon as Emma started her little solo, I muted my TV, blocked it with my laptop, and listened to Susan Sarandon singing instead. I believe I have an Angry Rant About Objectification And The Utter Fuckwittery Of That Scene, but it's bedtime.

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Yeah, I don't actually EXPECT things of Glee -- it's just a mildly amusing thing to have on in the background while I fold laundry, with occasional forays into interesting stuff or good songs.

Emma, yuck, right with you there.

NO ONE IS TIM CURRY. Gods that man is a genius. However, I adore Mercedes and since I expected nothing whatsoever from that song, I thought it was great. No one else on the show could have even come close to attempting it. Okay, it made no sense, but whatever.

She did blow the song out of the water, but...it was like she wasn't paying attention to the words at all! It made me the sad.

<3

(I saw him on Broadway as Mozart and he was so amazing)

(brb jealous forever)

SO disappointing--not because of the Rocky Horror part (only seen the movie once or twice, don't know the music so I didn't really care) but it seemed so wrong for the message to be against objectifying/making sex objects of the teen students, but then that's exactly what the tv show Glee did, with Sam in his costume and the girls watching Will and Emma's horrid, horrid scene and everyone acting so out of character. In the early episodes, at least Will cared about the kids and the school could have *almost* been a real school. Now it's just so damned goofy with the characters' actions not making much sense. I mean, they've always been caricatures, but honestly. Blech.

YES YES that is pretty much the rant I wanted to have--like, I was like, "oh, okay, let's make this an episode about body image, interesting," and then it went and screwed everything up. I'm basically striking this entire episode from my memory in terms of continuity--it ignored the Brittany/Santana issues, completely subverted Sam's character (I think, really, his lines were originally meant for Puck, but then Mark Salling had contract issues and they kept him out of the episode, so they had to give the lines to someone), and involved Will's love life, which is a shortcut to Disaster Lane. Blech blech blech.

there were some good lines--mostly from Sue and John Stamos--but overall, forgettable.

Okay, I am shallow, to be sure, but...I am the lone voice of dissension, here.

*cringes*

I adored Emma's number with Will! Yeeeah, there was a squick-factor, but frankly, her singing squashed it flat. I loved it. And the girls made me laugh out loud, sorry. But then, I really don't think of them as high school students, so, maybe that's it. And I don't like Emma and Will as characters, even, but dang, I thought she knocked that one out of the park. I thought it was the best number in the show. Followed closely by John Stamos'.

*shrugs*

sorry

:D

ETA: Important point. Not only can I not sing, I don't know anything about singing or music. This might have something to do with my review, since I know you sing, Jade, and Philia sings, but I'm not sure about Chex. Prolly. Seems like everybody can, but I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

Well, Tiegirl, maybe it was because you actually LISTENED to it. I didn't, I can't stand Emma and Will, so I turned it off at that point and watched a recording of Sherlock!

Also, Megan says she can't sing at all, so you have good company!

Dittoing what Philia said--I muted the song about five seconds into it, so I have no idea what it sounded like!

Now that I'm all, like, working in a high school and stuff, I see where Glee really succeeds as having them be high school students (and other places where they really fail--but Finn is definitely one of their success, and I love him so much now omg)--but regardless of whether or not the kids act like kids, the teachers are still cast as teachers and the crap that Ryan Murphy has Will do totally destroys any respect or love I would have for the character. But then he does things that make him seem like a GOOD teacher and a GOOD guy, and so basically any time the show steps near his love life I just ignore it, because it undermines every other aspect of his character.

also not everyone can sing! Lovie and Mulan are both completely tone-deaf, and lots of people only sing a little bit. There really aren't so many of us who are music nuts. :-)

also we can agree about the amazingness of John Stamos all day long. :-D

But what's really sad is I want to be able to sing sooooo badly! I would love to be able to sing mostest. And it hurts me that I can't, truly. I could cry. Sometimes when I'm all alone and no one else can hear and no music is on to mess me up I can carry a tune if I try very hard but most times I just sound baaaad. And I hear that I sound bad. That's how bad I sound. But I can't fix it. Grrrrr.

I don't think about Glee being a show about high school at all, I guess. Too disturbing! I'm just in it for the entertainment. I try not to think, you see.

John Stamos is yummy. I always just thought of him as a so-so actor who wanted his own band. Who knew he could actually sing?

*hugs*

AH YES many people have told me I would enjoy the show much more if I didn't think. I should work on that. (Silly English degree. :-b)

I KNOW RIGHT. he is so delicious.

*pats*

My supervisor said she would like it more if they wouldn't just up and start singing and dancing in the middle of everything: that was just "stupid". Um. Okay?

Honestly, there's a group of you guys who intimidate the heck out of me! You're soooo deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! It reminds me of how I feel when I go down to Washington and hang with my oldest brother and his friends. You see, he and his wife and their friends are Yalies (a lot of them, anyway), doctors, lawyers, opera-goers, college literature professors, etc. I went to Penn State School of Agriculture! Thank you! I are not cultured! (well, I sorta are, but I'm not comfortably cultured, exactly) And my mom and dad despaired of my education, calling it basically a "trade school", and wished I had gotten a liberal arts degree, instead of a degree in Animal BioScience. And now, when I "hear" you guys discuss literature and such, I get what they were about. I get it Mom and Dad! Now ask me about multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumanii/haemolyticus or Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. I can tell you a little bit about them. But nothing much useful for your daily life.

Oh, sweetie. Don't think for a second that an English degree* is ANY more useful for daily life than knowing science and about drug resistant... bacteria?

*which is what I have.

Edited 2010-11-03 22:12 (UTC)

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