this week's Glee

[jade_sabre]

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.

Comments

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

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.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

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.