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rm1. Jesus Christ, Darren Criss has eyelashes forever.
2. What an appropriately sad gay bar.
3. Too much packed into that episode, and there were connecting moments that I felt needed to be there and weren't.
4. I'm going to state something wildly unpopular: Blaine is attracted to Sebastian. He's tall and lean and he's sexually aggressive, and Blaine likes it. Blaine wants to be pursued and not in that polite ay that Kurt did when they were just friends. And he's never had this experience before, but it's one he's fantasized about. He's not an asshole, and he's not going to betray his boyfriend, but he is flustered and interested and trying not to look naive and boring in the face of Paris.
5. So Brittany's first time... that was awkward. We needed one more line or it needed not to be there, because the people I was watching with asked, "wait, did Brittany get raped?" Which, you know, is valid in that that's a way first times go too, but throwaway line is ambiguous in a bad way about a character we don't want to remove sexual agency from. (Clarification: I don't think a history of rape removes someone's sexual agency, I think fandom interpretation of drive-by unclear data about Brittany is just likely to be a bad mess around that particular topic).
6. All this stuff about what it means to be a man, and Kurt and Blaine largely exempted from it -- but that felt positive and opposed to marginalizing -- it was one type of pain they weren't in.
7. Holy fuck, Chris Colfer can act. Every moment was PERFECTION.
8. Rachel Berry, you are testing my sympathy. Also, she and Finn are so alone together. It just doesn't work. TOxic.
9. I bet a voice over from Artie wasn't how you were expecting it to open.
10. Okay, NO ONE has sex in this episode. What I assume we get is both couples thinking about the lead up to it (appropriate to the song) while performing in the school show the next night. I am fine with no one having actually had sex in the episode, but I want to put this out there as people try to divine what type of sex was had based on the cute little cuddly scenes at the end. Yeah, no. They hadn't had sex yet. Also, hey, more marriage symbolism, and er, I like it, because it's all spiritual marriage and not "let's run off to together." -- ETA: This may be wrong. Tumblr found condom wrappers in the shot, I was convinced they were unopened, but a friend is looking at the image in HD and swears they are, so this may need to be revised. (And, ridiculously, it matters that I figure it out if I want to write about gendered expectations, the heterosexual audience, and Blaine's issues, so here we are).
11. THANK GOD THEY CUT THAT SCENE WHERE FINN ASKS FOR SEX ADVICE FROM SCHUE, HOLY CRAP.
12. Naya Rivera, could you be more beautiful?
13. "Uptown Girl" - weird, creepy, menacing thanks to the fantasy French teacher and EVERYTHING I didn't know I wanted. Er, I have weird feelings about Dalton.
14. Finn's freak out -- narratively important, did it need to happen a second and a half before he and Rachel get it on? Because wow, uncomfortable.
15. Blaine Anderson, I don't even have words... just EVERYTHING. (P.S., I still think something is not right with that boy, I just don't know what the hell it is. I used to hate all the theories about his sketchy relationship with alcohol, because he's 16, but now I have to admit to entertaining them. I also think my sexual abuse theory still holds, but certainly isn't going to be a plot point -- the alcohol may be).
16. Interesting to see Kurt's feminine clothing finally show up again this season.
17. I love how Kurt is hesitant and then just steels himself and goes for it over and over. Been there, Kurt. I get you. You rock.
18. Bieste -- needs more time or less. Is she part of a gender/sexuality spectrum for the girls like the one were getting for the gay guys? Or is it just a muddled mess?
19. Kurt, you are adorable in your cop uniform. Ahaahahaah, the baton when you're watching Blaine at the end.
20. Hey, Mike Chang, apparently your dad is the fanon Mr. Anderson. Good on Glee for not dropping that plot.
21. Tina is awesomesauce. Too bad she had that DREADFUL infodump.
22. Quinn -- please do something with her.
23. WHERE ARE BLAINE'S PARENTS? DID THEY NOT EVEN COME TO THE PLAY? WHAT IS GOING ON?
24. I think Burt Hummel is going to win this election.
25. Roxy Music? Really?
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Date: 2011-11-09 04:51 am (UTC)#10 - thank you so much for saying this. I was thinking this same thing but I thought I was maybe the only one. I found it impossible to believe that Kurt and Blaine had gone from "not granting our hands visas to travel south of the equator" to full on (assumed?) penetrative sex. Maybe something a little more, sure - but the other is such a jump, I can't really see Kurt taking it that far in just a few days. I also thought it was interesting he was wearing so much safari camouflage in that scene, although I don't yet have any idea what it could have meant.
I also find your thoughts on Blaine really interesting. I want to think some more about what you said, so I'll probably come back to this post later, but I agree that something is a little off-kilter there, and he was DEFINITELY attracted to Sebastian. If that guy is sticking around, there is drama yet to be played out. It makes me think about the post on your page a long time ago about how Blaine takes on the more "passive" role in their courtship (like saying "I've never been anyone's boyfriend before") and how Sebastian is that "I come after what I want" type that probably does really appeal to him, in contrast to Kurt's soft and patient, yet determined, way.
You're awesome as usual!
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