Glee 3.06

[rm]

1. I don't think I realized all of that was happening this episode. God, I am so glad Santana is getting this plot, that it's not just about Brittany and that we're skewering American politicas in the process.

2. Foreshadowing about NYADA -- Kurt and Rachel aren't going together. I think Rachel's not going to get in, and/or Kurt will get in, but defer or not go. The certainty everyone has about Rachel getting in is the giveaway she won't.

3. Finn, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. His passive-aggressive shit with Blaine is AWFUL (and Blaine can go toe to toe with him on that while happening to be in the right). His thing with Santana -- I get it, I get that he wasn't thinking and was impatient, but NOT COOL. There were grounds for Kurt to out Karofsky and he didn't. There were NO grounds for Finn to do that.

4. Blaine and Kurt protecting Rory. Here, the gay boys being friendly and protective of the straight boy, all of them violating the guy rules that Finn laid out for Rory, and yet, geez, it's non-toxic, will you look at that?

5. Kurt's equestrian outfit. Bet Blaine was carrying his school bag in front of him all day.

6. Okay, that leather turban thing? WHAT THE FUCK? Can anyone parse that horror?

7. Did Kurt and Blaine swap outfit pieces (newsboy cap, waistcoast, and possibly shirt) halfway through the episode? Hahahahahahaha.

8. Rachel, doing right and making it all about herself.

9. My conviction Kurt will get into NYADA came when he took the mic off the stand and started walking around with it, no matter how awkward that speech was.

10. Klaine holding hands in the choir room.

11. Quinn, vicious and terrifying again. But will it go anywhere.

12. The campaign ads were hilarious!

13. Burt better win.

14. That Adele mashup was so fucking incredible. And I'm glad Santana slapped Finn.

15. Kurt's body language with Rachel during hug and after. Maybe this is just me, but he seemed less physically comfortable with her than usual. Kurt's weird about physicality in lots of ways, always has been. But head-canon tells me he can't stand to touch anyone but Blaine right now and that's not about desire, but desire remembered.

16. Blaine and those shorts. More with the random feminine positioning of him in relation to others.

17. This episode was more on the surface than many have been lately, and that's not bad. Digging for what makes sense or is interesting on this show, while always fun, can also be pretty exhausting and should be an OPTION for how we watch TV, not a requirement for any cogency.

18. Puck. Shelby. Yes, but whatever.

19. I think half this episode had to be inexplicable and probably not funny to anyone under 30 ("Hot for Teacher" and the Hall & Oats thing, which was, frankly, terrible).

20. FENCING WITH THE FUCKING MIC STANDS.

Comments

[melebeth]

Interestingly, in the Finn/Santana scene I was really relieved that he didn't say something much worse. Yes, he went for the sexuality button, but he didn't insult her for being gay - he insulted her for being a coward about it. Which turned out to be just as horrible for the character in the end, but.... There is a difference, and while I don't like him for outing her, the way he did it was much less awful than it might have been. Also? While I have enormous sympathy for Santana being outed when she isn't ready, and think the actress is amazing, it must be acknowledged that she was being cruel to him, actively cruel, when he was trying to be nice, and she basically challenged him to find a way to hurt her. Is it an excuse? No. Is outing someone worse than calling them fat, talentless, and stupid? Yes, but.... It's not quite as simple "as asshole cis gendered straight guy is cruel to the lesbian because she is gay." I don't particularly like Finn either, but I also don't give Santana a blanket pass for her years of cruelty to others just because she is gay and now suffering for it. It sucks, but as useless as Finn is, I think he's getting a bit too little credit here.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Santana's an asshole, and I don't think Finn was trying to hurt her with being gay and the sentiments weren't wrong, but canon tells us that he's just put her in physical danger in the world of WMHS and he can't even begin to fathom that.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

And then there's the fact that we apparently have Blaine modelling 'This is how you respond to someone being an areshole while retaining your dignity and the high moral ground' positively in the same episode...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Blaine's fucking smirk though. I mean, he's lovely, but he's so enjoying sticking it to Finn, gracious though he may be.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Hee. I am looking forward to seeing it.

[melebeth]

Oh I completely agree. I just thought it was worth explicitly bringing in some context in the face of earlier comments. (I can't believe I'm defending Finn in any way. He's so... UGH.)

[springbay.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad someone else remembered Santana's "years of cruelty". She has been awful to just about everyone and in small doses it played as funny in past episodes. I absolutely don't condone anyone being outed and I may be in the minority here but I didn't see what Finn did as being thought out and intentional on his part. Earlier in the episode when he and Rory tried to insult Santana she just laughed at them - and insulted them some more. In the second confrontation, she was so awful and cruel (I actually wondered when she was going to stop) I got the feeling he just lashed out with the first thing that came to mind.

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. I can't help but think Santana was also repeatedly poking at a wasp's nest with a stick. She was warned repeatedly to back off from not just Finn but from Mercedes, Shelby, even Brittany, and she didn't. The outing is terrible and Finn definitely is at fault for creating what will be a hard situation for Santana, but her own behavior is also to blame here.