Glee 3.08 thoughts
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rmThat was an extraordinarily strange episode:
1. Blaine backstory!
2. No, seriously, that "I'm not for sale" moment was weird, especially when there's no reason to be even think he knows about Sam's career. Yet again, I'm back at "Blaine has some sort of sexual abuse/trauma in his past."
3. Wow, stripper trope got a lot in, in half a second, and it was smart until it was FAIL and I'm going to have to untangle all the weird around Sam's "innocence" and Quinn's "white girl problems" and more discussion of what it means to be a man or an adult or... what?
4. In fact, the amount of content in this episode about sex, predatoriness around sexuality and consent was weirdly high: Sam, Blaine's reaction to "selling onenself", the Puck/Shelby mess, Tickles the Clown, Sebastian's increasingly awful behavior.
5. When we first met Sebastian in 3.05, I still feel Blaine felt a spark. Now he is seriously over it. So where is this going to go, because he's clearly not going away? Stalker maybe?
6. In what universe is Sam the missing star power from New Directions? Although he was pretty great this episode.
7. "Red Solo Cup" may be the weirdest thing to ever happen on Glee.
8. I know the "fight club" thing was a joke, but I'm picturing Wes and Thad scuffling over the gavel now.
9. Blaine and the boxing.
10. Blaine and the desperate need for approval.
11. Kurt at the end and how he gravitates to Sugar and Artie. Like his ongoing friendship with Brittany, and his fascination with what's outside the window, Kurt's internal sense of his otherness I think comes from something not related to his sexuality.
12. GERBER BABY.
13. The Troubletones were AWESOME.
14. I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan, so I'm a bit luke warm on ND in this one.
15. DEAR SWEET LORD, "We Are Young" rocks.
16. Cried over Mike, Tina and his dad.
17. CHRISTMAS EPISODE LOOKS CRACKTACULARLY BRILLIANT AND I THINK WILL PLAY WITH AWESOME TROPES ABOUT KURT/BLAINE, PERFORMATIVITY AND HETEROSEXUALITY AND IT'S GOING TO ROCK MY TINY LITTLE WORLD.
18. Possibly the weirdest overall episode of Glee EVER.
19. I am deeply resistant not just to the idea of high school as our glory days, but to the idea of glory days at all, like there's a moment where our lives can never be as good as they once were. Even if this is arguably true, it's not a space I ever wish to live in. But I suppose for a bunch of kids in Lima is makes sense.
20. Quinn remains the greatest waste on this show. She could be the most interesting character, but both her pain and her decency are constantly, CONSTANTLY glossed over in ways that make me so goddamn aggravated I just don't know what to do.
21. I still think Kurt is going to get into NYADA.
22. Shawl collars/Blaine = OTP
1. Blaine backstory!
2. No, seriously, that "I'm not for sale" moment was weird, especially when there's no reason to be even think he knows about Sam's career. Yet again, I'm back at "Blaine has some sort of sexual abuse/trauma in his past."
3. Wow, stripper trope got a lot in, in half a second, and it was smart until it was FAIL and I'm going to have to untangle all the weird around Sam's "innocence" and Quinn's "white girl problems" and more discussion of what it means to be a man or an adult or... what?
4. In fact, the amount of content in this episode about sex, predatoriness around sexuality and consent was weirdly high: Sam, Blaine's reaction to "selling onenself", the Puck/Shelby mess, Tickles the Clown, Sebastian's increasingly awful behavior.
5. When we first met Sebastian in 3.05, I still feel Blaine felt a spark. Now he is seriously over it. So where is this going to go, because he's clearly not going away? Stalker maybe?
6. In what universe is Sam the missing star power from New Directions? Although he was pretty great this episode.
7. "Red Solo Cup" may be the weirdest thing to ever happen on Glee.
8. I know the "fight club" thing was a joke, but I'm picturing Wes and Thad scuffling over the gavel now.
9. Blaine and the boxing.
10. Blaine and the desperate need for approval.
11. Kurt at the end and how he gravitates to Sugar and Artie. Like his ongoing friendship with Brittany, and his fascination with what's outside the window, Kurt's internal sense of his otherness I think comes from something not related to his sexuality.
12. GERBER BABY.
13. The Troubletones were AWESOME.
14. I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan, so I'm a bit luke warm on ND in this one.
15. DEAR SWEET LORD, "We Are Young" rocks.
16. Cried over Mike, Tina and his dad.
17. CHRISTMAS EPISODE LOOKS CRACKTACULARLY BRILLIANT AND I THINK WILL PLAY WITH AWESOME TROPES ABOUT KURT/BLAINE, PERFORMATIVITY AND HETEROSEXUALITY AND IT'S GOING TO ROCK MY TINY LITTLE WORLD.
18. Possibly the weirdest overall episode of Glee EVER.
19. I am deeply resistant not just to the idea of high school as our glory days, but to the idea of glory days at all, like there's a moment where our lives can never be as good as they once were. Even if this is arguably true, it's not a space I ever wish to live in. But I suppose for a bunch of kids in Lima is makes sense.
20. Quinn remains the greatest waste on this show. She could be the most interesting character, but both her pain and her decency are constantly, CONSTANTLY glossed over in ways that make me so goddamn aggravated I just don't know what to do.
21. I still think Kurt is going to get into NYADA.
22. Shawl collars/Blaine = OTP
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Date: 2011-12-07 05:39 am (UTC)11. Your observation about Kurt being back on the periphery is really interesting - I don't have much to say right now, because your insights always blow mine out of the water. But I think Kurt's tendency to gravitate outside the group is why I identify with him more than any other character on Glee; it's what I do as well - I was always looking out the window (well, still am).
5./9./10. As for Sebastian, I'm wondering if somehow Blaine's anger issues are going to come to some kind of head with him. I'm wondering what Blaine would have done if he'd overheard his conversation with Kurt, for example. How would have reacted to Sebastian insulting Kurt that way? Also thinking back to how Blaine reacted to Karofsky's insults and aggressive behavior with his own. I agree too about Blaine's need for approval, but I rewatched that boxing scene and while he agrees to work with Finn (and they seem to be making nice at Sectionals) - first he drops his fist, then there's something in his eyes and his smile at the end that makes me think this isn't over quite yet. Even if he has a crazy need for approval, Finn's treatment has obviously settled deep (at least to me).
8. So want to see "Fight Club II: Battle for the Gavel"!
14. What I loved most about the ND numbers was how I could see influences from all the dancers (Mike, Blaine, Sam), even the return of "sexy"!Kurt . . I found the choreography really visually interesting, and it wasn't the first time I'm sad that Kevin McHale can't dance with the rest of them.
16. Me too.
What the hell was Kurt wearing in that last song? Leather shorts?