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 06:35 am (UTC)The one in which Finn still needs his mini-mes around to shore up his status and sense of self. Sam was always Finn 2.0. If he can't be the star power himself, he needs his other self there to do it for him so he can still feel like the one in the lead.
Blaine's too far outside the paradigm, and too threatening, for Finn to accept him in that role. I'd say Kurt needs to kick his stepbrother's arse until sense gets into his head, but it's been apparent for two and a third seasons now that Finn doesn't pay a damn' bit of attention to anythning Kurt says; he's just a thing to be placated until he becomes untroubling.