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: 2011-12-08 04:59 am (UTC)On top of that, the majority of times, their soloists have also been the same for each number in a set*. Invitationals S1: April Rhodes, Rachel (subbing for April) and Finn. Sectionals S1: Rachel, Rachel and Finn, and as we know they did 'Somebody To Love' as well we have to add a third Rachel and Finn to that list too. Maybe count Mercedes' glory notes as a third soloist if I'm generous. Regionals S1: Rachel, Rachel and Finn. Sectionals S2: Quinn and Sam, Santana - a rare variation, but Will thought it would get him into Emma's undies, so whatever. Regionals S2: Rachel, Rachel and Finn on the most prominent verses with others joining in. Nationals S2: Rachel and Finn; group number with Rachel and Finn again on the highlight points.
A truly equitable sharing of roles across all three numbers in a New Directions competition set has never really been shown before 3.08, only gestured to.
*That's the situation the Troubletones were stuck having to replicate this time out, because unlike New Directions they actually didn't have more than two really strong vocalists.