Glee 3.11

[rm]

Since tumblr is way ass broken



So that was cracktacular Glee, which I like best, The weirder the show is, the better it works.

It was also a VERY well-structured episode, and as much as I hated to miss the Kurt & co showdown at Dalton with "I Want Your Back" I think the cut made the episode tighter.

Kurt getting his NYADA letter was amazing.

I believed every moment of Kurt's worry and misery over Blaine and that felt a little raw and personal and close to home for me, and I loved it.

Say what you will about Darren Criss, but he brought it on "Wanna Be Startin' Something'"

"Smooth Criminal," even with Santana fronting afterwards was still terrifying.

Quinn's Yale plotline is ridiculous, but good for her. There's one story closed. Her speech to Rachel was great.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE BELIEVE ME NOW THAT RACHEL AND FINN ARE A TRAGEDY?

Blaine is a ridiculous human being and I have no idea how anyone, much less DC, of all people, can play anyone that earnest. But I guess I bought it or I wouldn't have been hiding behind my hands laughing so hard.

TRENT WARBLER, YOU ARE THE BEST.

Artie going off on Schue. Yes please. And Kurt being all, "I agree with you but please stop, please, please stop talking about us, just let me worry."

I am pathetic predictable creature of the Internet, but give me all the fic ever about Blaine worrying about his surgery or Kurt worrying about Blaine while he's in surgery.

WHere was Tina after, like, the first scene?

"Ben" is a terrible song. Colfer sounds beautiful on it. Leah Michele got the creepy verse, and really, Finn, how about you not talking about Blaine getting shunned as if that's normal? God, so awkward. I really feel for someone like Blaine, because I think he wonders why he gets bullied so hard so often, he sees why someone like Kurt gets it, but he tries so hard to fit in and.... don't reinforce his sense of just being "wrong," please.

Kurt and the modesty-focused clothes again!

So next week's episode looks totally terrible, right?

Comments

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's what happened -- the Gleeks have crashed Tumblr. Not that I blame them.

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

Other than Ricky Martin playing...well..Ricky Martin, we agree that next week is filler.

Loved the final song. DW and I were guessing which song would be used for that. Man in the mirror would have worked as a song, but the CreepWarbler would not have 'gotten' it.

The look on Rachels face at the very end is perfect. And reinforces the tragedy that in Finn and Rachel.

[kshandra]

NGL, I'm thinking the crack factor of Ricky Martin covering "Sexy And I Know It" is going to be more than worth the price of admission.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

I actually watched Glee tonight, mostly because it was Michael..... and NCIS was a repeat. But it was fun!

[kshandra]

mostly because it was Michael

That's the only reason I tuned in. I had a violent reaction to my first exposure to Sue Sylvester, and I actually went out of my way NOT to watch the show at first. The RHPS episode didn't even drag me in, but this one finally did...and my, that's some tasty Kool-Aid.

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

Kurt and the modesty-focused clothes again!

And was it just me, but was Kurt dressed like Blaine when he and Santana have that chat in the empty classroom?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think he goes through a series of "comfort outfits." THat one seemed half-borrowed form Blaine, and the the outfit he wears for the last song is the one in the ring box scene we never saw.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE BELIEVE ME NOW THAT RACHEL AND FINN ARE A TRAGEDY?

100% believed. A tragedy and an object lesson in don't do this, this is even stupider than the Montgue boy and the Capulet girl were.

Kurt getting his NYADA letter was amazing.

I am just so glad he got it. And that Burt came and brought it to him and there were hugs (I have missed them hugging). Want this episode so badly now.

TRENT WARBLER, YOU ARE THE BEST.

This must become official. Things have evidently gone downhill at Dalton since Wes left...

Artie going off on Schue. Yes please. And Kurt being all, "I agree with you but please stop, please, please stop talking about us, just let me worry."

I am loving Artie this season.

[kshandra]

So, is the lip synching always as hit-or-miss as it seemed tonight? 'cause that's gonna get old.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It depends on the actor. Darren Criss is TERRIBLE at it. The others are okay at least sometimes.

[heyerchick.livejournal.com]

The lip synching is not good. Fortunately, the actors quite often sing along while their numbers are being filmed, which helps a lot.

[beth rakel (from livejournal.com)]

so much agreed about the cutting of IWYB. The warblers did a great rendition but it made the episode tighter and likely allowed SCREAM to happen which...yes please!

Artie is seriously battling Jim Cantello for the title of King Klainer this year. He just is. I'm also going to need all the Blartie epic friendship fics where they both beleive they are strong black women and fight over who's going to sing the Diana Ross part in a song.

While I agree Finn and Rachel are TERRIBLE and this decision is so so so misguided and based on the wrong things...GOD I knew so many girls like that in high school. I think a third of my senior class was in an engagement just like this by the time graduation rolled around. It's a total disaster but I see sooo sooo clearly where it's coming from and its me so close to home. (Seriously my senior class religion teacher used to give almost daily versions of Quinn's speech when she heard about a student being engaged.) I'm choosing to beleive that Finn and Rachel's engagement will last about as long as the majority of the ones in my high school did....good only till about midsummer. (Only 1 actually married the guy. they already had a baby senior year and i'm told they are still married)

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

Finn and Rachel are a trainwreck in slow motion.

And I should feel worse than I do that I was rooting for her NOT to get in to NYADA.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, you're not alone (to borrow a phrase). Though there's still the question of how she'll actually do in the audition...

I really want her to have a parallel scene to Finn in which she is judged on her merits by someone outside and unaware of the McKinley/New Directions scheme of things and found wanting, and has to adjust to that. The auditions would be perfect for that to happen.

[dizzieblonde.livejournal.com]

It's a trainwreck that was coming since last summer, when the pair of them put a timeframe on their relationship that was mature and realistic - they said until graduation. Then at some point this year, both of them had crises of confidence about their future and started clinging wildly to each other, making more and more desperate gestures of commitment - Rachel's virginity, the engagement, Finn's promise to follow her to NY (or, in the subtext, wherever she goes). The fact that they're making less mature decisions than a year ago, and we see the paths that people like Quinn and Kurt (and Santana briefly mentioning her future) are going down, and it's obvious that Finn and Rachel need a huge kick in the arse to make them realise how crazy and immature they're being. The thing is, unless the writers radically alter what they are forming as the basis for season 4, Finchel will still be held up as the gold standard for high school couples who, somehow in all their dysfunction and mess, continue to be together for all the wrong reasons after graduation. Do NOT want!

Kurt's entire NYADA letter scene with Burt was completely fantastic. It had shades of all of their previous talks, right back to when Kurt came out. Lovely, lovely moment of Burt forgetting his kid's 18, and picking him up and swinging him round like he was a little boy. Burt's little mention of 'can I tell Blaine the news' was just adorable. Blaine's essentially Son Number 3 now, isn't he? I suspect Burt's counting on Blaine coming over to see him and Carol after Kurt and Finn move out to help him deal with losing two sons at once to the world of college. He can still be a dad to the one still in high school. It speaks so much of the developed relationship between Burt and his son's boyfriend. Burt knows the answer immediately when Kurt asks him how Blaine's doing, he's just as involved in Blaine's life as Kurt is.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

Burt wanting to be the one to tell Blaine just about cracked my heart in half. Blaine is officially a Hummel!

[heyerchick.livejournal.com]

When Kurt said he was a finalist, my 73-year old Mum hollered "Top o' the world!" Then we had to rewind so she could enjoy Burt lifting Kurt off his feet and swooping him around again.

I remembered my own Dad, and how proud he was when I got into university, the first person in our entire family, on both parental sides, to do so. Like the hospital scenes and Kurt's pain in Grilled Cheesus, I am never not going to cry at Kurt and Burt's reactions to Kurt being a finalist.

The narrative stakes for the character are so high now it's likely I'll never forgive Glee if they don't allow Kurt to be his awesome self, to go in full-tilt in all his power and emotional complexity and *kill* that audition. I don't know what possible alternative scenario could equal, let alone exceed NYADA for Kurt and Rachel. I do not want Kurt to fail.

[dr4b]

Whoa, I totally didn't even notice Tina being gone but you're right. I liked that Artie finally got another dancing scene, at least.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Tina was in scenes up to the 'Bad' sequence at least - the group scenes that Blaine was in. Jenna Ushkowitz may have been out sick or something for the later part of filming for that episode.

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that Artie's dream of himself dancing included Mike Chang singing, the two of them doing the things that they (supposedly) can't do.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

If I were more thoroughly invested in Glee rather than just fascinated by your commentary, and thus willing to put in the time to nail the voices, I would TOTALLY write the surgery-worrying -- antsy waiting-room worry appears to be a specialty of mine, and has showed up across more than one fandom. I know where it's coming from and I have enough distance now to put it in fic, at least. My propensity to write death-fixes tends to bring it in as a matter of course.

I hope someone DOES write it for you. Believe me, I get the appeal.

[heddychaa.livejournal.com]

Was Rachel wearing her engagement ring after she got her letter saying she was a finalist?

[melusine2001.livejournal.com]

I have a whole chaotic essay in my head about how much Glee represent american stereotypes and society from a not-american eye. Could you lend me your wonderful quill and way with word for it ? ;p