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some_stars) wrote2011-02-09 06:56 pm
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fuck, I so can't deal with first-run TV. I'm trying to watch yesterday's Glee episode and even though I've been moderately spoiled, I am still suffering actual unpleasant physical anxiety symptoms just from watching things happen when I don't know exactly what they will be and how they will end. WHY AM I SO DAMAGED :( this never happens when I'm marathon-catching-up with a show, and ALWAYS happens when I start watching episodes as they air. it's like every single second could be the one where something goes horribly, catastrophically wrong. or it could be, in retrospect, the moment when things went horribly wrong but I won't know until the episode ends. Seriously you guys, this is both pathetic and AWFUL.
ugh, fuck this shit, liveblogging for MY OWN SANITY. such as it is.
having watched 3.5 minutes so far: PUCK/LAUREN YES FUCKING YES. The only way I made myself finally open this file and watch was after a full day of repeating to myself that all I expected was 1.) Puck/Lauren and 2.) a bunch of static and dead air that would still somehow manage to be offensive. I am trying my hardest to hope for nothing. EXCEPT PUCK/LAUREN, WHICH I SEEM TO BE RECEIVING. It's not 100% absolute perfection--I wish he could just be attracted to her without the "...but she's FAT" nod toward the audience--but SHE is absolutely perfect so far, and that's what matters. So like, so far after that one minute: 94% perfection. This is Glee, so that's basically a fucking miracle.
I have expressed my feelings about Finn/Quinn and why I HATE IT, and this is just...more reasons. One thing I loved about Finn last week--and there were several things I didn't, but--I loved how he and Quinn seemed to finally be building a friendship, and it seemed to be making both of them into better people. Then it turned out to be a romance, and look, it's making Finn into a fucking horrible douchebag again. Funny how I absolutely knew that would happen.
And, you know, it's pretty tough for me to feel bad for Sam, since twelve episodes in he still hasn't gotten a consistent or (outside of a couple episodes) interesting personality, but this will probably do it. Maybe that's their plan, to have Finn and Quinn be total dickfaces to him until I'm FORCED to like him, no matter how badly he's written.
I know how the Kurt/Blaine plot is going to go--I was spoiled half voluntarily, half accidentally--and I already know I'm going to be annoyed by the way it ends, and the way it plays out is going to stomp my embarrassment squick harder than almost anything ever. But I am in favor of character development for Blaine, and--if we could just get ONE. FUCKING. SIGN that Blaine has any kind of romantic feelings for Kurt, ANY at all, he doesn't have to be 100% aware of them or act on them or anything, but that's what annoys me about the ~slow burn~ shit. M/F couples on Glee do not get treated that way. They just don't. Sure, they may not get together right away--Finn and Rachel didn't really get together until the very end of season one--but they MADE OUT in episode TWO. Only Kurt pines after people with genuinely zero reciprocation, and if I can't have him being pursued and fought for, then I fucking well want him at least to be WANTED. Because it's pretty goddamn horrible any other way. I'm just so tired of him never, ever getting to feel like anyone wants him. Ever. I still believe they're endgame at least for this season--if I really thought they'd make Kurt go through all this and ultimately be rejected for good, I would quit the show right now--but, you know, watching this kind of plotline, it's not without context, it's not one among a thousand that all go differently. It's standing pretty much alone, and it hurts to watch.
THAT SAID, the beginning of this scene is painfully cute and I'm not, like, all angry at Blaine for ~leading Kurt on~, it's a pretty classic romcom plot. (I think the fans getting crazy pissed off at Blaine are intensely creepy, tbh.) And Chris Colfer playing 'infatuated in spite of himself' is, of course, a beautiful treasure.
so that was the past 3.5 minutes. Now to force myself to hit play again.
dsha;pkghk BRITTANY I CANNOT EVEN, OMG. "Totally gonna graduate now!"
also, I was 100% confused on Sunday, THIS is the episode with the supposed Brittana. Not getting my hopes up too high, but. (SPEAKING of Ryan Murphy offering queer representation and fucking it up. Although he fucked up Brittana a thousand times worse, of course, but still.)
FINN, STOP BEING A DAMN DOUCHE. ugh, I can't watch this. --however, everyone's reactions are pretty awesome. "I've kissed Finn, and can I just say--not worth a buck."
Also, hey, wtf, character continuity! More or less! From Glee! WHAT IN GOD'S NAME.
"You're addicted to vests." I am so with you there, Santana. SO with you. And Quinn, the lizard baby line was 100% fair and balanced in context. You came off as more of a terrible unpleasant person in that episode than you have basically EVER, so shut up and take your quips.
...Rachel, you have got to quit this thing of being my one true love in one episode and then a HORRIBLE AWFUL PERSON in the next one. Calling Santana a whore? Seriously? How amazingly fucking progressive.
EEEEEEEEEEE BRITTANA. Well, Brittany comforting Santana and petting her hair. I'll take it.
I just found Puck genuinely, convincingly adorable (and more importantly, genuine and convincing at all) for the first time in at LEAST nine episodes, I think way longer. Either this material or Ashley Fink is turning Mark Salling into something vaguely resembling an actor!
KURT, WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING GODDAMN ADORABLE I CAN'T DEAL WITH IIIIIIIIT. oh shit, he is going to be SO heartbroken. Or possibly so pissed off. I hope the latter. Oh god, Blaine is all TOUCHING on him, oh KURT.
Okay, so their approach to humanizing Blaine is to make him a total DOOFUS? I...can get on board with this. --also, I'm following along with a community reaction post from last night as I watch bit by bit, and FANDOM IS SO FUCKING BATSHIT. Blaine is not LEADING HIM ON, y'all. Kurt wasn't even being obvious in the coffee scene, for fuck's sake, we all just stare really intensely at his eyes 24/7 so we notice when, like, his lip twitches. And Blaine has no REASON to think Kurt feels anything like that for him, and he's wrapped up in his total doofus/hopeless romantic V-day ruminations. AND HE'S A KID. I've missed plenty of flirting that was in retrospect way more blatant, when I was years older than him. So basically, fandom, CURB yourself, jesus christ.
Oh my GOD, Blaine says something ~shocking~ and all the Warblers start muttering in surprise and we cut to the room in a (mild) uproar, everyone chattering, AND THEN CUT TO PAVAROTTI FLUTTERING AROUND LOOKING DISTRESSED. Best directing choice EVER MADE.
I don't know whether to laugh hysterically at this or facepalm myself to death. So we're gonna take the "broad comedy, no, broader, NO. BROADER." route with the Warblers, then? Not that Telly Leung didn't deliver the SHIT out of that line about the plane crash, I admit. p.s. you guys please give him a solo soon, like at least a line, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
YOU MOCK US, SIR. what do I even do with this shit, seriously, WHAT.
I really, really like this moment for Kurt. Because I think, yeah, what pushes him to start saying this is that he thinks Blaine's going to sing to HIM and also he wants to defend Blaine because of his looove, but almost immediately it becomes his actual opinion, about something that's important to him, phrased in a respectful and thoughtful but honest way. (And also: "I had a cat thrown at me in a nursing home once" = automatically my favorite speech of all time.)
SLEEPOVER SCENE SLEEPOVER SCENE. I forgot this was going to happen! And oh, oh, OH KURT YOU SWEET BEAUTIFUL SAD DARLING--"Oh my god, I made up the whole thing in my head, didn't I?" Like, first, that is beautifully delivered. Second, it's an astonishing moment of maturity and growth from season one, that it only takes him like five seconds of self-delusion before he gives up. Third, it is SO GODDAMN HEARTBREAKING, and it just--hurts, a LOT, to think about what he's going to take away from this experience. Reading signals is always hard, but when you go half your adolescence (or longer) in a situation where you never even start learning how, because you're closeted or you're justifiably afraid for your safety or you've been repeatedly humiliated for daring to respond in the past or you're just being told, all the time, by absolutely everyone and everything around you, that no one wants you and no one ever will--it fucks you up, a lot worse than people think who haven't been through it.
On the one hand, someone telling Kurt the value of being single and that he "needs to fly solo for a while" is kind of enraging, because all that shit sounds a lot less insightful when you don't have a choice about it and never have. On the other hand, it's coming from Mercedes, who's somehow gotten shafted even harder than Kurt in the romance department(still planning on that post-S2 vid about Glee's FUCKING UNBEARABLE RACISM, btw), so I can actually hear it from her and not feel like she's being a horrible person by saying it, because she's never gotten a choice either. So, okay. And the scene-ending snuggle was so wonderful, omg, I want a gif of it that I may loop unblinkingly for hours.
--wait, this just occurred to me. Blaine's crush is on a junior manager at the Gap? How old is this guy? I really hope he shows zero interest, not just because I want Kurt's pain to end, but because Blaine is 16/17 and that would be SUPER CREEPY.
Oh, and I really appreciate Amber's delivery of those lines. The subtle transition from her voice on "I don't give a rip" to her voice towards the end of her speech is so affecting. GLEE WHY WON'T YOU LET AMBER ACT MORE >:(
opith4qothgf;daklghreigh is...is Puck leading singing Fat Bottomed Girls? While gazing at Lauren? oh my GOD, was he DROPPED on his HEAD? --although, I mean, it is deeply in character. And there's precedent! (hardcore flashing back to LAST WEEK I JOINED A BLACK CHURCH right now.) But STILL. Anyway I am very pleased we get more of him singing, that's two episodes in a row! And I am helpless not to find him super hot while he's doing it, because he is so embarrassingly my type. I mean, I have a lot of types, but he's pretty much the definition of one of them.
WHY do I find Finn ferociously punching the air in the background of this shot SO ADORABLE. I'm pissed at him right now, dammit! STOP BEING SO CUTE YOU ASSHOLE. However I am not conflicted at all about my enthusiastic affection for Santana in that camo jacket with her hair down. :9
Hmm. I'm not sure how to take this. On the one hand, I kind of hoped Lauren wouldn't have any lines, ever, about feeling bad about being fat. But it could easily be that she feels bad because Puck SEES her, first and foremost, as fat. And it would be kind of humiliating to be serenaded with YOU'RE SO FAT IT'S HOT in front of all the other girls, but I was secretly frantically hoping for a "shit yes I am and SHIT YES IT IS, bitches" reaction. And, augh, I just super dug that performance, it was so cute and hot and sounded great. And now it makes me sad. Gleeee, why are you like this.
This kissing booth scene is going to be absolutely unbearable, I can tell right now and it's only been on for a millisecond. --well, it was shorter than I thought, but I came out of wanting to punch Finn as badly as if it had lasted an hour. Also wanting to punch all the writers for doing this to Quinn, because god FORBID she ever get ANYTHING to do that isn't about, or inevitably leading towards, her FEELINGS FOR BOYS.
I'm not really pissed at Sam for saying all that shit to Quinn, because it obviously comes out of actual pain, and his face at the end of the scene also obviously shows that he's in over his head with all these Confusing Feelings. But that's still got to be pretty awful for her to hear from her BOYFRIEND. Even more so because he's clearly in love with her (or the clueless teenage version) as he says it, but he still thinks so little of her.
AND ALSO HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT RECORDS ARE, oh SAM. I don't even know what to do with his increasingly-occasional endearing moments.
Oh, RACHEL. I have never loved her more than with that outraged, too-pissed-to-be-hurt-yet, "What the hell? On the CHEEK?" And then comes the hurt, and it's so--she has no filters, at this point, and it's so believable and frantic and heartbreaking.
Finn, I have no goddamned idea what to do with this. I seriously can't tell how much of that was genuine, where the hell it came from, WHY HE HAD THAT WITH HIM, why he just did that, how he feels about Rachel now, what--what--ANY OF THAT, WHAT. I'm so incredibly confused.
....and now I think I'm high. ARTIE. MIKE. WHAT. I. WHAT. I mean, hey, Artie and Mike being friends! Mike talking! Mike dancing! I'm in favor! But what.
"THAT'S MY MAN AND HIS LEGS DON'T WORK!" okay so Brittany I'm going to crawl through this screen and marry you, I'm going to do it right now, just a heads-up
Seriously, I'm pretty sure I took something, WHAT JUST HAPPENED. Santana totally quietly broke my heart, and then--well, it looked like the logical conclusion of trying to start a hair-pulling slapfight with someone who weighs about 250 pounds and flings other 250-pound people over her head in her spare time, and then Coach Beiste picked up Santana in a fireman's carry? But surely it could not have been that. Also, Puck's reaction is like the best thing to happen this whole episode and I'm pretty sure it will remain so. PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME, JUST, PLEASE.
UGH, okay, so apart from Finn calling Sam a pervert, which I could not help but love(and which suggested some possible fanfic solutions to this whole issue that I would very much like to read), that was basically repulsive in all ways. This iteration of Finn/Quinn is going to be one of those pairings that turns both people involved into horrible, unlikable, despicable jackass versions of themselves, isn't it? I mean, it already is, but I'm sure it will become more so. And just as I expected, I feel more sympathy for and interest in Sam now than I have since Duets. Pity about the collateral damage of HATING QUINN AND FINN.
Whoa, I am enjoying the run-up to WIGYA a lot more than I expected to. Blaine is adorably idiotic and doofy(Darren's delivery on the "if we got married" line is a JEWEL for the AGES), Kurt is appropriately "...oh my god, I am so ashamed to be crushing on you right now" and then SWEET AND SUPPORTIVE, omg. If this has to happen, this is EXACTLY how it should be. Although I am going to skip most of the number itself, because auuuugggh.
HOSHIT DID GAP GUY JUST CALL SECURITY, PLEASE LET HIM BE CALLING SECURITY. Also, I knew about this song but I am still not over the fact that BLAINE CHOSE IT. he chose THIS SONG. to woo someone he barely knows, in public. Even aside from the blatantly-sexual-and-kind-of-inappropriate factor, it's just so--it's not remotely romantic. It's so STUPID. why do I love him even more now /o\
fuuuuck I keep meaning to skip forward but I am HYPNOTIZED by embarrassment squick. Also, Gap Guy is a lot less fugly in full-size HD. I was seriously repulsed by him in the youtube clip. ALSO, I am just so in love with the Warblers being completely supportive (after they get past the OFF CAMPUS OMG issue) and into the performance. They clearly don't care about either the gayness or the Blaine-being-SO-RIDICULOUSness. they just really love singing, you guys, okay
oh. my. god. GRAB SOCKS, EXECUTE FINALE SLIDE ON KNEES, PRESENT SOCKS AT CASH REGISTER. "Was it too much? .....yeah, it was too much." Blaine, you have never been so goddamn magical to me. And I love that Kurt by this point is openly scornful/kind of annoyed, but still sitting there being a supportive friend. A scornful, kind of annoyed, clearly reevaluating-his-crush friend, but there!
okay, that was like the best denouement I could ever have hoped for. THIS SHOW, FUCK, I trust it a tiny bit and it destroys me, then I spend days agonizing and expecting the absolute worst and it makes the most perfect possible choices. MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT. They even addressed the creepy age gap in a way that created characterization and also made me giggle.
I have never been so in love with Santana. NEVER. OMG. Her fanon social perceptiveness has been totally validated, she referred to Finn's "gassy infant look," and she is going Typhoid Mary on the ENTIRE FEMALE POPULATION OF MCKINLEY. Or possibly it's just aimed at Quinn, but you will never convince me Santana doesn't know what the collateral damage of this plan is going to be. Or that she feels anything but delight at that knowledge.
OMG OMG OMG OMG PUCK/LAUREN RING POP. I read this fanfic! Well, it was like a half-drabble, but it ROCKED. AS DOES THIS. And her reaction, the smile and immediate suppression, the charm despite herself--MORE PUCK/LAUREN, ALL PUCK/LAUREN, 43 MINUTES OF PUCK LAUREN WITH BRIEF KLAINE INTERLUDES, OR NOT, WHATEVER, IDEC. LAUREEEEEEEEEEN
No comment on the Finn/Quinn except that Finn is coming out even more of a vile gross dickbag, and Quinn is coming out almost kind of sympathetic, if intensely teenage in a really bad way. (Naturally, the people on this reaction post are calling her a skank.) Oh, and also--Finn in self-absorbed worst-of-all-teenage-boy-qualities asshole mode has a weird sexual magnetism, despite the hatred he incites in my heart. Therefore I need some porn fic where he's all in that mode and has hot sex in which he is totally humiliated and knocked down about thirty notches. FANDOM, SUPPLY ME. (Not that it would be remotely in character for ANYBODY, but Sam could do it, that would be hot. Nonsensical and badly-written I'm sure, but hot. ...maybe I'll post that to the kinkmeme.)
Okay. That Kurt/Blaine scene? That is ALL I NEEDED. Seriously, that's all, all my histrionics and insane freaking out, that is ALL I wanted to get. Kurt expressing interest, Blaine not saying no(or implying that he genuinely felt like saying no). I just need that narrative moment of "yes, this is happening," to stop the situation being humiliating for Kurt. And I know I'm incredibly oversensitive to this stuff, and impatient, but--I only started watching this wretched, wretched show because I found Kurt's story and it made me feel understood and empathized with in ways no gay teen character ever has(...like I've had SO MANY to choose from). So, yeah, I am super oversensitive about it going wrong, but I can't really stop unless I quit the show. And the end result of all this is that my instinct to trust the show regarding Kurt's story, and never trust it even the slightest little bit regarding anything else, has been proven correct.
Also that scene was wonderful because it was so mature and just so--Kurt has grown SO MUCH. If it weren't insane and pathetic to be proud of a fictional character who I didn't even write, I would be totally proud of him. Blaine's dialogue was way too on-the-nose about being The Introduction Of Blaine's Complexity And Flaws, but whatever.
I kind of can't get TOO enraged at Finn's turn for the douchier--I mean, at him, hell yes I sure can, but I'm not really pissed at the show for it, except for my constant low-grade feeling of "why always the least appealing way to be in character, WHY" that I have all the time about everything they do. But the thing is, everyone is TREATING him like he's being a douche. Even Will! So, you know, that's okay.
Santana being Nice is so freaking amazing. "That is a CAPITAL idea!" Tina...I mean, that was awesome, she's awesome, so adorable. But I admit I was pretty excited at the idea of a Jenna song :( Is it in her contract that she only gets one solo a year or something? Because it's pretty annoying.
What--I--what--Glee, did you just totally fuck up Lauren? DID YOU? JESUS CHRIST YOU DID. Hipster racism: STILL NOT AWESOME. (And the whole thing where she stood him up for...no apparent reason? Also bizarre and not in the fun way. But mostly, the out of NOWHERE gutpunch of totally gross hipster racism.)
Musically, that was a terrible choice for Lea Michele. (Or for ANYONE.) Emotionally, it was the most affecting Rachel solo in a long time, and perfectly deployed. Since we're not exactly scrabbling desperately for good numbers by Lea, I approve of the end result here.
Yes, I did in fact shriek hysterically (albeit, in my defense, briefly) when Blaine went into the "I loooove yooooou" part of the song and exchanged a significant look with Kurt. It's not all cerebral-yet-impassioned screeds about queer media representation around here, I'm still a fangirl. --AAAH OMG ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT LOOK
LOL FUCK THE WHAT, Blaine totally just dissed Santana in the manner of a thousand fanfics and he DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO SHE IS YET. And then, Wes/Santana, oh my GOD yes. --and then Sam/Santana...because they can, I guess? I would really rather Wes.
WHAT DID WE LEARN THIS WEEK: I seriously need to stop getting so hysterical about this shit, for real. Now I'm going to go read fic for a YEAR.
ugh, fuck this shit, liveblogging for MY OWN SANITY. such as it is.
having watched 3.5 minutes so far: PUCK/LAUREN YES FUCKING YES. The only way I made myself finally open this file and watch was after a full day of repeating to myself that all I expected was 1.) Puck/Lauren and 2.) a bunch of static and dead air that would still somehow manage to be offensive. I am trying my hardest to hope for nothing. EXCEPT PUCK/LAUREN, WHICH I SEEM TO BE RECEIVING. It's not 100% absolute perfection--I wish he could just be attracted to her without the "...but she's FAT" nod toward the audience--but SHE is absolutely perfect so far, and that's what matters. So like, so far after that one minute: 94% perfection. This is Glee, so that's basically a fucking miracle.
I have expressed my feelings about Finn/Quinn and why I HATE IT, and this is just...more reasons. One thing I loved about Finn last week--and there were several things I didn't, but--I loved how he and Quinn seemed to finally be building a friendship, and it seemed to be making both of them into better people. Then it turned out to be a romance, and look, it's making Finn into a fucking horrible douchebag again. Funny how I absolutely knew that would happen.
And, you know, it's pretty tough for me to feel bad for Sam, since twelve episodes in he still hasn't gotten a consistent or (outside of a couple episodes) interesting personality, but this will probably do it. Maybe that's their plan, to have Finn and Quinn be total dickfaces to him until I'm FORCED to like him, no matter how badly he's written.
I know how the Kurt/Blaine plot is going to go--I was spoiled half voluntarily, half accidentally--and I already know I'm going to be annoyed by the way it ends, and the way it plays out is going to stomp my embarrassment squick harder than almost anything ever. But I am in favor of character development for Blaine, and--if we could just get ONE. FUCKING. SIGN that Blaine has any kind of romantic feelings for Kurt, ANY at all, he doesn't have to be 100% aware of them or act on them or anything, but that's what annoys me about the ~slow burn~ shit. M/F couples on Glee do not get treated that way. They just don't. Sure, they may not get together right away--Finn and Rachel didn't really get together until the very end of season one--but they MADE OUT in episode TWO. Only Kurt pines after people with genuinely zero reciprocation, and if I can't have him being pursued and fought for, then I fucking well want him at least to be WANTED. Because it's pretty goddamn horrible any other way. I'm just so tired of him never, ever getting to feel like anyone wants him. Ever. I still believe they're endgame at least for this season--if I really thought they'd make Kurt go through all this and ultimately be rejected for good, I would quit the show right now--but, you know, watching this kind of plotline, it's not without context, it's not one among a thousand that all go differently. It's standing pretty much alone, and it hurts to watch.
THAT SAID, the beginning of this scene is painfully cute and I'm not, like, all angry at Blaine for ~leading Kurt on~, it's a pretty classic romcom plot. (I think the fans getting crazy pissed off at Blaine are intensely creepy, tbh.) And Chris Colfer playing 'infatuated in spite of himself' is, of course, a beautiful treasure.
so that was the past 3.5 minutes. Now to force myself to hit play again.
dsha;pkghk BRITTANY I CANNOT EVEN, OMG. "Totally gonna graduate now!"
also, I was 100% confused on Sunday, THIS is the episode with the supposed Brittana. Not getting my hopes up too high, but. (SPEAKING of Ryan Murphy offering queer representation and fucking it up. Although he fucked up Brittana a thousand times worse, of course, but still.)
FINN, STOP BEING A DAMN DOUCHE. ugh, I can't watch this. --however, everyone's reactions are pretty awesome. "I've kissed Finn, and can I just say--not worth a buck."
Also, hey, wtf, character continuity! More or less! From Glee! WHAT IN GOD'S NAME.
"You're addicted to vests." I am so with you there, Santana. SO with you. And Quinn, the lizard baby line was 100% fair and balanced in context. You came off as more of a terrible unpleasant person in that episode than you have basically EVER, so shut up and take your quips.
...Rachel, you have got to quit this thing of being my one true love in one episode and then a HORRIBLE AWFUL PERSON in the next one. Calling Santana a whore? Seriously? How amazingly fucking progressive.
EEEEEEEEEEE BRITTANA. Well, Brittany comforting Santana and petting her hair. I'll take it.
I just found Puck genuinely, convincingly adorable (and more importantly, genuine and convincing at all) for the first time in at LEAST nine episodes, I think way longer. Either this material or Ashley Fink is turning Mark Salling into something vaguely resembling an actor!
KURT, WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING GODDAMN ADORABLE I CAN'T DEAL WITH IIIIIIIIT. oh shit, he is going to be SO heartbroken. Or possibly so pissed off. I hope the latter. Oh god, Blaine is all TOUCHING on him, oh KURT.
Okay, so their approach to humanizing Blaine is to make him a total DOOFUS? I...can get on board with this. --also, I'm following along with a community reaction post from last night as I watch bit by bit, and FANDOM IS SO FUCKING BATSHIT. Blaine is not LEADING HIM ON, y'all. Kurt wasn't even being obvious in the coffee scene, for fuck's sake, we all just stare really intensely at his eyes 24/7 so we notice when, like, his lip twitches. And Blaine has no REASON to think Kurt feels anything like that for him, and he's wrapped up in his total doofus/hopeless romantic V-day ruminations. AND HE'S A KID. I've missed plenty of flirting that was in retrospect way more blatant, when I was years older than him. So basically, fandom, CURB yourself, jesus christ.
Oh my GOD, Blaine says something ~shocking~ and all the Warblers start muttering in surprise and we cut to the room in a (mild) uproar, everyone chattering, AND THEN CUT TO PAVAROTTI FLUTTERING AROUND LOOKING DISTRESSED. Best directing choice EVER MADE.
I don't know whether to laugh hysterically at this or facepalm myself to death. So we're gonna take the "broad comedy, no, broader, NO. BROADER." route with the Warblers, then? Not that Telly Leung didn't deliver the SHIT out of that line about the plane crash, I admit. p.s. you guys please give him a solo soon, like at least a line, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
YOU MOCK US, SIR. what do I even do with this shit, seriously, WHAT.
I really, really like this moment for Kurt. Because I think, yeah, what pushes him to start saying this is that he thinks Blaine's going to sing to HIM and also he wants to defend Blaine because of his looove, but almost immediately it becomes his actual opinion, about something that's important to him, phrased in a respectful and thoughtful but honest way. (And also: "I had a cat thrown at me in a nursing home once" = automatically my favorite speech of all time.)
SLEEPOVER SCENE SLEEPOVER SCENE. I forgot this was going to happen! And oh, oh, OH KURT YOU SWEET BEAUTIFUL SAD DARLING--"Oh my god, I made up the whole thing in my head, didn't I?" Like, first, that is beautifully delivered. Second, it's an astonishing moment of maturity and growth from season one, that it only takes him like five seconds of self-delusion before he gives up. Third, it is SO GODDAMN HEARTBREAKING, and it just--hurts, a LOT, to think about what he's going to take away from this experience. Reading signals is always hard, but when you go half your adolescence (or longer) in a situation where you never even start learning how, because you're closeted or you're justifiably afraid for your safety or you've been repeatedly humiliated for daring to respond in the past or you're just being told, all the time, by absolutely everyone and everything around you, that no one wants you and no one ever will--it fucks you up, a lot worse than people think who haven't been through it.
On the one hand, someone telling Kurt the value of being single and that he "needs to fly solo for a while" is kind of enraging, because all that shit sounds a lot less insightful when you don't have a choice about it and never have. On the other hand, it's coming from Mercedes, who's somehow gotten shafted even harder than Kurt in the romance department(still planning on that post-S2 vid about Glee's FUCKING UNBEARABLE RACISM, btw), so I can actually hear it from her and not feel like she's being a horrible person by saying it, because she's never gotten a choice either. So, okay. And the scene-ending snuggle was so wonderful, omg, I want a gif of it that I may loop unblinkingly for hours.
--wait, this just occurred to me. Blaine's crush is on a junior manager at the Gap? How old is this guy? I really hope he shows zero interest, not just because I want Kurt's pain to end, but because Blaine is 16/17 and that would be SUPER CREEPY.
Oh, and I really appreciate Amber's delivery of those lines. The subtle transition from her voice on "I don't give a rip" to her voice towards the end of her speech is so affecting. GLEE WHY WON'T YOU LET AMBER ACT MORE >:(
opith4qothgf;daklghreigh is...is Puck leading singing Fat Bottomed Girls? While gazing at Lauren? oh my GOD, was he DROPPED on his HEAD? --although, I mean, it is deeply in character. And there's precedent! (hardcore flashing back to LAST WEEK I JOINED A BLACK CHURCH right now.) But STILL. Anyway I am very pleased we get more of him singing, that's two episodes in a row! And I am helpless not to find him super hot while he's doing it, because he is so embarrassingly my type. I mean, I have a lot of types, but he's pretty much the definition of one of them.
WHY do I find Finn ferociously punching the air in the background of this shot SO ADORABLE. I'm pissed at him right now, dammit! STOP BEING SO CUTE YOU ASSHOLE. However I am not conflicted at all about my enthusiastic affection for Santana in that camo jacket with her hair down. :9
Hmm. I'm not sure how to take this. On the one hand, I kind of hoped Lauren wouldn't have any lines, ever, about feeling bad about being fat. But it could easily be that she feels bad because Puck SEES her, first and foremost, as fat. And it would be kind of humiliating to be serenaded with YOU'RE SO FAT IT'S HOT in front of all the other girls, but I was secretly frantically hoping for a "shit yes I am and SHIT YES IT IS, bitches" reaction. And, augh, I just super dug that performance, it was so cute and hot and sounded great. And now it makes me sad. Gleeee, why are you like this.
This kissing booth scene is going to be absolutely unbearable, I can tell right now and it's only been on for a millisecond. --well, it was shorter than I thought, but I came out of wanting to punch Finn as badly as if it had lasted an hour. Also wanting to punch all the writers for doing this to Quinn, because god FORBID she ever get ANYTHING to do that isn't about, or inevitably leading towards, her FEELINGS FOR BOYS.
I'm not really pissed at Sam for saying all that shit to Quinn, because it obviously comes out of actual pain, and his face at the end of the scene also obviously shows that he's in over his head with all these Confusing Feelings. But that's still got to be pretty awful for her to hear from her BOYFRIEND. Even more so because he's clearly in love with her (or the clueless teenage version) as he says it, but he still thinks so little of her.
AND ALSO HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT RECORDS ARE, oh SAM. I don't even know what to do with his increasingly-occasional endearing moments.
Oh, RACHEL. I have never loved her more than with that outraged, too-pissed-to-be-hurt-yet, "What the hell? On the CHEEK?" And then comes the hurt, and it's so--she has no filters, at this point, and it's so believable and frantic and heartbreaking.
Finn, I have no goddamned idea what to do with this. I seriously can't tell how much of that was genuine, where the hell it came from, WHY HE HAD THAT WITH HIM, why he just did that, how he feels about Rachel now, what--what--ANY OF THAT, WHAT. I'm so incredibly confused.
....and now I think I'm high. ARTIE. MIKE. WHAT. I. WHAT. I mean, hey, Artie and Mike being friends! Mike talking! Mike dancing! I'm in favor! But what.
"THAT'S MY MAN AND HIS LEGS DON'T WORK!" okay so Brittany I'm going to crawl through this screen and marry you, I'm going to do it right now, just a heads-up
Seriously, I'm pretty sure I took something, WHAT JUST HAPPENED. Santana totally quietly broke my heart, and then--well, it looked like the logical conclusion of trying to start a hair-pulling slapfight with someone who weighs about 250 pounds and flings other 250-pound people over her head in her spare time, and then Coach Beiste picked up Santana in a fireman's carry? But surely it could not have been that. Also, Puck's reaction is like the best thing to happen this whole episode and I'm pretty sure it will remain so. PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME, JUST, PLEASE.
UGH, okay, so apart from Finn calling Sam a pervert, which I could not help but love(and which suggested some possible fanfic solutions to this whole issue that I would very much like to read), that was basically repulsive in all ways. This iteration of Finn/Quinn is going to be one of those pairings that turns both people involved into horrible, unlikable, despicable jackass versions of themselves, isn't it? I mean, it already is, but I'm sure it will become more so. And just as I expected, I feel more sympathy for and interest in Sam now than I have since Duets. Pity about the collateral damage of HATING QUINN AND FINN.
Whoa, I am enjoying the run-up to WIGYA a lot more than I expected to. Blaine is adorably idiotic and doofy(Darren's delivery on the "if we got married" line is a JEWEL for the AGES), Kurt is appropriately "...oh my god, I am so ashamed to be crushing on you right now" and then SWEET AND SUPPORTIVE, omg. If this has to happen, this is EXACTLY how it should be. Although I am going to skip most of the number itself, because auuuugggh.
HOSHIT DID GAP GUY JUST CALL SECURITY, PLEASE LET HIM BE CALLING SECURITY. Also, I knew about this song but I am still not over the fact that BLAINE CHOSE IT. he chose THIS SONG. to woo someone he barely knows, in public. Even aside from the blatantly-sexual-and-kind-of-inappropriate factor, it's just so--it's not remotely romantic. It's so STUPID. why do I love him even more now /o\
fuuuuck I keep meaning to skip forward but I am HYPNOTIZED by embarrassment squick. Also, Gap Guy is a lot less fugly in full-size HD. I was seriously repulsed by him in the youtube clip. ALSO, I am just so in love with the Warblers being completely supportive (after they get past the OFF CAMPUS OMG issue) and into the performance. They clearly don't care about either the gayness or the Blaine-being-SO-RIDICULOUSness. they just really love singing, you guys, okay
oh. my. god. GRAB SOCKS, EXECUTE FINALE SLIDE ON KNEES, PRESENT SOCKS AT CASH REGISTER. "Was it too much? .....yeah, it was too much." Blaine, you have never been so goddamn magical to me. And I love that Kurt by this point is openly scornful/kind of annoyed, but still sitting there being a supportive friend. A scornful, kind of annoyed, clearly reevaluating-his-crush friend, but there!
okay, that was like the best denouement I could ever have hoped for. THIS SHOW, FUCK, I trust it a tiny bit and it destroys me, then I spend days agonizing and expecting the absolute worst and it makes the most perfect possible choices. MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT. They even addressed the creepy age gap in a way that created characterization and also made me giggle.
I have never been so in love with Santana. NEVER. OMG. Her fanon social perceptiveness has been totally validated, she referred to Finn's "gassy infant look," and she is going Typhoid Mary on the ENTIRE FEMALE POPULATION OF MCKINLEY. Or possibly it's just aimed at Quinn, but you will never convince me Santana doesn't know what the collateral damage of this plan is going to be. Or that she feels anything but delight at that knowledge.
OMG OMG OMG OMG PUCK/LAUREN RING POP. I read this fanfic! Well, it was like a half-drabble, but it ROCKED. AS DOES THIS. And her reaction, the smile and immediate suppression, the charm despite herself--MORE PUCK/LAUREN, ALL PUCK/LAUREN, 43 MINUTES OF PUCK LAUREN WITH BRIEF KLAINE INTERLUDES, OR NOT, WHATEVER, IDEC. LAUREEEEEEEEEEN
No comment on the Finn/Quinn except that Finn is coming out even more of a vile gross dickbag, and Quinn is coming out almost kind of sympathetic, if intensely teenage in a really bad way. (Naturally, the people on this reaction post are calling her a skank.) Oh, and also--Finn in self-absorbed worst-of-all-teenage-boy-qualities asshole mode has a weird sexual magnetism, despite the hatred he incites in my heart. Therefore I need some porn fic where he's all in that mode and has hot sex in which he is totally humiliated and knocked down about thirty notches. FANDOM, SUPPLY ME. (Not that it would be remotely in character for ANYBODY, but Sam could do it, that would be hot. Nonsensical and badly-written I'm sure, but hot. ...maybe I'll post that to the kinkmeme.)
Okay. That Kurt/Blaine scene? That is ALL I NEEDED. Seriously, that's all, all my histrionics and insane freaking out, that is ALL I wanted to get. Kurt expressing interest, Blaine not saying no(or implying that he genuinely felt like saying no). I just need that narrative moment of "yes, this is happening," to stop the situation being humiliating for Kurt. And I know I'm incredibly oversensitive to this stuff, and impatient, but--I only started watching this wretched, wretched show because I found Kurt's story and it made me feel understood and empathized with in ways no gay teen character ever has(...like I've had SO MANY to choose from). So, yeah, I am super oversensitive about it going wrong, but I can't really stop unless I quit the show. And the end result of all this is that my instinct to trust the show regarding Kurt's story, and never trust it even the slightest little bit regarding anything else, has been proven correct.
Also that scene was wonderful because it was so mature and just so--Kurt has grown SO MUCH. If it weren't insane and pathetic to be proud of a fictional character who I didn't even write, I would be totally proud of him. Blaine's dialogue was way too on-the-nose about being The Introduction Of Blaine's Complexity And Flaws, but whatever.
I kind of can't get TOO enraged at Finn's turn for the douchier--I mean, at him, hell yes I sure can, but I'm not really pissed at the show for it, except for my constant low-grade feeling of "why always the least appealing way to be in character, WHY" that I have all the time about everything they do. But the thing is, everyone is TREATING him like he's being a douche. Even Will! So, you know, that's okay.
Santana being Nice is so freaking amazing. "That is a CAPITAL idea!" Tina...I mean, that was awesome, she's awesome, so adorable. But I admit I was pretty excited at the idea of a Jenna song :( Is it in her contract that she only gets one solo a year or something? Because it's pretty annoying.
What--I--what--Glee, did you just totally fuck up Lauren? DID YOU? JESUS CHRIST YOU DID. Hipster racism: STILL NOT AWESOME. (And the whole thing where she stood him up for...no apparent reason? Also bizarre and not in the fun way. But mostly, the out of NOWHERE gutpunch of totally gross hipster racism.)
Musically, that was a terrible choice for Lea Michele. (Or for ANYONE.) Emotionally, it was the most affecting Rachel solo in a long time, and perfectly deployed. Since we're not exactly scrabbling desperately for good numbers by Lea, I approve of the end result here.
Yes, I did in fact shriek hysterically (albeit, in my defense, briefly) when Blaine went into the "I loooove yooooou" part of the song and exchanged a significant look with Kurt. It's not all cerebral-yet-impassioned screeds about queer media representation around here, I'm still a fangirl. --AAAH OMG ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT LOOK
LOL FUCK THE WHAT, Blaine totally just dissed Santana in the manner of a thousand fanfics and he DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO SHE IS YET. And then, Wes/Santana, oh my GOD yes. --and then Sam/Santana...because they can, I guess? I would really rather Wes.
WHAT DID WE LEARN THIS WEEK: I seriously need to stop getting so hysterical about this shit, for real. Now I'm going to go read fic for a YEAR.
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So.
This:
Hmm. I'm not sure how to take this. On the one hand, I kind of hoped Lauren wouldn't have any lines, ever, about feeling bad about being fat. But it could easily be that she feels bad because Puck SEES her, first and foremost, as fat. And it would be kind of humiliating to be serenaded with YOU'RE SO FAT IT'S HOT in front of all the other girls, but I was secretly frantically hoping for a "shit yes I am and SHIT YES IT IS, bitches" reaction. And, augh, I just super dug that performance, it was so cute and hot and sounded great. And now it makes me sad. Gleeee, why are you like this.
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Also, I knew about this song but I am still not over the fact that BLAINE CHOSE IT. he chose THIS SONG. to woo someone he barely knows, in public. Even aside from the blatantly-sexual-and-kind-of-inappropriate factor, it's just so--it's not remotely romantic. It's so STUPID. why do I love him even more now /o\
Just combined to help me put into words something I've been thinking a lot about since SLS. (Partly because, I won't lie, I consider "Fat-Bottomed Girls" a freaking hot song, and would enjoy the hell out of a serenade of it from the hot guitarist/singer I've been flirting with. Of course, I do frequently get wooed via serenade, so I'm pretty upfront about what songs work and what don't. And also, it is a damn awesome performance and pretty much sold me on Puck for the rest of forever.) BUT ANYWAY, I've been trying to figure out why she finds it so offensive, and I've decided that it's a lot like the whole Blaine song in that it is also kind of an inappropriate song to use to ~romantically woo someone in public. I mean, the assignment is love songs, and as sexy and amazing as FBG is, I'm not sure I'd label it a love song. (Okay, that's a lie, again, I would totally take it as a sexy as hell love song, but I'm not sure I would have in high school, even though I loved the song back then too.) (Also, there is a little bit of creepy perversion to the opening stanza which I try not to think about.) So I can kinda see how Lauren would find it inappropriate and shitty when he's using it as a ~love song and also, she's been turning him down pretty hard lately and they don't know each other very well.
I read this fanfic! Well, it was like a half-drabble, but it ROCKED.
Do you have a link? Because I need that like burning.
Yes, I did in fact shriek hysterically (albeit, in my defense, briefly) when Blaine went into the "I loooove yooooou" part of the song and exchanged a significant look with Kurt. It's not all cerebral-yet-impassioned screeds about queer media representation around here, I'm still a fangirl. --AAAH OMG ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT LOOK
Especially after he talks earlier about not being great about expressing his feelings with words, but much better through song. Oh, awkward Blaine, I love you come be my bff.
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I have made my peace further with the FBG/Lauren's reaction thing; a lot of my initial disappointment, to be honest, is me projecting my 26-year-old self onto her. Not that it wouldn't be amazing to have a high-school-age character who was totally down with fat acceptance and referred to herself as "fat" without any negativity at all and so forth. But I kind of suspect America is even less ready for that than they are for Kurt to finally get a makeout scene or Brittana to be treated like an actual relationship.
(Honestly, I'd be shocked as hell if any of the writers could even comprehend "fat acceptance" when it was explained to them; I have yet to meet anyone not-online who doesn't freak out when I call myself 'fat.')
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Yeah, I think you're right RE the audience not really being ready for that, which is super unfortunate. I wish the writers would do better anyway, but I do get that it is a business. Not that I think that's really an excuse.
And even if Lauren is down with fat acceptance, sometimes you don't want to have to take the time and energy to explain it and deal with the reactions other people have to the word "fat," etc. And also, I don't really trust the show anyway, so I guess I'm happier they don't try to use it.
Mostly, I just wish there was more fic out there that fulfilled my needs.