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some_stars) wrote2011-02-22 09:07 pm
some_stars) wrote2011-02-22 09:07 pm
apparently this is my horrible new tradition
not-quite-liveblogging Glee. again.
FIGGINS, YESSSS, IL FIGGINS SO MUCH. "And not wasted on learning, Will! Wasted on BOOZE!!" Also, even though I hate Will with the fire of a thousand suns, that scarf and jacket look SO good on Matthew Morrison.
POP SENSATION KEE DOLLAR SIGN HA. I mean, it's not the most inspired line of jokes for Figgins--it sounds pretty recycled when he talks about "pop music glorifying binge drinking," like they're writing the idea of him instead of him, just like they've been doing with Sue--BUT. BUT. KEE DOLLAR SIGN HA. Fuck, why is that funny, I was so expecting it but I don't CARE.
WILL GET AWAY FROM EMMA. This is like 50% of why he disgusts me more than anyone else on the show, he's such a fucking DOUCHEBAG about her. And to her. Skipping this.
Puck and Rachel scene: cute, and I like their weird sort of friendship-ish thing. Now I'm paused in DREAD as Rachel approaches Finn with what may be hearts in her eyes. RACHEL, NOOOOO, YOU'RE A FIREWORK. DON'T DO THIS.
---awwww man, I am so PROUD of her. Which is STUPID because she's not a real person making her own choices. But nevertheless. That HUG, oh man. I seriously love these two as friends, they could be really good for each other.
Also this song is SO BAD. But on purpose, so that's fine. OH MAN. Okay, so I love that Finn could tell her it sucked and it wasn't a huge source of drama--she seemed more frustrated than hurt or insulted. I want to kick him in the balls for his line about "that's why I never got past second base," but I've wanted to kick him in the balls nonstop since the show came back from hiatus so I'm learning to deal with that urge. And I might be imagining it, but I love the way his face sort of goes all "...wait, this might be--wait, I don't--" when she walks away from this conversation about needing to get drunk by saying she's going to find Puck.
(The scene itself is pretty terribly written and the whole conceit is ridiculous--Rachel is FULL OF EMOTIONS, for god's sake, it's like her primary personality trait--but, eh. Not expecting much here.)
;wreh;kgjhfhgwrge "Kurt's been blackmailing me ever since he saw my browser history." Aside from how that is a beautiful line(except for the implication of Finn being reluctant and unhappy about Kurt's attendance and the implication that Rachel threw a party and didn't INVITE Kurt, but I am NOT FOCUSING ON THAT RIGHT NOW)--aside from that, it means that Kurt found Finn's porn. I choose to delude myself that this is a personal shoutout. Also holy fuck Kurt and Blaine look good right now, oh my GOD.
"Is that a stage?" AND THUS THE BEAUTIFUL RACHEL-BLAINE BROMANCE BEGINS. Except the opposite of a bromance. A ladymance. I don't know, whatever, IT'S GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
skipping the awkwardness to get to the drunken part! And I'm clearly going to have to rewatch this pausing every other second to take notes on who's doing what. I got distracted by Santana LICKING BRITTANY.
I think Finn is the best possible choice for who should be the sober one. And omg, Blaine hanging off him--"You're so TALL." <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
wait. wait. I rescind my fondness. FINN. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. I am genuinely so enraged at him right now. Also, this writing is terrible. Even the crappiest of the fics about this party I read over the last week had better and more in-character and funnier drunk antics than this. (And what, guys don't have ~drunk personalities?~ Also since when does Finn talk like that, douchery aside? Also WHAT A FUCKING DICKWAD.)
aw, crap, that Sam/Brittany kiss was really hot. Although wtf was Santana's reaction, but: hot.
TWO KISSES? WE GET TWO KISSES? FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS FUCKING SHOW. How can they waste a golden opportunity like this? SERIOUSLY, THE FUCK. I do like Kurt's series of reactions, though. He's delighted and entertained that they have to kiss, then shocked and confused by how into it Blaine gets, and trying very poorly to hide his sudden Conflicted Feelings and just generally--I love his stupid face.
Tina and Mike are SO CUTE drunk, omg. I love their ridiculous dancing. But I still think they should have cut out nearly all of this number and had more spin-the-bottle instead.
Mercedes is acting EXACTLY like I do when I'm drunk--sitting attentively, drinking, and singing along.
what the fuck Chris Colfer how did you just invest that one-second shot with SO MUCH EMOTION that you made "Don't You Want Me" sound like the deepest truest heartbreak in the world? HIS STUPID FACE, OMG.
LAUREN CUDDLING PUCK OMG YES.
sadng;lkwrhg;lhf SANTANA. SANTANA. WHO WERE YOU SAYING THAT TO. I'm not super into femslash on this show besides Brittana, but between this and her raising her hand during TMOLM, I am starting to give some serious thought to Rachel/Santana.
And they also completely wasted the opportunity to have Kurt interact with ANYONE from ND. He didn't even really get much to say to Rachel, nothing with Mercedes, and NOTHING with any of these people who haven't seen him for months and just--how can they not realize that people want to see him with everyone else? This whole scene is just, there is zero consideration of any relationships besides the couple of romantic pairings that they decided the scene was About. Nobody interacts with each other, nobody seems to notice or give a fuck about each other. It's completely bloodless and boring and fake.
--this is really freaky. Some of the footage from the promo isn't here although the scene it's from is, and more weirdly, several of the clips from the promo are here but with one or two words changed.
dsflhg4wp2tg8h3y89hgpaghs;k OH. MY. GOD. okay, I forgive this episode its shittiness for at least the next five minutes because: BLAINE. IN KURT'S BED. AND BURT JUST FOUND THEM.
...so on the one hand, it is the stupidest goddamn thing ever that everyone's hungover THREE DAYS LATER, because apparently human bodies on this show operate according to After-school Special Physics. on the other hand, at least Mercedes got a line pointing out how stupid it is.
Not that I don't hate Mike's endless Asian jokes(and lack of getting anything else to say ever), but Harry's delivery on "...panda hair" is priceless.
this is so dumb. oh my god, it's so DUMB. I don't expect realism because it's Glee--I don't REMOTELY expect realism--but I do expect shit to at least make sense within the fictional universe, and to have anything to do with anyone's previously established characterization. This is actually too stupid to enjoy.
....and suddenly I need Mike-Rachel friendship fic. I need it SO BAD.
SHANNON BEISTE. MARRY ME. I'M SERIOUS, I WANT TO BE YOUR WIFE FOREVER.
Fuuuuck. Okay, so, ignoring Darren Criss's unbelievably atrocious acting for the moment--I am actually, for the moment, okay with Kurt being a biphobic douche about this. It's a very common attitude, and one that I've seen a LOT among young queer-and-monosexual people--kind of a defensive lashing out, although obviously that doesn't make it at all okay. And it just feels true and in character. Unlike...everything else anyone does in this episode, ever. Obviously this will depend how they go on to handle it.
also--I love that they get to be angry at each other. That's a whole new emotion between them, and they really need to have some conflict and learn to deal with it.
Is...is Will's B-plot going to end up being my favorite part of this episode? AM I GOING TO HAVE RE-EVALUATE ALL MY LIFE CHOICES?
This performance is seriously expanding my sexual horizons. (And no, I don't mean Will. Gross.) I've never been so intensely attracted to Dot Marie Jones' type of butch before, but oh my GOD, I am now. I am SO attracted. I want to leap into the screen and make her take me out behind the bar.
Kurt is being seriously ugly this episode, although also so painfully understandable and sympathetic even as he's kind of repelling me. (And seriously, Rachel, that is SO against the ladyfriend code. You don't go after your friend's crush. Especially not when your friend's been going through the shit Kurt's going through and that crush is like the first non-awful thing to happen to them all year, especially not when they share that kind of history. Especially not when you've previously been the only person out of every single character on that show who seemed to understand even a little bit just how painful and lonely heteronormativity and homophobia can be.) (But Kurt's aggressive stereotype-enforcement is still gross and offputting. But in character.)
"I sat through that whole Brokeback Mountain--from what I gather, something went down in the tent!" I'm liking this scene, I think--though, like everything else about this episode, it could have been a million times better with even a tiny bit of effort--but I like that they're both kind of at fault here, they're both being kind of unfair to each other.
--wait. Wait. Did Kurt just ask his dad to give him the Talk? I am so done with this episode, what the fuck. HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT. NO ONE WOULD EVER DO THAT.
Seriously? Seriously, that's the lesson of this episode, "don't get constantly ridiculously drunk at school?" SERIOUSLY?
"The alcoholic teen vomit fetishist, Will Schuester."
"How about you crack a Four Loko, Count Boozy von Drunkaton?" Even in the crappiest episode, Santana gets a good line.
...so, I'm pretty much completely happy with how Kurt's coming out of this--deeply flawed and in some ways very unpleasant, but also completely human and, when he's calmed down, not deliberately cruel. He seems to truly care about Rachel even through his jealousy. I'm...not sure how I feel about Rachel responding to him reaching out with "Who cares about you?" but--I didn't get a mean vibe off that, you know? It felt like something normal between them, and Kurt seemed to take it that way too.
(But I am seriously so FUCKING over the hipster racism on this show. Blaine can give her vaguely Eurasian children? Which writer has the creepy multiracial fetish? Because they keep projecting it onto the white girls and it's so gross.)
That...is the weirdest possible resolution ever, and so rushed it's not even funny. But it's better than angst and suffering, and it's still way less offensive than it could have been. So. Yay? GOD, this week was a letdown.
--you know, I kept thinking "Is this an Ian episode? But everyone said it was going to be Brad. But the characterization is nonexistent and all the jokes are pathetic and tired except for some of Sue's and it's really offensive, it must be an Ian episode." AND IT WAS.
FIGGINS, YESSSS, IL FIGGINS SO MUCH. "And not wasted on learning, Will! Wasted on BOOZE!!" Also, even though I hate Will with the fire of a thousand suns, that scarf and jacket look SO good on Matthew Morrison.
POP SENSATION KEE DOLLAR SIGN HA. I mean, it's not the most inspired line of jokes for Figgins--it sounds pretty recycled when he talks about "pop music glorifying binge drinking," like they're writing the idea of him instead of him, just like they've been doing with Sue--BUT. BUT. KEE DOLLAR SIGN HA. Fuck, why is that funny, I was so expecting it but I don't CARE.
WILL GET AWAY FROM EMMA. This is like 50% of why he disgusts me more than anyone else on the show, he's such a fucking DOUCHEBAG about her. And to her. Skipping this.
Puck and Rachel scene: cute, and I like their weird sort of friendship-ish thing. Now I'm paused in DREAD as Rachel approaches Finn with what may be hearts in her eyes. RACHEL, NOOOOO, YOU'RE A FIREWORK. DON'T DO THIS.
---awwww man, I am so PROUD of her. Which is STUPID because she's not a real person making her own choices. But nevertheless. That HUG, oh man. I seriously love these two as friends, they could be really good for each other.
Also this song is SO BAD. But on purpose, so that's fine. OH MAN. Okay, so I love that Finn could tell her it sucked and it wasn't a huge source of drama--she seemed more frustrated than hurt or insulted. I want to kick him in the balls for his line about "that's why I never got past second base," but I've wanted to kick him in the balls nonstop since the show came back from hiatus so I'm learning to deal with that urge. And I might be imagining it, but I love the way his face sort of goes all "...wait, this might be--wait, I don't--" when she walks away from this conversation about needing to get drunk by saying she's going to find Puck.
(The scene itself is pretty terribly written and the whole conceit is ridiculous--Rachel is FULL OF EMOTIONS, for god's sake, it's like her primary personality trait--but, eh. Not expecting much here.)
;wreh;kgjhfhgwrge "Kurt's been blackmailing me ever since he saw my browser history." Aside from how that is a beautiful line(except for the implication of Finn being reluctant and unhappy about Kurt's attendance and the implication that Rachel threw a party and didn't INVITE Kurt, but I am NOT FOCUSING ON THAT RIGHT NOW)--aside from that, it means that Kurt found Finn's porn. I choose to delude myself that this is a personal shoutout. Also holy fuck Kurt and Blaine look good right now, oh my GOD.
"Is that a stage?" AND THUS THE BEAUTIFUL RACHEL-BLAINE BROMANCE BEGINS. Except the opposite of a bromance. A ladymance. I don't know, whatever, IT'S GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
skipping the awkwardness to get to the drunken part! And I'm clearly going to have to rewatch this pausing every other second to take notes on who's doing what. I got distracted by Santana LICKING BRITTANY.
I think Finn is the best possible choice for who should be the sober one. And omg, Blaine hanging off him--"You're so TALL." <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
wait. wait. I rescind my fondness. FINN. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. I am genuinely so enraged at him right now. Also, this writing is terrible. Even the crappiest of the fics about this party I read over the last week had better and more in-character and funnier drunk antics than this. (And what, guys don't have ~drunk personalities?~ Also since when does Finn talk like that, douchery aside? Also WHAT A FUCKING DICKWAD.)
aw, crap, that Sam/Brittany kiss was really hot. Although wtf was Santana's reaction, but: hot.
TWO KISSES? WE GET TWO KISSES? FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS FUCKING SHOW. How can they waste a golden opportunity like this? SERIOUSLY, THE FUCK. I do like Kurt's series of reactions, though. He's delighted and entertained that they have to kiss, then shocked and confused by how into it Blaine gets, and trying very poorly to hide his sudden Conflicted Feelings and just generally--I love his stupid face.
Tina and Mike are SO CUTE drunk, omg. I love their ridiculous dancing. But I still think they should have cut out nearly all of this number and had more spin-the-bottle instead.
Mercedes is acting EXACTLY like I do when I'm drunk--sitting attentively, drinking, and singing along.
what the fuck Chris Colfer how did you just invest that one-second shot with SO MUCH EMOTION that you made "Don't You Want Me" sound like the deepest truest heartbreak in the world? HIS STUPID FACE, OMG.
LAUREN CUDDLING PUCK OMG YES.
sadng;lkwrhg;lhf SANTANA. SANTANA. WHO WERE YOU SAYING THAT TO. I'm not super into femslash on this show besides Brittana, but between this and her raising her hand during TMOLM, I am starting to give some serious thought to Rachel/Santana.
And they also completely wasted the opportunity to have Kurt interact with ANYONE from ND. He didn't even really get much to say to Rachel, nothing with Mercedes, and NOTHING with any of these people who haven't seen him for months and just--how can they not realize that people want to see him with everyone else? This whole scene is just, there is zero consideration of any relationships besides the couple of romantic pairings that they decided the scene was About. Nobody interacts with each other, nobody seems to notice or give a fuck about each other. It's completely bloodless and boring and fake.
--this is really freaky. Some of the footage from the promo isn't here although the scene it's from is, and more weirdly, several of the clips from the promo are here but with one or two words changed.
dsflhg4wp2tg8h3y89hgpaghs;k OH. MY. GOD. okay, I forgive this episode its shittiness for at least the next five minutes because: BLAINE. IN KURT'S BED. AND BURT JUST FOUND THEM.
...so on the one hand, it is the stupidest goddamn thing ever that everyone's hungover THREE DAYS LATER, because apparently human bodies on this show operate according to After-school Special Physics. on the other hand, at least Mercedes got a line pointing out how stupid it is.
Not that I don't hate Mike's endless Asian jokes(and lack of getting anything else to say ever), but Harry's delivery on "...panda hair" is priceless.
this is so dumb. oh my god, it's so DUMB. I don't expect realism because it's Glee--I don't REMOTELY expect realism--but I do expect shit to at least make sense within the fictional universe, and to have anything to do with anyone's previously established characterization. This is actually too stupid to enjoy.
....and suddenly I need Mike-Rachel friendship fic. I need it SO BAD.
SHANNON BEISTE. MARRY ME. I'M SERIOUS, I WANT TO BE YOUR WIFE FOREVER.
Fuuuuck. Okay, so, ignoring Darren Criss's unbelievably atrocious acting for the moment--I am actually, for the moment, okay with Kurt being a biphobic douche about this. It's a very common attitude, and one that I've seen a LOT among young queer-and-monosexual people--kind of a defensive lashing out, although obviously that doesn't make it at all okay. And it just feels true and in character. Unlike...everything else anyone does in this episode, ever. Obviously this will depend how they go on to handle it.
also--I love that they get to be angry at each other. That's a whole new emotion between them, and they really need to have some conflict and learn to deal with it.
Is...is Will's B-plot going to end up being my favorite part of this episode? AM I GOING TO HAVE RE-EVALUATE ALL MY LIFE CHOICES?
This performance is seriously expanding my sexual horizons. (And no, I don't mean Will. Gross.) I've never been so intensely attracted to Dot Marie Jones' type of butch before, but oh my GOD, I am now. I am SO attracted. I want to leap into the screen and make her take me out behind the bar.
Kurt is being seriously ugly this episode, although also so painfully understandable and sympathetic even as he's kind of repelling me. (And seriously, Rachel, that is SO against the ladyfriend code. You don't go after your friend's crush. Especially not when your friend's been going through the shit Kurt's going through and that crush is like the first non-awful thing to happen to them all year, especially not when they share that kind of history. Especially not when you've previously been the only person out of every single character on that show who seemed to understand even a little bit just how painful and lonely heteronormativity and homophobia can be.) (But Kurt's aggressive stereotype-enforcement is still gross and offputting. But in character.)
"I sat through that whole Brokeback Mountain--from what I gather, something went down in the tent!" I'm liking this scene, I think--though, like everything else about this episode, it could have been a million times better with even a tiny bit of effort--but I like that they're both kind of at fault here, they're both being kind of unfair to each other.
--wait. Wait. Did Kurt just ask his dad to give him the Talk? I am so done with this episode, what the fuck. HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT. NO ONE WOULD EVER DO THAT.
Seriously? Seriously, that's the lesson of this episode, "don't get constantly ridiculously drunk at school?" SERIOUSLY?
"The alcoholic teen vomit fetishist, Will Schuester."
"How about you crack a Four Loko, Count Boozy von Drunkaton?" Even in the crappiest episode, Santana gets a good line.
...so, I'm pretty much completely happy with how Kurt's coming out of this--deeply flawed and in some ways very unpleasant, but also completely human and, when he's calmed down, not deliberately cruel. He seems to truly care about Rachel even through his jealousy. I'm...not sure how I feel about Rachel responding to him reaching out with "Who cares about you?" but--I didn't get a mean vibe off that, you know? It felt like something normal between them, and Kurt seemed to take it that way too.
(But I am seriously so FUCKING over the hipster racism on this show. Blaine can give her vaguely Eurasian children? Which writer has the creepy multiracial fetish? Because they keep projecting it onto the white girls and it's so gross.)
That...is the weirdest possible resolution ever, and so rushed it's not even funny. But it's better than angst and suffering, and it's still way less offensive than it could have been. So. Yay? GOD, this week was a letdown.
--you know, I kept thinking "Is this an Ian episode? But everyone said it was going to be Brad. But the characterization is nonexistent and all the jokes are pathetic and tired except for some of Sue's and it's really offensive, it must be an Ian episode." AND IT WAS.
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YES YES YES I already loved Beiste a lot, despite the way the show writes her sometime (uh, I should say here that I only started watching on "Silly Love Songs" after breaking up with the show spectacularly early in season one, because I still sometimes read
I am actually, for the moment, okay with Kurt being a biphobic douche about this. It's a very common attitude, and one that I've seen a LOT among young queer-and-monosexual people--kind of a defensive lashing out, although obviously that doesn't make it at all okay. And it just feels true and in character. Unlike...everything else anyone does in this episode, ever. Obviously this will depend how they go on to handle it.
So much this. I am not pleased with how the episode just basically lets that comment go and doesn't actually deal with it, and I have zero faith in the show in general and so don't expect it to ever be addressed again, but Kurt actually making a biphobic statement like that worked for me. He reminds me so much of some of the young queers I knew when I was a young queer, and that attitude was so freaking prominent. (Not that it's just a young queer attitude; I run into it a lot among older queers, too. I cannot count how many times I've been told it all comes down to the dick; bisexual boys are really gay and bisexual girls are really straight. Fuuuuuck that nonsense.)
But I am seriously so FUCKING over the hipster racism on this show. Blaine can give her vaguely Eurasian children? Which writer has the creepy multiracial fetish? Because they keep projecting it onto the white girls and it's so gross.)
Dude, yes. This line and Lauren's line in "Silly Love Songs" made me side-eye the show so hard. Even when I'm enjoying an episode a lot (SLS, obviously), the little things can still be so, so shitty. Damn it, show.
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But I just couldn't pull myself away from Kurt--watching his storyline in Duets, followed by the "Teenage Dream" performance, in particular, that was like someone reaching into my soul and saying yes yes we get it we understand we know exactly what it feels like, which has never happened with network TV ever. And then I marathoned the whole show, skipping over the most unbearably offensive parts, and suddenly I was fond of all these douchebags. It's like a sickness. I'm not sure if I'll keep it up when Doctor Who comes back, but I have a ton of stories left to write so I hope so.
...and that's my Glee biography, apparently. IDK. That is how we roll around these parts.
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in particular, that was like someone reaching into my soul and saying yes yes we get it we understand we know exactly what it feels like, which has never happened with network TV ever.
Yes, this. I get this from Kurt in some ways and I get this from Lauren in some ways and so right now the show has become horrifically important to me, despite the fact that I do not, do not, do not trust it not to break my heart now that it is important. I don't want it to matter, because they are going to fuck it up, and yet it does. Ugh.
Your Glee biography was awesome.