Glee 1x14 Hell-o

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Oh Glee.


Let's start with the awesome, which is YAY THEY'RE BACK SINGING TO MEEEE. Such amazing song choices! When Lea bust out into Gives You Hell I was SO DELIGHTED. Her voice is so wonderfully versatile, and my enormous crush on Lea continues unabated. Even Cory put out a great piece - it sounds like he's been training, and they're finally letting him sing in his range, so it sounded good! Hello Goodbye at the end was sweet but not overwhelmingly awesome - I would have been more affected if it hadn't been in all the promos, because man, I LOVE that song! But the faaavorite, of course, is LEA AND JGROFF SINGING LIONEL RICHIE UNFFFFFF. Their voices complement each other SO WELL, and it was delightful to see Lea finally meet her talent match. It's so clear that they've worked together for ages - there's such an easy chemistry there.

Which is why it fucking sucks that his character is already an asshole. I mean, who didn't see that coming, but I was hoping I would get pleasantly surprised!

I should know by now not to expect that from Glee. What I got from last night is this: people are SHITTY to each other. People are selfish and stupid and cruel. When Finn AVOIDED GIVING ARTIE A HIGH FIVE, i was so shocked I just gaped. Is Artie still "uncool" just because he's in a wheelchair? He has proved himself to be by far one of the coolest members of Glee, yet Finn's being a shit to him? Whatever, tiny moment, but it was so horrifying. Ugh. Then let's not even talk about Will cheating on Emma at the drop of a hat. I dont care if he stopped, he was still making out with that woman super enthusiastically. (Aside: IDINA MENZEL IS AWESOME.) Will's response to the fact that Emma is a virgin was SO AWFUL. He looked almost disgusted! WHAT AN ASSHOLE. Like - seriously?!??? I thought maybe dating the sweetest person on earth would help him be slightly less assholeish for a little while, buuuuut no. Instead she just gets the blunt force of it. Gross.

Don't even make me talk about the club of old maids - obviously being fat is shorthand for ugly and unwanted. Sue's underhanded tricks always make me vaguely nauseous, but that was one of the worst. I do find it kind of pitifully hilarious how people try to insult Rachel for her looks, because they have to make up the most ludicrous things - boyhips? Hahaha. Because, um, hello, you cast a STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS WOMAN to play this supposed reject. If it wasn't so funny, I'd cry.

I really wished by this point they would have found a balance where people screw up but they're ultimately decent human beings. Instead, we get whammied with cynicism every damn week. This show HATES HAPPINESS, which is pretty ironic, obvs. Eh.

I ain't gonna stop watching, because the music is like CRACK, but I still register my complaints. Which have been there right from the start.

Now off to rewatch the musical numbers. GLEE I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU.

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I think "extreme" is a very good way to put it. These people are all technicolor caricatures of what might be real kinds of people, and while some people seem to enjoy that, I for one go in much for the realism and subtlety. So I think there's just a stylistic clash there. But it goes beyond pure extremity - it's extreme negativity, as well as inconsistency. Sometimes Rachel is the most overblown diva ever, thinking only of herself, and other times she's soft and sweet and lovable. I feel like I'm on a yoyo where she's concerned. I think it's odd that the time she was sweetest was when she was in that constructed relationship with Puck. The two of them brought out the best in each other, like no other characters have. (Puck is also extremely inconsistent - I know teenage boys are obsessed with sex, but they seem to build him up only to smash him down to caveman status again. It's frustrating.)

I am on the pro-Rachel team for SURE, but that's almost despite some of things she does. Sometimes she just gets to be too much for me, but that goes back to my original point about these characters often being caricatures, so I try to see past that and to the insecure little girl who just wants to be loved - I can totally empathize with that. I know that *I* would have absolutely swooned if anyone said "But you're talented." and looked at me like THAT. (Oh god, Jonathan Groff. HI.) I can sort of understand a bit of dislike towards Rachel, but certainly not the venomous hatred, and particularly not the hatred towards Lea!! What on earth is there to hate about Lea?? Ugh. People are terrible. (Ha! And we wonder why there's a whole show about PEOPLE BEING TERRIBLE.)

I unfortunately disagree that Jesse's look was ambiguous at all. You don't open your eyes and look at someone else in the middle of a kiss if you're feeling the kiss at all. Also, Glee is not subtle. We are meant to believe that Jesse is playing her, and his choir director is telling him to. Now that does not rule out some other possibilities, namely that 1) Jesse's only pretending to be cooperating with his director, or 2) he will ultimately fall for Rachel despite his original intentions. However, I do not trust this show to ever deliver any emotional truths like that, so my guess is that the storyline will be messy and catastrophic. However, it will be super pretty to watch AND listen to in the meantime.

Oh god, Brittany. "Sometimes I forget my middle name." Oh honey. She just says everything so monotone, not typical ditzy. It's hilarious.

....why do I expend so much energy on this show?! Gah.

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I really like your brain.

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Aw, shucks. *scuffs toe* I like yours too. :D