I once dismayed a sweetie by stating that I don’t care about musicals. Some I love, but for the most part, blech. This is normal for me, as in ‘I don’t care about anime’ but love a couple; don’t care about x type of music, but love a couple songs. It’s par for the course.
So, I don’t hate Glee or anything, just never intended to watch it.
But the episode on Tuesday, May 18th? I’ve gotta see that.
Joss Whedon is directing <again, I don’t care about Joss Whedon, but love Firefly>, and Neal Patrick Harris is guest star. AND again, I seem to be getting a lot more fun out of “NPH as icon” than I ever did out of any of his actual roles <what were they again? who cares!>
So…there we go.
I will be DVR-ing this, and my sweetie will be going ‘WTF IS THIS’ when he sees it in the queue.
Apparantly no; one of the co-creators of ‘Glee’ did.
It seems there are some good Glee episodes and some not-so-good ones, and this is apparantly a good one. So…if you’ve never seen it before, might be the one time to give it a shot.
If I can sit through some kid’s cartoon, listening to a megamaniacal supervillian sing out his life story JUST BECAUSE IT’S NPH SINGING, well…I don’t think Glee will be any worse. =o
Thing about Glee is, they haven’t done a lot of show tunes recently. It’s been pop hits and Madonna. They got away from where they started. I know Kurt did his Gypsy rendition, but that’s been about it.
So if you’re not into musicals, that doesn’t mean you have to stay away from Glee.
I hope it’s better than that musical Buffy episode. I understand it made sense to people who had been following the series, but, even for them, the singing itself was pretty horrible.
A song can move the plot, but it should absolutely not be required to hear every word of a song to figure out what is going on. Especially when your singers can’t enunciate.
Glee started with plenty of pop hits, too, but you’re right that they have done fewer show tunes lately. The “theme” aspects to recent episodes haven’t lent themselves to show tunes, for one thing. And I suspect (though I haven’t actually checked) that their show tune renditions don’t sell on itunes as well as their pop covers and I’d bet that is driving song selection for the shows.
“Penultimate” means the second to last. The penultimate episode is today (Tuesday) and the finale (ultimate episode) is this Sunday.
For those not wanting to miss out on things, there’s a Darlton bit on Jimmy Kimmel Friday night, and a general Lost thing on Kimmel Sunday night. On Saturday there’s an enhanced version of the Pilot (pop up video). On Sunday before the show there’s some kind of generic Lost thing they have before each season’s finale.
No, that was the antepenultimate, second-from-last Lost last week. It’s the next-to-last Lost next week.
(I may have the facts wrong here, but when I saw “penultimate Lost” in that other post, the sentence wrote itself in my head, and I just had to post it! )
Artie in the foreground, his girlfriend dancing with another man in the background. Yeah, kick me in the gut, Whendon!
I know the cast is getting crowded, but when do Mike and Matt get something to do other than pop and lock? Hell, they let Santana sing, give Shaft and Other Asian a couple of lines!
Best episode of the season so far. Loved Artie and the Safety Dance. I’d heard he was one of the best dancers in the cast. NPH was great–I loved he and Morrison singing Piano Man and then Dream On.
