Sorry for replying to myself twice here, but I remembered Sebastian did make some pretty offensive remarks about Santana and her family. This was so overshadowed by his later attempt to blind a rival that it slipped my mind. Still, racism isn’t this guy’s primary problem.
I’ve been wondering if maybe this episode was hastily rewritten to provide an explanation for Blaine being absent next week (Darren Criss was performing on Broadway when they shot the next episode), because the ending would have been a lot more appropriate if copying another choir’s ideas and insulting people had actually been the worst things Sebastian had done. But so much time was devoted to Blaine’s injury and the covert taping scheme that I feel like the attack must have been present in the script from fairly early on.
There’s no reasonable explanation, but there was one given - the principal explained that slushies aren’t on the school boards official list of weapons. The real answer is of course that the writers love throwing slushies. Or did you mean the Warblers?
They weren’t playing themselves.
Question like this, “who’s so vain?”, and “well who did start the fire then?” are important and really deserve their own thread.
They really haven’t given that Glee Project winner much to do lately, have they? They should make him an actual, magical leprechaun, just so he’ll have some purpose on the show.
I really did enjoy Santana’s suggestions for tramp-stamping Sebastian: “Tips Appreciated” or “Congratulations, You’re My 1000th Customer.” Burn!
Oh, fuck that god damned jellyfish of a principal! Assault is assault.
You know how I want the season to end? President Obama sends the National Guard into Ohio to enforce the Supreme Court ruling against funding public schools with local property taxes, and makes whatever-the-fuck-that-school-is spread their wealth around to the less-affluent schools in the state.
Is that why that guy is on the show – he won a contest? I actually like him a lot, but they never do anything with him. And did I miss his formal introduction? IIRC< he just sorta showed up in an episode one day with no explanation.
This was a horrid episode. I will NEVER get used to Artie standing up and dancing – I was aghast when he did it the first time for “Safety Dance.” I had totally thought the actor was really in a wheelchair.
The only part I did like was when they did the Black or White morphing thing. I love that in the actual video for the song, and I loved that they did it for the Glee singers.
Also, I had no idea Michael Jackson had so many terrible songs.
I totally forgot the part that actually made me yell FLUFF YOU at the tv – the part in Black or White where Kurt says the line about “dirt kicked in my EYE” and he all pointed at his EYE.
For a split second, I wondered if the whole Blaine eye-injury subplot was developed based solely on the line from the song. I wouldn’t put it past the Glee writers.
I seriously disliked this episode. This is the first one I thought was awful, for all the reasons already mentioned. I was so pleased with the last episode, the one featuring Becky’s narration, that this one seemed even worse by comparison.
There was a reality show on cable over the summer, and the winners were awarded a certain number of appearances on Glee. The boy playing Rory was one of the two first prize winners. The girl who had a solo at the NYADA get together and at Sectionals was a runner-up. There’s another winner who should be showing up soon, since there are only about nine episodes left this season and the winners were promised eight.
In his first episode, “Pot of Gold”, they said he was an exchange student who’s staying with Brittany’s family. He’s done very little since then, but they explained his presence about as well as they explain anything on the show.
They missed a golden opportunity to have Puck dangle Beth over a balcony.
IIRC, they’ve already done that song before.
No Sue = bad ep, the trend continues.
I liked that weird thing with Artie and Mike, but I had no fucking clue what MJ song that was (and I don’t really care to find out). About half the songs they picked I didn’t recognize for that matter.
I didn’t really care for the Santana/evil Warbler rendition of Smooth Criminal, and that’s probably my favorite MJ song. Santana’s got a decent voice, but she just wasn’t right for that song, IMO.
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The only think since then is when he also recited the second chapter of Luke which convinced the Glee club to stop being vapid and go taunt poor people with “Do they know it’s Christmas?”.
The “pacifism” message really pissed me off- one of those “it’s just a show/sit back and just relax” moments I know but I’m just trying to cipher the logic of it. I understand why vigilantism is bad, but Sebastian tried to- possibly did- blind somebody and they have hard evidence, it’s not vigilantism to stop him. It is vigiliantism to gang up and beat him until somebody stops moving, but in this case- I wouldn’t approve perhaps but I wouldn’t call the Secret Witness line either. You don’t turn the other cheek on this one. Exactly what message are they trying to impart with “we’ll outsing you instead?”, plust Santana would never go for that, she’d just gank him while people cheered.
Great sentence from AVClub’s recap about the characterization on Glee:
And Blaine needs to break up with Kurt. If the clinginess didn’t do it, singing me a song about a motherfookin’ rat when I don’t know if I’m going to keep the sight in one of my eyes would.
On another topic: Sneak-peekvid of Ricky Martin’s upcoming appearance. I hope that the really bad audio synching is just on that video.
I remember that more as the episode where we learned that Jews are greedy and covet jewelry…until they learn about Jesus. They’ve really had some offensive moments this season.
I don’t think it even makes sense within the context of the show, as Glee has dealt with bullying again and again and never suggested that it’s wrong to ask the authorities to protect the victims and punish the guilty. It has depicted the authorities as being frequently unwilling or unable to do anything – which may, sadly, be the single most realistic thing on the show – but it never suggested that Kurt was wrong to think that Karofsky should be punished for bullying him. He did eventually forgive Karofsky, but (unlike Sebastian) Karofsky both stopped the bullying and apologized for his past behavior.
I was actually kind of rooting for Kurt to initiate a breakup. Sebastian has been openly trying to get in Blaine’s pants since the moment they met, and even though he has never displayed any remotely likable qualities (I’m not even impressed with his singing) Blaine has apparently continued to be pals-y with him behind Kurt’s back. While he has the right to associate with whoever he likes, Kurt also has the right to say “You have to choose between me, your boyfriend, and Sebastian, your new buddy the sleazy, spoiled, lying creep who’s been scheming to steal our routine and blind me.”
I’d be okay with a Kurt/Blaine love triangle plot (not thrilled since Glee has gone to the love triangle well all too often, but okay with it) if the third party had been at all appealing or even interesting, but Sebastian is just horrible and boring. And it’s not like there aren’t other obvious ways to generate conflict for this couple; Kurt is planning to go to NYC in the fall while Blaine is stuck in Lima until at least graduation.
By any chance, do you use TiVo? Apparently TiVo didn’t record his introductory episode (for reasons I never looked into). A bunch of us were in the same boat as you.
I wish the would have somehow indicated the rock salt added to the slushie beforehand. When Blaine got slushied and he hit the floor groaning and screaming all I thought was sheez what a wuss. The New Directions kids have each been slushied multiple times and on Blaine’s first one he acts like the slushie was made of acid. I was glad there was an explanation given eventually.
Of course, even without the underboob recording, wouldn’t the fact that Blaine had a slushy thrown in his eye by Sebastian in front of a dozen or two witnesses and immediately afterwards was found to have cornea damage in and of itself get Sebastian held liable for assault?
Didn’t like it. They already did almost all the Michael songs people wanted to hear prior to this episode, and the only thing that stood out was Smooth Criminal. The plot was-to put it delicately-not strong enough to make up for the lack of excellent music. Once I saw the direction the episode was heading in, I starting sorting through the mail, paying bills, and making phone calls.
This bothered me as well. Even had the slushy not been doctored, Sebastian deliberately threw it at another person resulting in serious physical injury. IANAL, but that sounds like, at best, criminal recklessness.
It’s also rather odd that the decision about what to do about Sebastian fell to Blaine’s choirmates. It’s not clear that Blaine even agreed to this. He also presumably has some sort of legal guardian, and even if not I wouldn’t expect Burt to shrug this sort of thing off – especially not since the slushy had been intended for Kurt.