Looks like one of the extra’s has leaked a very important detail about next
week’s episode. :eek: Very unexpected (though it could be a huge fake out on the creators’ part). Don’t click on the link unless you want to be spoiled and don’t post the secret without spoiler space warnings.
Spoilers ahead, read at your own risk;
I’m very surprised that non-disclosure clauses aren’t already SOP for anyone (including extras) who work on TV shows.
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Spoilers ahead, read at your own risk;
I’m very surprised that non-disclosure clauses aren’t already SOP for anyone (including extras) who work on TV shows.
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If true that’s going to be a very busy episode because first they’ve got to X then Y before Z can happen. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a red herring.
Probably the most minor nitpick you’ll read all day, and I’m sure there’s a TV Trope that’s relevant, but, just one of those things that irks me about a show:
Gwyneth’s teaching a history class as Wallis Simpson. She says “tomorrow we’ll be discussing Catherine the Great” (plus something about her horse, yuk yuk).
Not GLEE specific, but this is something that’s done a lot on TV shows: history seems to be taught in absolutely nothing remotely like chronological order or by any type of geographic or temporal logic. A teacher will be talking about Abraham Lincoln in an episode set in September, FDR in an episode set at Christmas, the Ming Dynasty in an episode set in winter and then Valley Forge sometime in April- makes no sense. I’ve seen similar things done in Lit Classes on TV: W.B. Yeats this week and Gilgamesh next and then sometime after that The Scarlet Letter. Math and science are probably similar but I can’t judge those as well.
Apparently, they also don’t know how to teach math.
This one was pretty “meh” for me – their theme wasn’t their theme (of the artists featured, only Lykke Li could be considered at all neglected), a club we’ve never heard of before and will probably never hear of again gets to go to Detrot, Gwyneth Paltrow spins the Wheel of Morality – but it was good to see Mercedes actually get a storyline AND a fantastic solo. Mike’s dance number was also excellent. It was nice to see Rachel being unselfish about the spotlight, although now that I think of it giving up the closing number when there were only three people in the audience isn’t that big a sacrifice.
It did seem pretty strange that Kurt and his boyfriend could make it but not Kurt’s dad, Finn’s mom, or any of the other relatives of the glee club members OR the jazz band OR the gospel choir. My halfhearted fanwank of this is that people were allowed to reserve tickets without paying. Sunshine’s fans reserved all the seats, then didn’t show when she canceled so the auditorium was left nearly empty.
In terms of the season as a whole, I figure this episode existed just to remind us that Sunshine and Vocal Adrenaline still exist and will be at Nationals (why weren’t they at Regionals?) and that Karofsky is still a violent closet case. This will presumably be resolved next week, but it led to my favorite moment of the episode: Santana using her SuperBitch powers for good.
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It did seem pretty strange that Kurt and his boyfriend could make it but not Kurt’s dad, Finn’s mom, or any of the other relatives of the glee club members OR the jazz band OR the gospel choir.
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That bothered me too. NONE of them have friends or parents willing to come? Were they charging $500 per ticket or something?
This kind of thing annoys me about television classes too, but in this case I think it’s somewhat justified. Miss Holiday is the “fun sub” and she likes performing. It’s plausible, at least by the standards of Glee, that she’s deliberately coming up with history lessons that let her dress up and tell memorable stories and is not especially concerned with what the kids are supposed to be learning that week.
Speaking of educational standards on Glee, I watched Darren Criss’s Livestream performance this evening and he mentioned something that’s come up in our Glee threads before: Dalton appears to be run on a Lord of the Flies principle, with a bunch of adolescent boys being allowed to do whatever they want with zero adult supervision. This came up while he was answering a question about who he’d want as a guest star – he said his top pick would be Christopher Walken, and that while he’d previously thought Walker could be Blaine’s uncle or something he’d decided he’d be better as eccentric Headmaster William Dalton.
For his lips to Ryan Murphy’s ears!
Loved this show because it didn’t have a Leah Michele solo.
Yeah it’s kind of odd, in history, although probably a necessary conceit, in terms of tying in things thematically.
I don’t think it’s odd for English though. My English classes didn’t have any kind of organization that I could discern. Maybe someone less lazy than I could start a thread about that.
Good point. I doubt the Abdication Crisis is even covered in their textbooks or regular curriculum. My HS social studies classes didn’t even get to WWII until May and everything was from the American perspective. World History didn’t even make it past WWI.
Band name!
Unless it’s an 80s cover band, in which case it would be Hermaphrodite Nazi Synthesizers.
Kurt returns to McKinley next week (not a leaked spoiler- it’s in the preview). Also the next one is 90 minutes.
Chord Overstreet (aka Trouty Mouth) says there’s a major revelation about his character coming- since we’re pretty sure he’s not gay or pregnant I’m wondering what that is.
I’m still not sure about the former. 
And while it’s possible he’s gotten Quinn pregnant, I don’t see her making the same mistake again (at least until she’s finished high school and found the man she want’s to trap in Lima with her).
I’m going with witness protection program.
Well, he wouldn’t be the first…or second…or even third gay character on this show to have denied being gay.
Alternately, he may turn out to be the result of a bioengineering project to create a race of fishmen for amphibious warfare. The “boy’s school” he [del]transferred[/del] escaped from was actually a top secret military facility.
Actually I think it would be even more interesting if they make him bisexual. It’d allow from some really entertaining love triangles and over the top drama.
After reading some info on upcoming episodes I’ve come to the it’s not actually in the next episode, just a future episode. Judging by the titles it might be the episode after the episode after the next episode.
Ryan Murphy has said that Santana’s discovery/admission of her lesbianism is going to be a part of the upcoming episodes, so twixt that and Kurt/Blaine/Karofsky I think the show is kind of “Gayed in Full”. Any more and they can just have Sam and Puck hook up (group name: Suck), Mr. Schu develop a thing for Artie (Mr Shart) and Sue run off with Emma (Suma) and change the name from GLEE! to GAY!
I noticed that it was the three openly gay (for all intents and purposes) characters confronting the closeted gay character. Nice touch.
I think GLAY! would be more amusing for some reason, Sampiro. 
One of my favorite moments on the show was when Mercedes went out with Kurt and Blaine and started to hear “and the new cover of Vogue is aag gay gay gay. Gay! Gay gay gay gay gayyyy!”
In all seriousness I don’t think Sam will turn out to be gay, although a few episodes back I was thinking he might be better off romantically if he were. He seems like a nice enough boy, but he keeps winding up with girls who aren’t really into him. But now that Kurt’s off the market, a gay Sam would be left with no one but Karofsky. Ugh. And while hetero Sam may be disappointed when he learns that his current girlfriend is not actually attracted to him, he will at least be able to say for the rest of his life that he once dated a hot, slutty lesbian cheerleader.