I hadn’t noticed during The Glee Project, but Damian McGinty actually looks kind of like Kurt too – only cuter.
It was nice to hear someone say it on the show, rather than attributing their loss to the Finn/Rachel kiss. While that was unprofessional behavior, it was nowhere near as unprofessional as throwing an act together almost literally at the last minute.
I think one big problem (of several) is that the show now has way too many “dramatic” storylines that are obviously going nowhere. There’s no way New Directions won’t be able to compete at Sectionals. There’s no way they won’t win at Sectionals, and it’s almost inevitable that they’ll go on to win at Regionals too and then probably Nationals. There’s no way Mercedes, Brittany, and Santana will stay out of New Directions for long. There’s no way Quinn will regain permanent custody of Beth, although they might contrive some way for Beth to be temporarily returned to her care. There’s no way Sue will ever succeed in getting the club cut. Since the writers are apparently unwilling to have her grow up and get over it she’s stuck in a sort of Wile E. Coyote role, having to come up with increasingly outlandish schemes that will inevitably fail.
Any story needs conflict of course, but there’s plenty of opportunity for that in a show about high school students without going back to “WILL THE GLEE CLUB BE DESTROYED?” type stories again and again.
It was kind of difficult for me, although not too bad. I’m not certain I caught every word correctly, though.
I don’t think the design had anything to do with the staging of the play, Kurt was just doing his own thing as usual.
Re: Brittany’s parents:
Yeah, I’ve imagined them as brilliant nuclear physicists or something who are really busy and possibly haven’t even noticed that their daughter is the way she is.
I don’t really get what message Glee is trying to send. I mean, they’re all about self-empowerment and being true to who you are, but then the bullies in the Glee world never get punished.
In their world the teachers pick on you (not just Sue but others, as seen in the Christmas episode), students throw you into lockers and no one cares. At all.
The whole subplot with the Irish kid was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen, even by *Glee *standards.
The only part I really liked was that *finally *someone mentioned how idiotic it was for the Glee club to go to NYC with no set list and write the songs the night before.
I know the real world sucks as well, but I can’t imagine a teacher being able to throw a student into lockers or even just throw sticks into their hair without a parent suing the hell out of a school.
Or another teacher letting someone throw them down the stairs without the cops being called.
As I mentioned upthread, Sue is cartoonish even for Glee. She does or attempts to do all kinds of things that would be illegal or even impossible in the real world. But “bullies … never get punished” and “students throw you into lockers and no one cares” sounds pretty much like my school days. I’ve always felt the depiction of school bullying (ETA: that is, student-on-student bullying) on Glee was relatively realistic. The specifics are often exaggerated, but everything on Glee is exaggerated.