So let’s discuss some of the plot points from this week. I dub this the “you thought we forgot but we really haven’t” episode.
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[li]Sue Sylvester becomes a youtube viral video and has a sweet encounter with her sister and a brush with fame with guest star Olivia Newton John[/li][li]Molly Shannon joins the cast, at least long enough to piss off Sue?[/li][li]Glist is posted - of how slutty each Glee member is. Quinn finally gets a bit of a story line again.[/li][li]Shu gets called on the fact that he supposedly loves Emma but has made out with someone else, and slept (how innocently) with someone else.[/li][li]Rachel manages to piss off all 3 guys who gave her the time day[/li][/ul]
I liked some of the songs but I thought the Emma thing was pretty abrupt. I didn’t like how Will completely ignored how Emma called him out in front of everyone. He would have had every right to be angry with her, and I think he should have been.
I love how they used that as the way that she became a dancer for the group - seeing as she was obviously originally brought in for her dancing skills.
A decent episode, but I didn’t like “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” For such an over-the-top song, I thought the ballet dancing was a weird choice. That song deserves a little more power and glitz.
I agree Emma should have been the one apologizing to Will for humiliating him in front of everyone.
I’ve never heard “Run Joey Run” before. Dear lord, that’s an awesomely bad song.
I liked it. I think Sue Sylvester was in top form. I thought the way they handled her relationship with her sister and her attempt to do a good deed was fitting for her character. It didn’t feel totally out of left field.
Sr. Olives thinks that the boys all overreacted to Rachel’s video, but I contend it was not the video itself, but the motivation behind the video, that pissed them all off.
I think Will had a right to be pissed off at Emma, but it wasn’t really in his character to do anything other than brood about it quietly. Dude’s kind of a pushover.
Overall, this was a very sad episode. The whole thing just ended on a note of tragedy. Very well done, though.
I’m a pretty casual viewer of this show, and have enjoyed it off and on. But I thought this episode was absolutely awful. It’s getting a ton of press right now, and I don’t think this episode would have gotten any new viewers on board.
The problem there is that you could never out-do the actual music video for that. It is supreme in its awesomeness. It has fencing, and ninjas, and devil-eyed schoolboys.
Didn’t she mess up one of the lines too?
My big disappointment in this episode was that the “rehabilitation” of the songs were all pretty much straight covers. I was kinda hoping they would re-work them somehow to actually make them, ya know, good.
No doubt. My wife hadn’t heard it either, and couldn’t stop laughing.
But “Run, Joey, Run” was so in keeping with Rachel’s character. Of course she would pick that song.
The “Ice, Ice Baby” cover - so Shu has to do every rap song, eh? Don’t get me wrong, I have my girl-crush moments. But I noticed that he seems to do the rap thing a lot . . .
“I’ve been here since first period. I have a cold so I took all of my antibiotics, and now I forget how to leave.”
Rachel’s final headshot-smile at the end of the Run, Joey, Run video. Both of us were pretty much holding each other up because we just collapsed laughing.
“The whole school got expelled!”
Things that killed me (because OMGWANT!):
Mark Salling
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Mark Salling
I think whathisname (Jonathan Groff’s character) is a sleeper cell working for Idina Menzel’s glee coach character to disrupt and destroy New Directions.
Didn’t love it, but definitely liked it. I agree with SaharaTea - while I like “Total Eclipse” there, the ballet was a really weird choice to go with it. I’m not sure I really dug Molly Shannon’s character, but that’s quite possibly because I don’t really dig Molly Shannon. Overall though I think the pieces fit together well enough to make a solid ep.
Oh, and that they did an episode called “Bad Reputation” about bad reputations without actually singing Bad Reputation was kind of sad.
I didn’t get to see it in it’s entirety but I was very distracted by Olivia Newton-John’s face. Why do people do that to themselves? Just let yourself age naturally, you don’t need beestung lips and cheekbones you can cut an apple with and it would be nice if your face actually moved.
Never heard the “Run Joey Run” song before, but I thought Santana & Britt as the angels was hilarious, and then Rachel’s big wink at the end totally messed up any serious point she was trying to make.
I’m sure there’s been lots of work done but Olivia Newton-John- still rowwwrrrr!
The video with Sue was great & Sue’s comments about she totally got screwed on the royalties.
Re Sue & her sister… something seems to have gotten in my eye. NO, I DIDN’T CHOKE UP, DAMMIT!
Since when was “Total Eclipse” a song with a bad rep? That’s practically a classic!
No, you’re right, this was seriously the worst. Does this show even have a plot anymore? It sort of went from having a simple, cliche (in a good way) plot that was mostly a thread upon which to hang the performances, and ever since it came back from its hiatus it’s pretty much turned into just a bunch of stuff that happens, and now it’s just sort of an incoherent series of weird music videos, and the songs aren’t even good.
And among all the other terrible things, Mr. Schuster is the absolute worst. He is terrible in ways I didn’t think television got terrible.
That said, whatever writers do the one-liners throughout the episodes are great. There’s a reason Facebook and Twitter are full of quotes from every episode while it’s still airing.
Best lines of the show to this point - “I will kick you square in the taco.” “It’s a date!” I liked Molly Shannon’s character; well, I didn’t like her, but I look forward to seeing her take on Sue Sylvester.
I’m not sure why I like this show (I hate musicals), and I’m not sure why the show works, but it works for me. I can see people disliking it; not to be condescending, but if it isn’t working for you, it would be a hot mess.
I sang “mullet with headlights” at the end over “turn around, bright eyes”
Not alone. I was sorely disappointed to get to the end without seeing Santana doing a Joan Jett. But this, of course, would not have been in keeping with the assignment of rehabilitating bad songs.
Puck liked Quinn, Rachel liked Finn - Puck & Rachel hooked up in hopes of making the other 2 jealous. And because they are both jewish and thought maybe they should stay jewish or go home.
Did anyone else giggle that they used “Fin” at the end of the movie - and then Rachel did the thumbs up? Because we all know she and Finn have to re-hook up, right?
I’ve noticed that the are doing the classic 80’s sitcom parallel story lines as usual. Whatever happens to the kids also happens to the adults . . .just in a different way.
