I also find it interesting with a show like this, which is intentionally over the top, which elements I find to be lovable conceits (Blaine can attend no matter where he actually lives) and which I find absurd (Sue still hates Glee club).
The commercial for next weeks hows Idina Menzel returning. I wonder if that means skanky Quinn will only last for an episode.
Liked Will growing a set and telling Santana to leave.
Santana’s line about how she doesn’t have a problem working with people of odd numbered chromosomes (or whatever it was) was also pretty good.
Someone on Twitter objected to the Asperger’s schtick as offensive to people with autism – I didn’t take it that way at all, I thought she was using it as an excuse to be an asshole, not that she actually had Asperger’s.
Whaddya think?
Totally agree, I thought she was insufferable on TGP but her acting and singing were both well-suited to the Glee universe and I was actually pretty impressed. I suppose you have no idea what the other actors are like “in real life;” they may all be miserable #$(@* too 
During the spring there were articles in the media saying that the characters who were seniors (Finn, Rachel and Kurt, primarily) would be written out at the end of this season. The actors who played those characters were then interviewed expressing surprise at this, saying that this was the first they were hearing of it. Then, I saw something supposedly from the show creator, Ryan Murphy saying, in effect, “What are they talking about? I talked to them about this. In fact I was thinking of creating a spin-off show that would take the characters to Julliard in New York. But now that they’ve insulted me by pretending that I surprised them with this, screw them. I’m not doing the spin-off show.”
So was the scene in which Emma told Kurt and Rachel that Julliard didn’t have a musical theater program meant to kill that idea? Or given that she mentioned another New York arts school, are they still going to send the characters to New York, but attending a fictional institution?
Definitely sounds like a set-up for a spinoff since NY Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fictional place with a real sounding name. (American Academy of Dramatic Arts is real and one of the oldest continuously operated acting schools on Earth.)
Ryan Murphy sounds like a thin skinned bitch, not just in this but in lots of other interviews. If Chris Colfer insulted him he’d probably call it homophobia.
A pity Kurt is dating Blaine since he had a smorgasbord of alternate boyfriends to choose from last night: Gavroche, Canada, and whatever the other names were. Of course the Kurt:Blaine breakup is one you can see coming as a story arc from way back.
I think it was bold of the show to show someone who uses Asperger’s as an excuse to be an asshole. I’m sure there is more than one person in the world who is doing this, and it is moot whether they actually have Asperger’s or not; who would ever call them on that? It’s also possible that the show was taking a run at parents who use Asperger’s/ADD/ADHD as an excuse to not actually parent their kids.
Did I hear Mr. Shue say, “…I should have did it…”? Not the best of grammar for a teacher.
Songs were pretty good - nothing spectacular (although the group that shocked Rachel and Kurt was very good!). Was a nice touch to give Rachel and Kurt a dose of reality - anyone who has ever thought they were hot stuff in high school gets that rude awakening at some point, and they did that scene quite well.
Glad to hear them say who was a senior, as Finn now looks like he is about 32 years old. If they keep him in high school any longer, he has to start going to remedial classes and learn the meaning of pedophilia.
Puck is really looking too old for a high schooler also.
Faux Asperger’s girl is the daughter of the man who donated the pianos so I’m guessing they’re going to have to work her into the Glee club to get his patronage.
In June of this year, 88 pianos were placed outdoors throughout New York; last year they did the same thing, only with 60 pianos.
Quinn actually lit the fire, but the whole scheme was orchestrated by Santana.
I thought it was pretty clear she was just using it as an excuse – she said she was self-diagnosed. But she did claim to have Asperger’s more than once in the episode, so if someone missed the line about being self-diagnosed I can understand that they might think she was really meant to have Asperger’s.
I remember this, and it seemed like a big to-do over nothing – and was possibly even planned as such by Ryan Murphy, who does truly seem to believe there’s no such thing as bad publicity. He also seems to run his mouth off without thinking though, so it’s anyone’s guess.
Murphy didn’t go quite so far as to say he was killing the spin-off because the actors insulted him, though. It was something more like the incident made him decide to focus more on Glee and his other current projects, and while there are no current plans to move forward with the spin-off it’s not a definite no. He also said at least one of the actors didn’t want to move to NYC.
I think the actors were put in a really awkward position with Murphy saying they were going to graduate and be off the show (at Comic Con the other creators corrected this and said that graduation did not necessarily mean the end of Kurt, Rachel, and Finn on Glee), because they were apparently also sworn to secrecy about the prospective spin-off. So it wasn’t like they could have just said “No worries, we’re leaving Glee to do Glee: The College Years!”
MTV’s Jim Cantiello is back already with his “Glee-caps”, in which he reviews the most recent episode in song.
I was under the impression that the preview was for upcoming episodes, not just next week’s show. Sometimes they do that.
Remember how he went off on that guy that wouldn’t let him use a song? Sheesh!
Though with Finn and Puck (and Brittany, too) they could easily have them get held back if they really needed to keep them on the show longer.
I was mainly surprised to find out Artie and Tina are only juniors. While it makes sense that the club wouldn’t be all the same year, it still seems weird that it never got mentioned before that they were younger than the rest.
Also, it was pretty weird for Lucy Caboosy to set the piano on fire. Why’s she helping Santana sabotage the club if she’s not even interested in getting back into the Cheerios and just wants to be a loser burn out?
Kurt claims he doesn’t have extracurriculars, despite having stints on both the football team and the Cherrios, not to mention, hello, what is glee club? It’s sure not an academic course (as Sue’s subplot of the moment points out).
Since it’s been pretty well established that Blaine is a millennia old pagan god who keeps the students at the Dalton School in terror and forces them to be his back up singers, I wonder if they’re going to mention that Dalton is now a smoldering hole in the Earth or that the other Warblers went running as fast as they could when he left campus to go seek his bride.
It did seem like a scene was missing there or something, but she could plausibly have agreed to set the piano on fire just to be a bad ass.
I think he meant extracurriculars aside from glee club, but yeah, I was also thinking “You were on the football team AND the cheerleading squad! And you and Karofsky were going to establish a PFLAG chapter!” I don’t know if being Prom Queen counts as an honor/extracurricular activity since he didn’t actually want it or campaign for it, but that alone would be a hell of an application essay. Blah blah blah the night of junior prom, blah blah blah humiliation, blah blah blah marched back in with my head held high, blah blah blah support of my family, friends, and boyfriend, blah blah blah in conclusion we all learned something important that night.
I was also wondering if we’ve seen the last of the Warblers. I figure either 1) they will never be spoken of again or 2) they will reappear seeking to destroy Kurt, New Directions, and anything else that stands between them and Blaine.
Alternately, it will be revealed that Kurt fell asleep watching Dead Poet’s Society some time around “Duets”, and everything since then has been a really long, vivid dream. He wakes up, goes into the bathroom, and finds Sam in the shower.
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I was very ‘meh’ about it. A lot of stuff is getting really old. This is how many times Sue has promised to lay-off the glee club only to hate them again?
-The hundredth time she’s should have been fired.
-Why does the school still hate the club? I mean, even in a non-podunk school even getting to nationals would be a huge deal.
-What happened to Jessie?
I did like Kurt and Rachel getting to see what being in a big pond is like. I also liked that they mentioned the person who replaced Will in the Broadway show won a Tony. Will was idiotic for giving up that gig, he should be made to feel ashamed.
I’m drawing a blank – who’s Jessie? (sign that the cast is way too big!)
Jonathan Groff’s character- Rachel’s (way too gay for straight) brief boyfriend.
I think it’s time for Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris to do another episode.
I figure the finale of “Glee” will fade to a 28 year old Kurt in bed in some rundown fleabag apartment, talking to some bored looking trick he picked up, “And that’s the whole story, as I prefer to remember it, of my high school glee club experience. Ohmigod, I’m late for my shift at the coffee shop, gotta run!”