You don’t think it will end with middle-aged [del]Ryan Murphy[/del] Kurt pitching a show about a show choir to FOX?
Thinking back over the premier, not for the first time I’m feeling like Glee might be a better show if it were only half an hour long. Cut pretty much everything about the adults (I care even less about Will’s love life than I did about the love lives of my actual high school teachers) and the whole weird piano thing and this would have been a pretty solid episode. I liked all the songs, which was a welcome change from most of Season Two.
They’ve hired new writers this season, which is to say “additional” writers as most if not all of the first two seasons were written by Murphy and his two co-creators. I like the show and I try to remember “it’s primarily aimed at a teenaged demographic” but suspension of disbelief has gotten out of hand a couple of times: Arnie on the football team (the biggest WTF moment for me- even with a file cabinet full of disclaimers no coach would let that happen), Sue knocking a rival glee club coach down the stairs (he’d have her arrested for battery the second she left), the gang going to NYC to regionals having no idea what they were going to sing and in fact not having written it yet (I’d have personally fired Schuester for that if I’d been Figgins- in addition to incompetence it’s a near narcissistic arrogance indicative of an unbalanced mind to think you’re so great you could take them with no rehearsal).
OTOH, they don’t seem to be adding much realism so far. I’m not saying it needs to be exactly true to real life of course, but fewer “Bitch please” moments of lazy writing that would make the writers of Suite Life on Deck (assuming it has writers) say “that’s just stupid” would be better.
I know you’re joking, but the right writer could actually pull that off. I agree that the “NY Academy of Dramatic Arts” sounds like groundwork for a possible spinoff (one that I’d love to see), but I wish Emma didn’t mention they only took in “20 students a year”. Then again it would be far from being the least plausible thing in the series if 3 students, all from the same public high school were admited. Just how many colleges in NYC have musical theatre programs anyway? What about the CUNY schools?
Yeah, all the hate for New Directions is getting really fucking old. I’m not saying ND should suddenly become popular, but some indifference would be nice. Also we need more skin scenes from the male actors. Sure Sam’s gone, but Finn, Mike Chang, & Puck are still here. Blaine’s a hottie and even Kurt is getting cuter & more masculine looking.
I’m not particulary excited about the apparent upcoming arc re Quinn, Shelby, & the baby, but will withould judgement until I see it. They’ve already covered teen pregnancy, but it would be really interesting if they’d do it again only to have the girl in question chose the other a-word. If Rachel got pregnany I think she’d do it in a heartbeat. That would lead to all kinds of drama with Finn. Not gonna happen on American network TV though.
Yeah, I like Glee a lot, but I think anyone more discerning than Brittany has made this face :rolleyes: while watching the show.
Some of the things that aren’t truly realistic are at least realistic to the feeling of being a teenager, something that Glee in its better moments captures in a way unlike anything else I’ve ever seen on television. Other things I can accept as just being part of the cartoonish universe the show is set in. But this:
still makes me angry. Not only had we been hearing in every episode for weeks about how important it was that they get ready for Nationals only to find they’d done NOTHING to prepare, but having everyone be okay with throwing a routine together at the last minute undermines the whole premise of the show. If we’re to believe that these characters care about performing, that they want to be taken seriously as a competitive show choir, or even that they just think it’s fun to sing and dance, then a major performance can’t be treated as an afterthought. There wasn’t even any dramatic reason for it to happen this way. I don’t see that the story gained anything by having them arrive in NYC with no routine, and there was no real tension about whether they’d get something together in time because of course they were going to.
Judging from this latest episode, we’re apparently still expected to believe that New Directions blew their shot at winning (or at least making the top 10) because Finn kissed Rachel onstage and not because they hadn’t rehearsed at all, they gave a solo to one of their weakest performers, and their original songs were lousy. :rolleyes:
I continue to hold out hope for this season, though.
Well, I liked skanky Quinn. A neat turn for her character, which had been floundering last season. (Way better than the out-of-nowhere Lucy Caboosey development). And not unrealistic. Teens change their attitude fast, and can switch cliques at the drop of a hat. After what Quinn went through trying to be Ms. Perfect and Popular, I can totally imagine her saying, screw it, I’ll go the opposite way instead. Hope it sticks, at least for a while.
Does Blaine have parents at all? He can just decide to switch schools whenever?
The Rachel and Kurt clones were pretty funny. I was surprised to see the Glee Project girl so soon, but I guess the Glee Project filmed a while back.
If I’m not mistaken, I think that girl and the crossdressing guy were promised 2-episode stints, so we may not have seen the last of doppel-Rachel.
I’d lost interest so much toward the end of last season, I completely forgot the Will and Emma were back together. The matching lunchboxes were cute, as was Emma’s line quoted above.
The piano thing was lame. Sue back to mean Sue mode even while acknowledging the funeral detente was lame.
But there were enough good moments to keep me coming back for now. The songs were good for the most part. The “pepperoni” line had me in stitches. (Though my wife pointed out that with Brittany’s complexion, that would probably be some pale pepperoni.) The Santana/Becky rivalry is oddly intriguing. Nice to see Tina out of her goth phase… those costumes were not flattering at all.
Am I the only one who wishes the camera would spend more time on Brittany when she’s dancing? Clearly, she’s an excellent dancer. You wouldn’t guess it by her facial expressions during the acting scenes but there’s passion there.
Look guys, all the scenes you see of “Blaine” are just Kurt’s fantasies. Yeah, there’s a super-hot guy named Blaine who goes to another school, but Kurt has never actually spoken to him, just watched him from a distance once when Blaine made out with his cheerleader girlfriend.
Hey, isn’t one of the new writers a veteran of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I was not a fan of that show, and thanks to Twilight the teen vampire romance subgenre has really been overdone lately, but the revelation that Blaine is a vampire (possibly dating a cheerleader/Slayer) would actually make more sense than some of the things that happened on Glee last season.
