I know who Noel Coward was and some of his songs, but have to admit no real image forms, so I was surprised: there is a definite resemblance. I wonder if Colfer can do a convincing English accent.
I just can’t watch it anymore. Kinda makes me sad, because the show had just started when my now husband and I met, and I liked the music a bit, so it was sort of ‘our show’. I have issues mirroring many of those mentioned above, but also am confused about the whole jump on the transgender bandwagon thing with Bieste. IIRC, wasn’t an issue earlier on that Sue was, despite her outward appearance, almost a girly girl…didn’t she fall in love with a man, weren’t there episodes about her being 100pct woman despite being outwardly masculine? I know it’s expecting a lot from Glee to expect character development, but that story line arc put me over the edge. Also hate the Blaine/Kurt thing…always have. I think it’s cause Darren Criss’ character irritates me…and who the heck gets married, gay or straight before the age of 30, let alone 22, as so many of these kids are doing. Sheesh!
In four more episodes I can stop hating myself for watching this show.
You said it, buddy.
I got married at 23…
Kurt and Blaine are more like 20 and 19, I think, if that. I’m not quite sure of the chronology, but I think that Kurt graduated the year before last and Blaine the next year.
Wait a minute: please refresh my memory- Rachel came back to Lima because she’s a total flake who walked out on a hit dream role twice for a failed TV bid, but why did Kurt come back? Her nuttiness didn’t require him to drop out of NYADA too.
Maybe the final show will have Whoopi Goldberg as the opera diva who stuck her neck out for their admissions tracking them down to Lima and shooting them for not living up to her expectations, then fade into a big rendition of “They had it coming” from CHICAGO.
Kurt is doing a study internship. Apparently there is some sort of “real life” experience requirement for NYADA (with a thesis paper at the end of it) and while most, supposedly, work as interns on Broadway, Kurt is helping to running the glee club.
Ah, thanks. I missed that somehow.
Sampiro? You’re thinking, buddy.
Stop it. Stop it now. Or you’ll make your brain hurt even more.
So I probably shouldn’t even wonder about how a school would entrust its football team to a teenaged ex-stripper while the coach is getting a sex change or by what authority a Congressman can perform marriages in a state he neither represents nor is a resident of?
Just when I was about to solve the mystery of the teleporting transsexual choir (a TARDIS is involved).
At the wedding Burt said something about having gotten a license to perform marriages online, which is a pretty flimsy plot band-aid but presumably the best the writers could come up with at midnight the night before shooting on this episode began.
I’m not sure they even remember that Burt is in Congress, since that storyline was basically abandoned the moment he was elected. (Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t even used as an excuse to perform CCR’s “Fortunate Son”.) In real life I’d assume that if a sitting Congressman officiated a double same-sex wedding it would be all over the news, or at least Fox News.
I’m pretty sure it involves a malfunction of Artie’s assisted-walking device, and the rental bus that takes the club to competitions. And I’m sure there’s no rules about 2-year-past graduates hanging out on school campus, unsupervised.
Damnit.
Glee, why do I let you do this to me. Why can’t I just walk away!
LOVED the b-line plot. Jock quarterback getting told he’s a dick. Loved the twins fighting. Loved Rachel figuring out she’s a sucky teacher.
I would watch an entire season of the high-schoolers, and them NOT fitting into the molds you expect them to go in.
The Myron plotline was dumb. But at least there were no returning cast members.
I can stop hating myself in 3 episodes.
I was confused by this episode. I thought this was a show about a bunch of 20-something losers who hang around their old school all the time, but suddenly it turned into a show about the extras who’ve been standing in the background for the past month.
For the most part I thought the storylines about the new kids were okay, but at this point it seems like too little too late. It’s hard to care whether Gay Puck gets together with that other guy when the former has barely spoken before, the latter is new character introduced in this episode, and the show is ending after four more episodes. We should have been getting actual subplots about the new kids throughout the season, but instead the writers decided to waste time on that awful Becky plot, Sue kidnapping Kurt and Blaine, Kurt kind of but not really dating Harry Hamlin, Rachel’s lifeless and uninteresting romance with Sam, etc. If previous episodes had been building towards the conclusions we got here then I also would have had a much easier time believing that Roderick was now able to climb a rope and that Boy Twin was not in fact gay.
Oh, and speaking of unpleasant wastes of time, man oh man did this show not need a Cousin Oliver at this point – especially not one who’s basically an unpleasant ethnic stereotype – but I guess the writers are determined to leave no trope unexplored.
Hard to say what’s more bizarre… actually giving new characters personalities and dialog only 3 episodes before the season ends, or it being 2 weeks to sectionals and the choir still hasn’t started rehearsing their music, and only has 8 of the necessary 12 members.
That said, I enjoyed this episode more than some of the recent ones. It’s so silly that it’s kinda fun.
There’s still a good chance that they’ll be better prepared than the original New Directions were for their first Nationals competition, where their entire performance – including the composition of two original songs – was thrown together literally the night before.
When Rachel, Sam, Will, Sue, and Beiste took to the stage last night it occurred to me that they do actually have 12 members if McKinley employees and volunteers can participate…and at this point, that seems no less plausible than plenty of other things that have happened on the show already. However, the preview for next week suggested to me that they’ll quickly get several new members in a different way:Blaine said something about Dalton burning to the ground – I assume he was disposing of the corpse of the stripper he’d hired to impersonate his previously murdered mother and things got out of control – so I’m guessing the Warblers are going to merge with New Directions.
Show choirs can’t accept money, but New Directions coach has a brand new SUV and they’re funded out the wazoo. How about “We can’t accept money but you can be a booster?” Of course then there was the “he blew through the entertainment budget” part, so they can’t even keep it consistent in one episode.
Good thing for quarterback that Alistair was gay. Even so he was being a bit creepy towards him; I half expected him to smell his butt.
There’s a kid’s safety at stake so rather than have somebody who we know for a fact can easily and quickly climb up there and release him we’re going to send the guy we know can’t climb who has a fear of heights.
Of course they kind of lost me after “Stupider than an Alabama first grader”.
Gay Puck - Dammit! How did I NOT notice that. Points.
Cousin Oliver. :eek: Goddamn perfect.
Does anyone have any idea how much this show earns in terms of iTunes revenue? You gotta think that’s something that helped keep it on the air despite being a pretty lousy show overall…
…and for that reason I’m a little surprised it was canceled, with no successor in the pipeline.
I don’t know any figures, but I’m sure the show has made decent money off of music sales – Glee has had more top 40 singles than The Beatles – and other merchandise. Ratings (and quality!) have been dropping since season three, but before season five Glee was still attracting more viewers than, say, Parks & Recreation, and at that point it had already been renewed through season six. I remember reading somewhere that even though ratings were declining Glee continued to get decent numbers in “the demo” (viewers ages 18-49). It also has a devoted fanbase. I was rather surprised to learn that it’s the #1 TV show on FanFiction.net in terms of number of stories written about it…although I suppose if there’s one show on primetime network television that might make an amateur say “I could write something better than that!” then it’s Glee.