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erilynWell, that was a hot buttered mess. Started off quite amusing, devolved into a giant unappealing wreck. And I'm clearly using the icon ironically.
Loved: the Glee Babies hallucinations, Principal Sue taking over the school, Coach Bieste's comeback to Sue's attempt to disband the football team, and I actually started off enjoying Gwyneth Paltrow, which I didn't expect to. And there was classic Glee one-liners like the whole broccoli routine, Rachel wanting to know what solos everyone wanted her to sing (and Santana's reaction!)
Forget You was fun (I've never heard either version of Cee-Lo's Fuck You or Forget You), though I was confused by Kurt being so into it that he was the first up dancing. Quite often when there's a choir room sing-and-dance-along number, Kurt sits on the sideline looking disdainful, but Rachel got that role today. The whole buttered floor, with the combo punch of their pratfalls, cracked me up.
Make 'Em Laugh was pretty awesome, a great tribute to Donald O'Connor's magical routine in one of the greatest movie musicals of ALL TIME.
Hated: the way the episode ended up. Mercedes got a plotline and it was that tater tot SHIT? Kurt and Mercedes had friendship trouble because he's distracted by a boy - this is classic teenage drama, totally realistic, but they ended up with the wrong lecture - wtf was the shit from Kurt? Mercedes should have been slapping him upside the head and saying "yeah, your boy is fine, you should hit that, but don't forget about your friends, fucktard". Though Mercedes, that boy looked hot and interested, don't be so quick to reject. The Cameo scene was vile (and completely undercut a perfectly good joke about getting punched in the face).
Bummed that we didn't get to see more of Kurt and Blaine getting to know each other, that they're already very friendly. Though the one scene with him was very over-the-top and seen through the POV of an unreliable narrator (plus Glee doesn't know the meaning of continuity), so I'm not taking that as gospel to how their future interaction will be.
The whole substitute plot and Paltrow's character just went nowhere, and ended up annoying and all over the place, and she got way too many songs (I thought the Chenowith eps were bad! but GP was lead on 3 of the eps 4 songs). The Will/Terri stuff ended up being completely ick. At first, I wasn't hating on it, thought it interesting to see them interacting, and whether she was less screwed up but...no. As much as I like the actress, I hope that is the last time we see her (but I'm betting it isn't).
I can't imagine why I would ever watch that godawful sacrilegious Umbrella mash-up defilement of Singing in the Rain ever again. Except maybe muted. Ok, so I'll never listen to it again. Actually, the only song I think I'll download is Forget You, and I suspect it's not gonna be as much fun listening as it was watching.
Scenes from a different show: I think the tonal shifts into the creepiness and menace of the Karofsky scenes kinda worked for me.
Confused: I'm trying to figure out Kurt and Mercedes' first conversation about Blaine. When she's telling him to come clean, at first I thought she meant to her about whether they're dating, but then it seems she's talking about to the Glee club? And what does he say about the Rachel/Jesse traitor scenario - that "were not a..." or "we don't need a..." - I cannot tell what Chris Colfer says and its driving me nuts.
And now I think I'll go watch Teenage Dream for the thousandth time.
Loved: the Glee Babies hallucinations, Principal Sue taking over the school, Coach Bieste's comeback to Sue's attempt to disband the football team, and I actually started off enjoying Gwyneth Paltrow, which I didn't expect to. And there was classic Glee one-liners like the whole broccoli routine, Rachel wanting to know what solos everyone wanted her to sing (and Santana's reaction!)
Forget You was fun (I've never heard either version of Cee-Lo's Fuck You or Forget You), though I was confused by Kurt being so into it that he was the first up dancing. Quite often when there's a choir room sing-and-dance-along number, Kurt sits on the sideline looking disdainful, but Rachel got that role today. The whole buttered floor, with the combo punch of their pratfalls, cracked me up.
Make 'Em Laugh was pretty awesome, a great tribute to Donald O'Connor's magical routine in one of the greatest movie musicals of ALL TIME.
Hated: the way the episode ended up. Mercedes got a plotline and it was that tater tot SHIT? Kurt and Mercedes had friendship trouble because he's distracted by a boy - this is classic teenage drama, totally realistic, but they ended up with the wrong lecture - wtf was the shit from Kurt? Mercedes should have been slapping him upside the head and saying "yeah, your boy is fine, you should hit that, but don't forget about your friends, fucktard". Though Mercedes, that boy looked hot and interested, don't be so quick to reject. The Cameo scene was vile (and completely undercut a perfectly good joke about getting punched in the face).
Bummed that we didn't get to see more of Kurt and Blaine getting to know each other, that they're already very friendly. Though the one scene with him was very over-the-top and seen through the POV of an unreliable narrator (plus Glee doesn't know the meaning of continuity), so I'm not taking that as gospel to how their future interaction will be.
The whole substitute plot and Paltrow's character just went nowhere, and ended up annoying and all over the place, and she got way too many songs (I thought the Chenowith eps were bad! but GP was lead on 3 of the eps 4 songs). The Will/Terri stuff ended up being completely ick. At first, I wasn't hating on it, thought it interesting to see them interacting, and whether she was less screwed up but...no. As much as I like the actress, I hope that is the last time we see her (but I'm betting it isn't).
I can't imagine why I would ever watch that godawful sacrilegious Umbrella mash-up defilement of Singing in the Rain ever again. Except maybe muted. Ok, so I'll never listen to it again. Actually, the only song I think I'll download is Forget You, and I suspect it's not gonna be as much fun listening as it was watching.
Scenes from a different show: I think the tonal shifts into the creepiness and menace of the Karofsky scenes kinda worked for me.
Confused: I'm trying to figure out Kurt and Mercedes' first conversation about Blaine. When she's telling him to come clean, at first I thought she meant to her about whether they're dating, but then it seems she's talking about to the Glee club? And what does he say about the Rachel/Jesse traitor scenario - that "were not a..." or "we don't need a..." - I cannot tell what Chris Colfer says and its driving me nuts.
And now I think I'll go watch Teenage Dream for the thousandth time.
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Date: 2010-11-17 02:04 pm (UTC)Also I hated Mercedes storyline in this just as you said. But my biggest beef was the tater tot thing. Really, we give the girl with the weight issues a story about how she is causing problems at school because they took away tater tots? I find it a little insulting.
The Terry/Will storyline was creepy and nothing was resolved with the Holly Holiday storyline. She showed up, took over the show and moved on never to be heard from again except that now we know more about her than we do half the kids in Glee.
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Date: 2010-11-17 07:19 pm (UTC)And you're right, perhaps they should have had Will sing and just let Harry Shum go full out.
She showed up, took over the show and moved on never to be heard from again except that now we know more about her than we do half the kids in Glee.
A constant problem with their celebrity guest stars!