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erilynThat was pretty fucking awesome, easily one of the best episodes this season (that's somewhat damning with faint praise, I know, but it was good).
I didn't stop laughing the entire episode, and there's no way to pick the funniest line of the episode (Puck not recognising the libray? Kurt on Gap Boy's hair? The story of the 1929 Warblers? Santana's voiceover?) They spread the love around amongst the kids, used Mr Schue as comic punctuation (his best role), and I totally didn't miss Sue. Lauren rocks my world, Santana is awesome, and we got to see her and Brit out of uniform! And how freaking adorable are Rachel/Kurt/Mercedes? They need to keep that going FOREVER.
Blaine got fleshed out! He's a clueless, dorky idiot! So I can root for Kurt/Blaine more (I did before, but it was mostly cause I like Kurt being happy, thought they had chemisty, and like Darren Criss - I didn't feel like I knew Blaine at all). Kurt showed surprising maturity, first dealing with Blaine being into someone else, and then telling Blaine how he felt, in a calm way. Awww. There was weird not-resolution though with them, which is probably the best outcome you could hope for of one person saying to their friend "I thought you were gonna ask me out" and the response being "wow, I had no idea, and am completely clueless". Interesting to see how they're gonna handle this, because they've managed to keep Blaine sympathetic through the Gap Boy crush and dashing Kurt's hopes, but I hope they give them a good build for Blaine realising feelings for Kurt (if they go there, I'm just assuming that they wouldn't be stupid enough to waste one of their biggest attention getting possibilities, but this is Glee - they be pretty fucking stupid). On the other hand, I hope they don't move this at freaking GLACIAL pace. The straight kids are all kinda slutty, let the gay kids see some action.
And hah! Darren's pink sunglasses made a guest appearance, which distracted me from being torn between massive embarrassment squick while he serenaded Gap Guy, and laughing my butt off.
My biggest complaint isn't Finn/Quinn (yeah, they suck, whatever), but that Kurt wasn't singing lead on the final song. I can deal with some Warblers numbers, cause I enjoy them (love me some a cappella pop). I've learned to deal with non-main characters having some numbers, cause I feel it lessens the burden on the main cast, in terms of recording and practice time (it just drives me insane when it's like Paltrow getting 3/4 songs in an ep). But it just would have worked so much better in a number of ways for it to be a Kurt lead. If nothing else, as paralleling the shift in the dynamic, with Blaine coming down off his pedestal a bit. Plus, since it was a scene with Warblers and ND, it should have focused more on the person who is the link between the two. Plus, I love Chris's voice.
I still want Kurt back at McKinley. FREE KURT! And keep Rachel away from Finn, she's been so much more awesome since they broke up.
I didn't stop laughing the entire episode, and there's no way to pick the funniest line of the episode (Puck not recognising the libray? Kurt on Gap Boy's hair? The story of the 1929 Warblers? Santana's voiceover?) They spread the love around amongst the kids, used Mr Schue as comic punctuation (his best role), and I totally didn't miss Sue. Lauren rocks my world, Santana is awesome, and we got to see her and Brit out of uniform! And how freaking adorable are Rachel/Kurt/Mercedes? They need to keep that going FOREVER.
Blaine got fleshed out! He's a clueless, dorky idiot! So I can root for Kurt/Blaine more (I did before, but it was mostly cause I like Kurt being happy, thought they had chemisty, and like Darren Criss - I didn't feel like I knew Blaine at all). Kurt showed surprising maturity, first dealing with Blaine being into someone else, and then telling Blaine how he felt, in a calm way. Awww. There was weird not-resolution though with them, which is probably the best outcome you could hope for of one person saying to their friend "I thought you were gonna ask me out" and the response being "wow, I had no idea, and am completely clueless". Interesting to see how they're gonna handle this, because they've managed to keep Blaine sympathetic through the Gap Boy crush and dashing Kurt's hopes, but I hope they give them a good build for Blaine realising feelings for Kurt (if they go there, I'm just assuming that they wouldn't be stupid enough to waste one of their biggest attention getting possibilities, but this is Glee - they be pretty fucking stupid). On the other hand, I hope they don't move this at freaking GLACIAL pace. The straight kids are all kinda slutty, let the gay kids see some action.
And hah! Darren's pink sunglasses made a guest appearance, which distracted me from being torn between massive embarrassment squick while he serenaded Gap Guy, and laughing my butt off.
My biggest complaint isn't Finn/Quinn (yeah, they suck, whatever), but that Kurt wasn't singing lead on the final song. I can deal with some Warblers numbers, cause I enjoy them (love me some a cappella pop). I've learned to deal with non-main characters having some numbers, cause I feel it lessens the burden on the main cast, in terms of recording and practice time (it just drives me insane when it's like Paltrow getting 3/4 songs in an ep). But it just would have worked so much better in a number of ways for it to be a Kurt lead. If nothing else, as paralleling the shift in the dynamic, with Blaine coming down off his pedestal a bit. Plus, since it was a scene with Warblers and ND, it should have focused more on the person who is the link between the two. Plus, I love Chris's voice.
I still want Kurt back at McKinley. FREE KURT! And keep Rachel away from Finn, she's been so much more awesome since they broke up.
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Date: 2011-02-09 08:18 pm (UTC)