Glee, 2.17: "Night of Neglect."
* The League of Doom is the most fabulous thing to happen to Glee since Sam Evans admitting that he dyes his hair with lemons.
* Sunshine singing "All By Myself." Boring. Bored now.
* RACHEL, SHUT UP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. All of the character growth is going out the window. Again.
* ... Lauren/Mercedes. FLAILS FLAILS FLAILS. I LOVE IT. I'M JUMPING ON THIS SHIP SO HARD. LOVE IT WANTS MORE.
* ... on the other hand: oh my god, Wemma. Stop it with the fucking Wemma, Glee. Just STOP. They, like Finchel, are toxic for each other and BAD. He's being really sweet to her right now, sure, but uhm ... how long is that going to last? And how the fuck is Holly supposed to feel? ... and can we never, ever deal with Will's sham of a love life ever again? I'm sick of him.
* BAM. TAKE THAT QUINN. That is what you fucking get for neglecting Mercedes. Now go make nice, girlie.
* ... did we really need that interphobia, Glee? I get it, "hermaphrodite" sounds funnier, but ... it's offensive. And I'm really not digging on Holly's Wallace Stevens.
* did we need the "Catherine the Great fucks horses" joke? You don't have to get shit past the radar just because you can.
* Dustin is really shady. And I'm sorry, but ... Team Gay. I ship him and Sandy.
* Will Schuester is a man-child. Bored now.
* dkfsjegh, Klainofsky scene. unf. ... just unf. ... and, uhm. As much as I want to punch Brad Falchuk for calling Santana a lesbian when she is clearly a homoromantic bisexual, sdkfsjgh, can she stay forever. I want her. I need her. I love her so so much.
* TIIIIINA. D: ASLFKSHRGHTKDGJGHGHETLADFLSJEG3LADKRGQEJBGRBQGNN. TIIIIIIINAAAAAAAA. MY CRYING IS INFINITE.
* ds,fmfgjanjh MIKE CHANG.
* ............ this is actually a great critique of the way that Internet anonymity makes people act like assholes.
* .................................................... OH MY GOD. AZIMIO HAS A MAN CRUSH ON MARK HARMON. LIFE. LIFE LIFE WHAT - WHAT IS AIR. (On a side note, this makes it totally plausible for Azimio to be like, "Yeah? So? You're my boy," whenever Dave comes stumbling out of the closet. And either Dave is Azimio's, "If It's You, It's Okay," or ... he uses homophobic slurs and acts like a dick, but he's not really a homophobe ... just a raging misogynist jerkass who hates Kurt. ... God, I want to write fic of Dave and Azimio talking this out now.)
* "You are a really terrible person, you know that?" "You sound like my court-appointed therapist." ahahaha. It would be kind of hilarious for Blaine and Sandy to have more scenes together. Blaine would be all, "SERIOUSLY WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM." and Sandy would be all, "So you and Kurt Hummell, huh? Well isn't that so precious - it's in fact so sweet that I need to go and vomit rainbows." And Blaine's caring and Sandy's laser-guided, spiteful apathy would explode like when matter meets antimatter.
* And Holly has a solo. Bored now. Musically underwhelming and there's not even some DRAMATIC EDITING! to make up for it. At least there's a lack of autotune. Thank god.
* "You just got poked. Poked by the Dagger." Oh, Sandy. Never change. He's so ineffective, but so lovely.
* GOD MERCEDES WHY SO FABULOUS.
* WHERE DID THE GOSPEL CHOIR COME FROM? HAVE THEY JUST BEEN WAITING THERE SINCE "LIKE A PRAYER"?
* Rachel, are you going to whipsaw back and forth between being terrible and sweet EVERY episode? Because that's going to get very tiring very quickly, little miss. ... And I'm really not sure I appreciate how Sunshine's character has basically become, "She's RACHEL! But ASIAN! And on a QUIZ BOWL TEAM! Because she's ASIAN!!"
* ugh. Go the fuck away, Will/Holly. Adult drama is not something Glee does well. At all. I really love Holly for telling Will that she's not going to be his second-choice, and they'll probably make amazing friends and all, but ... I am so sick to death of Will's romances. If we're not actually going to deal with Will/Terri in a way that doesn't completely villainize and demean her, then Will can effectively be a monk. You do not get sex, Will. You do not get to have it, or to have sexuality. You get to be king of celibacy island until Finn is eighteen. Then you can comfort him after he finds out that his girlfriend (or whatever Quinn is, at that point) is a pressed lemon of ridiculous proportions.
* ... that said, I'm really excited to see her turn it out as Honey Badger. YOU FUCKING GO, TERRI. FOUR FOR YOU, TERRI DELMONICO. YOU GO, TERRI DELMONICO!
* I am still offended at the interphobia of using "hermaphrodite." But that brick joke was awesome.
* Also, uhm. ... Aren't there supposed to be states before nationals? And wouldn't Nude Erections be squaring off against Vocal Adrenaline at states? Since they are both from Ohio? JUST WONDERING.
Overall: Decent episode. Not great, not stellar, but also not terrible. Tina's and Mercedes's numbers were fantastic, but Sunshine and Holly were way too oversold. I'm unimpressed. The whole episode just feels like they're filling space until next week's ninety minutes of Gaga and "Born This Way" and putting Dave in the limelight, which ... well. They pretty much are. They're setting up some stuff for the rest of the season/going into s3, and they're reminding us that Dave Karofsky is the biggest closet case on the block; everything else is a bunch of YMMV because it's obviously just a ploy to fill 42 minutes. I liked Blaine's comment that Kurt misses his ND peeps because it means his transfer back to McKinley won't just be coming out of nowhere, and I appreciated the fact that DESPITE WHAT ALL THE DALTON HATERS THINK, transferring there has clearly been good for Kurt. Santana might have saved the day in the corridor, but Kurt wasn't nearly as afraid of Dave as he was right before he transferred. CLEARLY, HE HAS DISCOVERED SOME INNER STRENGTH AND NOT "LOST HIMSELF" THE WAY THAT THE ANTI-DALTON FACTION WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE.
And I'm a heartless wretch who doesn't really care that Pavarotti is dead. Eh. Viva le Klaine.
I'm also ... not particularly enthused about the "Born This Way" element of next week's Glee. It's personal distaste, I guess, but ... the song is musically kind of awful; it's "Waterfalls" and "Express Yourself" mashed up with new lyrics. And the lyrics are pretty damn offensive, across the board. Good intentions, sure. "Let's make an anthem for everyone who's bullied and oppressed and tell them they're awesome!" ... but the execution is such bullshit. List of complaints: racism, transphobia, bisexual-erasure, oh and the whole "born this way" conceit and how it blatantly ignores the social context of everything.
The actual episode content might be pretty good. And it's not like I'm going to say "no" to listening to Darren Criss sing. ... I just wish it didn't have to happen with freaking "Born This Way." Pick another damn song about self-acceptance, Glee. It's not like there's a shortage of them out there. (Okay, sure, they've already covered two of the three the major current ones with "Firework" and "Raise Your Glass," and I don't think "We think misspelling shit makes us look cool R Who We R" should be sung by Ke$ha let alone by anyone else ... but. "Born This Way"? Really?)
Unrelatedly: I want to make "Going Through The Motions" from Buffy's Once More With Feeling into one of my theme songs. Sooner or later, I should just compile a mix of my theme songs to share with folks. I wonder how Buffy, Blink-182, Amanda Palmer, and the rest would sound, playing back to back.
* Sunshine singing "All By Myself." Boring. Bored now.
* RACHEL, SHUT UP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. All of the character growth is going out the window. Again.
* ... Lauren/Mercedes. FLAILS FLAILS FLAILS. I LOVE IT. I'M JUMPING ON THIS SHIP SO HARD. LOVE IT WANTS MORE.
* ... on the other hand: oh my god, Wemma. Stop it with the fucking Wemma, Glee. Just STOP. They, like Finchel, are toxic for each other and BAD. He's being really sweet to her right now, sure, but uhm ... how long is that going to last? And how the fuck is Holly supposed to feel? ... and can we never, ever deal with Will's sham of a love life ever again? I'm sick of him.
* BAM. TAKE THAT QUINN. That is what you fucking get for neglecting Mercedes. Now go make nice, girlie.
* ... did we really need that interphobia, Glee? I get it, "hermaphrodite" sounds funnier, but ... it's offensive. And I'm really not digging on Holly's Wallace Stevens.
* did we need the "Catherine the Great fucks horses" joke? You don't have to get shit past the radar just because you can.
* Dustin is really shady. And I'm sorry, but ... Team Gay. I ship him and Sandy.
* Will Schuester is a man-child. Bored now.
* dkfsjegh, Klainofsky scene. unf. ... just unf. ... and, uhm. As much as I want to punch Brad Falchuk for calling Santana a lesbian when she is clearly a homoromantic bisexual, sdkfsjgh, can she stay forever. I want her. I need her. I love her so so much.
* TIIIIINA. D: ASLFKSHRGHTKDGJGHGHETLADFLSJEG3LADKRGQEJBGRBQGNN. TIIIIIIINAAAAAAAA. MY CRYING IS INFINITE.
* ds,fmfgjanjh MIKE CHANG.
* ............ this is actually a great critique of the way that Internet anonymity makes people act like assholes.
* .................................................... OH MY GOD. AZIMIO HAS A MAN CRUSH ON MARK HARMON. LIFE. LIFE LIFE WHAT - WHAT IS AIR. (On a side note, this makes it totally plausible for Azimio to be like, "Yeah? So? You're my boy," whenever Dave comes stumbling out of the closet. And either Dave is Azimio's, "If It's You, It's Okay," or ... he uses homophobic slurs and acts like a dick, but he's not really a homophobe ... just a raging misogynist jerkass who hates Kurt. ... God, I want to write fic of Dave and Azimio talking this out now.)
* "You are a really terrible person, you know that?" "You sound like my court-appointed therapist." ahahaha. It would be kind of hilarious for Blaine and Sandy to have more scenes together. Blaine would be all, "SERIOUSLY WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM." and Sandy would be all, "So you and Kurt Hummell, huh? Well isn't that so precious - it's in fact so sweet that I need to go and vomit rainbows." And Blaine's caring and Sandy's laser-guided, spiteful apathy would explode like when matter meets antimatter.
* And Holly has a solo. Bored now. Musically underwhelming and there's not even some DRAMATIC EDITING! to make up for it. At least there's a lack of autotune. Thank god.
* "You just got poked. Poked by the Dagger." Oh, Sandy. Never change. He's so ineffective, but so lovely.
* GOD MERCEDES WHY SO FABULOUS.
* WHERE DID THE GOSPEL CHOIR COME FROM? HAVE THEY JUST BEEN WAITING THERE SINCE "LIKE A PRAYER"?
* Rachel, are you going to whipsaw back and forth between being terrible and sweet EVERY episode? Because that's going to get very tiring very quickly, little miss. ... And I'm really not sure I appreciate how Sunshine's character has basically become, "She's RACHEL! But ASIAN! And on a QUIZ BOWL TEAM! Because she's ASIAN!!"
* ugh. Go the fuck away, Will/Holly. Adult drama is not something Glee does well. At all. I really love Holly for telling Will that she's not going to be his second-choice, and they'll probably make amazing friends and all, but ... I am so sick to death of Will's romances. If we're not actually going to deal with Will/Terri in a way that doesn't completely villainize and demean her, then Will can effectively be a monk. You do not get sex, Will. You do not get to have it, or to have sexuality. You get to be king of celibacy island until Finn is eighteen. Then you can comfort him after he finds out that his girlfriend (or whatever Quinn is, at that point) is a pressed lemon of ridiculous proportions.
* ... that said, I'm really excited to see her turn it out as Honey Badger. YOU FUCKING GO, TERRI. FOUR FOR YOU, TERRI DELMONICO. YOU GO, TERRI DELMONICO!
* I am still offended at the interphobia of using "hermaphrodite." But that brick joke was awesome.
* Also, uhm. ... Aren't there supposed to be states before nationals? And wouldn't Nude Erections be squaring off against Vocal Adrenaline at states? Since they are both from Ohio? JUST WONDERING.
Overall: Decent episode. Not great, not stellar, but also not terrible. Tina's and Mercedes's numbers were fantastic, but Sunshine and Holly were way too oversold. I'm unimpressed. The whole episode just feels like they're filling space until next week's ninety minutes of Gaga and "Born This Way" and putting Dave in the limelight, which ... well. They pretty much are. They're setting up some stuff for the rest of the season/going into s3, and they're reminding us that Dave Karofsky is the biggest closet case on the block; everything else is a bunch of YMMV because it's obviously just a ploy to fill 42 minutes. I liked Blaine's comment that Kurt misses his ND peeps because it means his transfer back to McKinley won't just be coming out of nowhere, and I appreciated the fact that DESPITE WHAT ALL THE DALTON HATERS THINK, transferring there has clearly been good for Kurt. Santana might have saved the day in the corridor, but Kurt wasn't nearly as afraid of Dave as he was right before he transferred. CLEARLY, HE HAS DISCOVERED SOME INNER STRENGTH AND NOT "LOST HIMSELF" THE WAY THAT THE ANTI-DALTON FACTION WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE.
And I'm a heartless wretch who doesn't really care that Pavarotti is dead. Eh. Viva le Klaine.
I'm also ... not particularly enthused about the "Born This Way" element of next week's Glee. It's personal distaste, I guess, but ... the song is musically kind of awful; it's "Waterfalls" and "Express Yourself" mashed up with new lyrics. And the lyrics are pretty damn offensive, across the board. Good intentions, sure. "Let's make an anthem for everyone who's bullied and oppressed and tell them they're awesome!" ... but the execution is such bullshit. List of complaints: racism, transphobia, bisexual-erasure, oh and the whole "born this way" conceit and how it blatantly ignores the social context of everything.
The actual episode content might be pretty good. And it's not like I'm going to say "no" to listening to Darren Criss sing. ... I just wish it didn't have to happen with freaking "Born This Way." Pick another damn song about self-acceptance, Glee. It's not like there's a shortage of them out there. (Okay, sure, they've already covered two of the three the major current ones with "Firework" and "Raise Your Glass," and I don't think "We think misspelling shit makes us look cool R Who We R" should be sung by Ke$ha let alone by anyone else ... but. "Born This Way"? Really?)
Unrelatedly: I want to make "Going Through The Motions" from Buffy's Once More With Feeling into one of my theme songs. Sooner or later, I should just compile a mix of my theme songs to share with folks. I wonder how Buffy, Blink-182, Amanda Palmer, and the rest would sound, playing back to back.