Oh Kurt, baby.
Skipped the national coming out day events today. Insert normal, predictible, and downright cliche complaints about feeling like an imposter/poseur/appropriator if I show up. (Issues all mine, I would have been welcomed, etc.) Not just that, though, it was at least 25% Introvert Shutdown. The last two months have been a solid nonstop social sprint, and I am finally hitting the wall and starting to notice the slightly wearing difficulty of being alone in New York. This is still better than the Dallas Hermit Phase, though. Introvert's quest for balance in an extrovert's world continues apace.
So TV with spaceships is terribly lacking these days, and I am left with Glee.
Tell me, how can a show so objectively terrible sometimes be so wonderful?
Or, screw that, explain this to me: how is it that 99% of the show's consistent, evolving, realistic, moving, complex character development is invested in either Kurt or Sue? It's like there are two entirely different shows. One is a surrealist extended music video thing with slapstick sketch characterization that is very entertaining but is too overproduced and doing too poor a job of juggling a too-large ensemble to ever be good... and the other is the well-acted, well-directed, well-written, absolutely moving story of our baby gay and his self-centeredness and insecurity and big heart, with occasional cameos from his dad and his cheerleading coach.
I find it inexplicable. But whatever; Kurt has a firm place in the pantheon of best TV characterizations ever, and the rest of the show can be as ridiculous and mediocre as it wants, as long as I have him.
(Episode specific aside: pseudo-atheists who are just mad at god are my great pop-culture pet peeve, and the show did a startling job of dealing with the emotions that usually lead to that writing fail and then actually allowing the characters to be - AND REMAIN! - atheist. When was the last time you saw that? No, really, when, because I want recs. I mean, WOW. TV just doesn't allow that usually. Not to mention the writing streak of letting Kurt be horrifically wrong even while he is completely and absolutely right continues. God, I love his characterization.)
In that vein, have two great (though very different) Kurt gen fics.
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So TV with spaceships is terribly lacking these days, and I am left with Glee.
Tell me, how can a show so objectively terrible sometimes be so wonderful?
Or, screw that, explain this to me: how is it that 99% of the show's consistent, evolving, realistic, moving, complex character development is invested in either Kurt or Sue? It's like there are two entirely different shows. One is a surrealist extended music video thing with slapstick sketch characterization that is very entertaining but is too overproduced and doing too poor a job of juggling a too-large ensemble to ever be good... and the other is the well-acted, well-directed, well-written, absolutely moving story of our baby gay and his self-centeredness and insecurity and big heart, with occasional cameos from his dad and his cheerleading coach.
I find it inexplicable. But whatever; Kurt has a firm place in the pantheon of best TV characterizations ever, and the rest of the show can be as ridiculous and mediocre as it wants, as long as I have him.
(Episode specific aside: pseudo-atheists who are just mad at god are my great pop-culture pet peeve, and the show did a startling job of dealing with the emotions that usually lead to that writing fail and then actually allowing the characters to be - AND REMAIN! - atheist. When was the last time you saw that? No, really, when, because I want recs. I mean, WOW. TV just doesn't allow that usually. Not to mention the writing streak of letting Kurt be horrifically wrong even while he is completely and absolutely right continues. God, I love his characterization.)
In that vein, have two great (though very different) Kurt gen fics.
This entry was originally posted at http://dragojustine.dreamwidth.org/126160.html. Please comment there using OpenID.