On My Way epic commentary
Wordcount: 2,091 o.o
And right off the bat, I have commentary. Kurt, why are you looking at wedding dresses with Rachel, if you're against the marriage? Don't disappoint me and have changed your opinion all of a sudden. =/
Kurt: “Yes, timeless. Meaning you can wait 2 to 5 years to wear it.”
Alright, thank you. You have redeemed yourself. ;P
Sebastian: “Well, well, well. If it isn't a young Barbra Streisand and an old Betty White.”
...Does he realize he kind of just complimented both of them? In a VERY backhanded way, but still. Young Barbra Streisand had her whole career ahead of her, and "old Betty White" has withstood the test of time, and now is receiving awards and guest appearances and her own EVERYTHING left and right. Because Betty White is just AWESOME. And clearly, so is Kurt. *in your face, Sebastian!*
Meerkat smirk.
Sebastian: “…where is gay Cyclops?”
D=< Oh no you didn’t!
Kurt: “We can’t come here anymore.”
Rachel: “Those were photoshopped! His thing is not that small! …or brown.”
Kurt: “And he could never fit into those pumps.”
Yes, always the realistic one, Kurt, looking at the (only) fashion in the picture. ;P (I also like the fact that he knows how big Finn’s feet are, that he wouldn’t be able to fit into them.)
In light of what I know happens later, these two lines shouldn’t be funny…but they still are. *is a horrible person*
Sugar: “If someone posted photos like that of me online, I’d probably kill myself.”
Rory: “Twice to make sure I was dead.”
OK, let’s have some Sugar/Rory love (I don’t even know what their ship name is…& I’m kind of afraid to find out. <.<)
…do I have to watch, like, ANY of the Sue scenes? Because I kind of really don’t want to. I don’t like where they’re going with the whole pregnancy thing. Can we NOT turn everything into a joke, maybe?
And why is she telling Quinn, like, ANY of this, anyway? I know, she’s getting there, but just, WOW, completely inappropriate. Not that Sue or the Glee writers ever seems to care.
…Wow, what pregnancy books did you read, Quinn? Morning sickness kind of has nothing to do with the actual baby, and more to do with hormone levels. Some people have perfectly healthy babies and never experience morning sickness at all (I know-lucky bitches). (Also I read somewhere that doctors/scientists think it has to do with a certain bacteria that lives in the stomach, that not every woman has. No idea where I read it, & it was years ago so I can’t really go searching for it… =/)
OK, nice!Sue is creepy. So glad she went back to being her usual self after only 3 minutes.
…nnng, Karofsky. Ugh. So don’t want to watch this. For a variety of reasons.
Will: “Facebook…Twitter…Tumblr…” THEY’RE ONTO US!
Figgins: “It wasn’t our job to know.”
Emma: “Then whose job was it?”
…oh, fuck you, Glee. Did NOT expect to cry during this part of the episode. Thanks so much, Emma.
Alright, Quinn’s wrong about what motivated him (“He didn’t just want to hurt himself, he wanted to hurt everyone around him”)-alright, maybe she’s not necessarily wrong, sometimes that IS part of the suicidal thought process-but from what I understand, suicide is a cardinal sin, and one of the very few things that Catholics don’t believe you can be forgiven for. So while her opinion of not praying for Karofsky can be seen as cold-hearted, I see where she’s coming from. A better idea she could have had would be praying for Karofsky to realize the error of his thinking. /raised Christian
Quinn: “I think we should start today’s meeting praying for his family. They could use comfort more than he could.” […] “I feel sorry for Karofsky. But what he did was selfish. He didn’t just want to hurt himself, he wanted to hurt everyone around him. I went through the ringer, but I never got to that place.”
Kurt: “Quinn, please. Sure, you had a baby when you were sixteen, and you had a bad dye job for two weeks. But seriously? The world never stopped loving you. And you’re going to Yale. You have no idea what Karofsky was struggling with.”
Quinn: “You really wanna try to compare-"
Kurt: “The despair? The self-loathing?”
Quinn: “It doesn’t matter. I just can’t imagine things getting so messed up that you would consider taking your own life.”
Kurt: 1
Quinn: 0
Also, there’s a whole silent exchange between Kurt and Quinn, that you might only really notice if you watch it almost frame by frame/shot by shot, like I had to as I was transcribing the above quotes. You kind of get the idea, the way Kurt’s talking, that he has felt what Dave has. But then Quinn gives him this look when she says that last line, like she realizes it too, and she’s silently calling him out on it. Silently saying, “Really, Kurt? YOU have considered it?” More in a she-respects/admires-him sort of way, and can’t imagine he’d be so “weak”, than really condemning him for feeling like that. It’s more a subtly stunned look.
Quinn rebounds with “Why are you even here, Kurt? I thought you didn’t believe in God.”
Joe: “He asked me if he could come, and I invited him.”
I think, with the possible exception of Sam, since we don’t really know his thoughts about God & religion, that EVERYONE in the GodSquad could take a couple of CHAPTERS out of Joe’s book. I didn’t really know what to make of him in the last episode, now I think I may slightly love him.
Kurt: “I heard you guys were praying for Karofsky, and…after everything that we’ve been through, I didn’t have anywhere else to go.
”I feel responsible. He asked me out, and…and I said no. And he kept calling me…if I’d just answered one of those stupid calls…”
Mercedes: “We’re taking an Edible Arrangement to the hospital. Do you want to come with us?”
Now, THERE’S a great idea! I’m sure he’s going to love not only sympathy flowers, but sympathy flowers that he can EAT. =/ What with swallowing being so easy after he tried to hang himself by the throat, and all.
At least Rachel also apologized. A friend pointed out that she sees Finchel as Will/Terri 2.0, and she’s KIND OF RIGHT. But Terri would have responded to Will saying he was sorry by saying something like, “Oh, honey… At least now you know better for next time.”
Mercedes: “Mr. Shue, why do you have a jar of peanut butter and only one spoon?”
Sugar: “Yeah, there’s fifteen of us here, and I’m only comfortable sharing a spoon with about half of you.”
…I want to know who she’s comfortable sharing with. XD
I read an article commenting on the episode, that criticized Mr. Shue’s story, that it sounded more like he was making something up to try and “be in touch” with the kids, or something. But actually hearing him tell the story, I think it sounds completely plausible. Maybe not EVERY kid, but I think the vast majority of teens have at least thought about killing themselves, to some degree of realism. From Rachel’s neurotic season 2 line of “Have you ever pictured your own funeral?” People treating her poorly, and her imagining how sorry they would feel if she were gone, to actually contemplating it seriously, and often over something seemingly “dumb” and inconsequential (as Puck tries to point out with “Are you serious? I get caught cheating all the time!”) as being caught cheating. But when you’re a teen, things like that MATTER. Will’s father’s opinion of him MATTERED. Teens are, kind of by law of hormones, dramatic and impulsive, a lot of the time. They’re also selfish, and sometimes don’t think about the big consequences of their actions. Will thought, “If I jump, that’s it. I won’t have to look at my dad, I won’t have to worry about any of this anymore. I’ll never make a stupid mistake like that again, no one will ever be disappointed in me again, they won’t have to worry about me.”
Will: “It may not be cheating, but there’s something-everyone’s got something-that takes them right up to that edge.”
And a lot of times, to other people, it will seem inconsequential.
Girl: “Why are you cheering your competition?”
Clearly, this is her first Regionals competition with either the Warblers or the New Directions present. I have two words: FOAM. FINGERS. (Also, Kurt screaming when he first stands up to cheer for them in S2. XD)
Knowing what happens at the very end, listening to the Warblers singing “Stand”, I can’t help but get a very strong (creepy) sense of foreshadowing. Just saying.
So, I suppose if Sebastian does stick around as a long-term character, he’s going to be the reformed badboy? Gosh, a lot like Santana. Although I can never see him going to a public school, so I imagine that would mean the Warblers would also, at least peripherally, still be around as well. Silver lining, for some?
Someone pointed out that “Kurt was told arm-raising was a no-no for Warblers. Thanks for ruining the Warblers, Sebastian.”
OH MY GOD! Sebastian just COMPLETELY STOLE BLAINE’S RAISE YOUR GLASS MOVE! =O
Oh, right, commentary. ;P
I like New Directions’ songs. I’d never heard Fly, & I actually like the mashup with I Believe I Can Fly. Thankfully, IBICF isn’t in there that much, because I remember when it came out, and I am still thoroughly sick of it. =/
KELLY CLARKSON. She is my favorite artist. Full-stop.
Svengoolie. OMG.
Why are the Golden Goblets cheering that they won 3rd place? Do they not understand that at Regionals, that means they came in LAST? o.O
DAVE. DON’T FUCKING MAKE ME CRY. Goddammit.
Yeah…I really don’t know what to say about that scene [between Kurt & Dave in the hospital]. Surprisingly, I loved it. It was heartfelt and it had Kurt in it, and was surprisingly un-awkward, so of course I loved it. I have this whole future-headcanon (that I partly stole from someone on Tumblr I read ages ago, I think)/fic idea where Kurt and Dave are friends living in New York (not together, Kurt’s with Blaine, of course). Anyway.
Dave’s future/fictional son is so adorable!
I like the fact that he’s going bald in the back. XP
I saw last night, someone on Tumblr (I KNOW, I’M SO SPECIFIC, AREN’T I?) say their headcanon is that Blaine’s brother Cooper is Dave’s doctor (he went into medicine but didn’t know what he wanted to specialize in, then Sadie Hawkins happened & he saw how the ER doctors took care of Blaine and it inspired him, and then when Dave’s taken to the ER he’s the on-call.) So with that in mind, I couldn’t help but notice that you never see Dave’s doctor’s face, or his name badge. Hmm…
Will: “What’s the catch?”
Sue: “You know, I don’t think there is a catch. I think I really just wanna help you. Isn’t that weird?”
Will: “Mmhmm.”
Sue: [laughs, claps his shoulder] “Crazy hormones.”
BURT. Burt alone makes the episode worth it, along with HIRAM. YAY!
Hiram gives his completely INSANE plan. “We agreed?”
Carol:
^^ THIS is what facepalming without using your hand looks like.
Burt: Sounds like a plan.
BTW, yes, I pretty much HELD DOWN (read: tapped like crazy) the screencap key during this scene, and any time Kurt/Blaine/Klaine were on the screen. Also Rory. <3
I am so thankful that Rachel didn’t go with a strapless wedding dress. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a strapless wedding dress that I liked.
Hiram: “New plan. I’m going to fake an epileptic seizure.”
LeRoy: “You’re not an epileptic.”
Hiram: “That’s why I’m going to fake it.”
I’m not sure you could put that line in anyone else’s mouth and have them pull it off like Jeff Goldblum. Eeee!! /obligatory fangirling
I think I’ll end with the saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. And dawnie1970 was right, even knowing it was coming, it was shocking. I got chills.
