my one coquette, the answer to my love's duet
Day 01 - What is your current favourite ship?
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
I almost invariably hate triangles. The person in the middle usually ends up looking like an indecisive idiot, at best. The others often stoop to rotten depths, or come across as pathetic or spineless. Usually, someone ends up villainized. So all my choices are a little off-kilter today. To start with:
TV
Vaughn/Syd/Will, Alias
(I could not find a picture of the three of them together for anything. This makes me sad.)
I picked them because this is a triangle that never, for one moment, made me hate any of the three characters, or dislike Sydney’s relationship with either of them. Though I always skewed heavily Syd/Vaughn-like most people-I loved her friendship with Will, and there were moments-coming to his house and cuddling when every other man in her life seemed to have betrayed her; his “I just love you” in Rendezvous-when I loved them as a romantic ship as well.
I especially love in season two when Will and Vaughn meet, and, yes, it’s awkward, but you know what? They like each other. They respect each other and each other’s place in Syd’s life. There is no male macho posturing, and only one sweetly meant and well-received warning from Will to Vaughn about his relationship with Sydney. Vaughn even helps Will get a job for the CIA.
And though I will always wish Bradley Cooper could have stayed in the cast, his guest appearances in season three and season five are among my favorites, and really do feed into the triangle. I love that Syd and Will slept together in Remnants. I love that they didn’t talk about it afterwards, and that they liked that they didn’t talk about it. I loved his grief for Syd and Isabelle in season five when he finds out Vaughn is “dead.” I loved that he asked Syd to be best man at his wedding.
Um, so this writeup skewed heavily Will/Syd. I think that’s because Syd/Vaughn need no defense from me. They are one of the few times when show’s OTP and my favorite pairing (not my OTP, that was Jack/Irina, but still my favorite Sydney pairing) coincided. For five seasons, I never got tired of their romance and never stopped wishing that happy ending for them that they eventually and deservedly got.
A Sydney/Vaughn tribute video, by CDS1Productions:
Fanfic Rec: Cinema Song by yahtzee63
Summary: The first film Will took Sydney to at the Rialto was "Rear Window."
Movies
Robert/Giselle/Edward/Nancy, Enchanted
I am one of the few people who can say without shame that this is one of my favorite movies ever. I am a Disney girl, born and bred, so all the little shout-outs to Disney classics fill my heart with nostalgia and love. And then Amy Adams is phenomenal, and James Marsden is hilarious, and Patrick Dempsey has the best sad eyes in the business, and Idina Menzel is there for bonus Elphaba! I guess, I don’t know. Basically, I just love everything about this movie, and these couples, and the way they work themselves out. (Although, honestly, for Edward/Nancy to make sense, you should watch the deleted scene of Nancy talking to her friend-it’s ANGELA from BONES, hey, Angela!-about whether or not she’s a romantic.)
(by Jamie91)
Books
Mirah was equal to his wishes. While the general applause was sounding, Klesmer gave a more valued testimony, audible to her only-"Good, good-the crescendo better than before." But her chief anxiety was to know that she had satisfied Mr. Deronda: any failure on her part this evening would have pained her as an especial injury to him. Of course all her prospects were due to what he had done for her; still, this occasion of singing in the house that was his home brought a peculiar demand. She looked toward him in the distance, and he saw that she did; but he remained where he was, and watched the streams of emulous admirers closing round her, till presently they parted to make way for Gwendolen, who was taken up to be introduced by Mrs. Klesmer. Easier now about "the little Jewess," Daniel relented toward poor Gwendolen in her splendor, and his memory went back, with some penitence for his momentary hardness, over all the signs and confessions that she too needed a rescue, and one much more difficult than that of the wanderer by the river-a rescue for which he felt himself helpless. The silent question-"But is it not cowardly to make that a reason for turning away?" was the form in which he framed his resolve to go near her on the first opportunity, and show his regard for her past confidence, in spite of Sir Hugo's unwelcome hints.
Klesmer, having risen to Gwendolen as she approached, and being included by her in the opening conversation with Mirah, continued near them a little while, looking down with a smile, which was rather in his eyes than on his lips, at the piquant contrast of the two charming young creatures seated on the red divan. The solicitude seemed to be all on the side of the splendid one.
"You must let me say how much I am obliged to you," said Gwendolen. "I had heard from Mr. Deronda that I should have a great treat in your singing, but I was too ignorant to imagine how great."
"You are very good to say so," answered Mirah, her mind chiefly occupied in contemplating Gwendolen. It was like a new kind of stage-experience to her to be close to genuine grand ladies with genuine brilliants and complexions, and they impressed her vaguely as coming out of some unknown drama, in which their parts perhaps got more tragic as they went on.
"We shall all want to learn of you-I, at least," said Gwendolen. "I sing very badly, as Herr Klesmer will tell you,"-here she glanced upward to that higher power rather archly, and continued-"but I have been rebuked for not liking to middling, since I can be nothing more. I think that is a different doctrine from yours?" She was still looking at Klesmer, who said quickly-
"Not if it means that it would be worth while for you to study further, and for Miss Lapidoth to have the pleasure of helping you." With that he moved away, and Mirah taking everything with naïve seriousness, said-
"If you think I could teach you, I shall be very glad. I am anxious to teach, but I have only just begun. If I do it well, it must be by remembering how my master taught me."
Gwendolen was in reality too uncertain about herself to be prepared for this simple promptitude of Mirah's, and in her wish to change the subject, said, with some lapse from the good taste of her first address-
"You have not been long in London, I think?-but you were perhaps introduced to Mr. Deronda abroad?"
"No," said Mirah; "I never saw him before I came to England in the summer."
"But he has seen you often and heard you sing a great deal, has he not?" said Gwendolen, led on partly by the wish to hear anything about Deronda, and partly by the awkwardness which besets the readiest person, in carrying on a dialogue when empty of matter. "He spoke of you to me with the highest praise. He seemed to know you quite well."
"Oh, I was poor and needed help," said Mirah, in a new tone of feeling, "and Mr. Deronda has given me the best friends in the world. That is the only way he came to know anything about me-because he was sorry for me. I had no friends when I came. I was in distress. I owe everything to him."
Poor Gwendolen, who had wanted to be a struggling artist herself, could nevertheless not escape the impression that a mode of inquiry which would have been rather rude toward herself was an amiable condescension to this Jewess who was ready to give her lessons. The only effect on Mirah, as always on any mention of Deronda, was to stir reverential gratitude and anxiety that she should be understood to have the deepest obligation to him.
But both he and Hans, who were noticing the pair from a distance, would have felt rather indignant if they had known that the conversation had led up to Mirah's representation of herself in this light of neediness. In the movement that prompted her, however, there was an exquisite delicacy, which perhaps she could not have stated explicitly-the feeling that she ought not to allow any one to assume in Deronda a relation of more equality or less generous interest toward her than actually existed. Her answer was delightful to Gwendolen: she thought of nothing but the ready compassion which in another form she had trusted in and found herself; and on the signals that Klesmer was about to play she moved away in much content, entirely without presentiment that this Jewish protégé would ever make a more important difference in her life than the possible improvement of her singing-if the leisure and spirits of a Mrs. Grandcourt would allow of other lessons than such as the world was giving her at rather a high charge.
~George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Chapter XLV
I love this book to a crazy degree. It was the first Eliot I read and seemed to open up a whole new vista of fiction for me. What’s really novel about this triangle is that Gwendolen thinks she is the heroine. She thinks this is the story of her life, the she is the center of Daniel’s world, that he loves her and his every thought is for her, while he really is only moved towards her by the pity he feels for all miserable creatures. And Mirah, poor, friendless Mirah, who doesn’t see herself as worthy of him at all, is the one he loves.
But it’s more than that; it’s the fact that Daniel’s world operates in a completely different sphere from Gwendolen’s, that his thoughts are not her thoughts, nor his ways, her ways, but the times their paths cross have an immensely transformative experience on her life. She is a horrible person at the beginning of the book, utterly self-absorbed and materialistic. Life gives her a hard lesson in the form of her husband, a lesson she didn’t wholly deserve, obviously, but one she walked into with her eyes wide open. But it’s Daniel who makes her start to open her eyes and see this whole great, big world of suffering outside herself. And it’s his love for Mirah which makes her see her own insignificance. (This seems a harsh thing to say, but it is something for her benefit, her growth as a person.) “It is better-it shall be better with me because I have known you,” writes Gwenolen at the end of the novel, and she means it, and it’s true.
Plus, I just love Daniel & Mirah. Their characters, their romance, everything.
Also, I’ve seen the Masterpiece Theater version, and while I love the casting-Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, and Jodhi May play the leads-and the costumes, I…am not a fan. They truncate Daniel & Mirah’s story beyond recognition and write out most of Mordecai’s role, the influences of Kabbalah and early Zionism are minimal. It’s nothing like the novel I loved, for all that most of the key events are in it. Actually, I don’t like the Middlemarch miniseries either, come to think of it. I think that so much of Eliot’s work takes place in her character’s heads, the thought life is almost more important than their actions, that just trying to translate the action onto screen is disappointing.
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?
I don’t really have any thoughts on HIMYM or Bones this week, beyond just the fact that I loved them. I’m so glad to have new episodes again!
I do have a few thoughts on Glee, though.
1. BRITTANY S. PIERCE, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE FOREVER. I was a little worried going into this episode that her awesome one-liners would not translate into my loving a whole episode built around her, but this was clearly stupidity on my part. She was fantastically fantastic, and her dance scenes were probably the best they’ve had on Glee.
2. Speaking of which, SYTYCD’s Mark from season four (aka the Best Season Ever 4Real) was one of her featured backup dancers. Yay Mark!
3. Rachel, you continue to suck beyond all endurance. What exactly does Finn see in you again?
4. However, I loved the misdirection with Quinn saying all that to Finn-they kept showing it in the previews, and I was horrified at the thought of the show going back to them. But as soon as it played in show, I knew Quinn was helping out Rachel, and I loved it wholeheartedly. Here is a character who has grown and changed so much since we first met her. KINDLY TAKE A LESSON, RACHEL BERRY. Quinn is so awesome. She needs more screentime.
5. Tiny Puck/Quinn moment! During the singing of that last song, anyone notice they were looking at each other during the “you are the exception” part? Yeah. I don’t *exactly* ship Puck/Quinn; I more ship the idea of what they could be. But that’s miles ahead of where I am with most of the couples on this show.
6. Tina/Mike cuddling! Tina/Mike cuddling! <33333
7. Will Scheuster, we need to talk. Back when the show began, you were so cute and adorable, and I liked you so much. Now you’re yucky and gross and make my skin crawl. John Stamos is more likable and less creepy than you are. Think about that for a while. No, seriously, go sit in a corner and think about that.
8. EMMA! I missed you. I’m so glad you’re back. Your new boyfriend is great, much better than I thought he’d be. I love that you were not impressed by Will’s idiocy. Keep being your adorable self.
9. Is it wrong that I love crazypants Terri? I’m so glad Jessalyn Gilsig is still in the cast.
10. I am also loving Coach Beiste. She’s much more interesting as a character than Ken, and as a foil for Sue than stupid Will.
11. Becky! *snuggles*
12. I really, really hate Britney Spears music. It barely counts as music with me. Although “Sailing” is probably the worst song ever written, so Will loses this round, too. Next week, though, has Puck singing Billy Joel! BETTER BE TO QUINN.
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
I almost invariably hate triangles. The person in the middle usually ends up looking like an indecisive idiot, at best. The others often stoop to rotten depths, or come across as pathetic or spineless. Usually, someone ends up villainized. So all my choices are a little off-kilter today. To start with:
TV
Vaughn/Syd/Will, Alias
(I could not find a picture of the three of them together for anything. This makes me sad.)
I picked them because this is a triangle that never, for one moment, made me hate any of the three characters, or dislike Sydney’s relationship with either of them. Though I always skewed heavily Syd/Vaughn-like most people-I loved her friendship with Will, and there were moments-coming to his house and cuddling when every other man in her life seemed to have betrayed her; his “I just love you” in Rendezvous-when I loved them as a romantic ship as well.
I especially love in season two when Will and Vaughn meet, and, yes, it’s awkward, but you know what? They like each other. They respect each other and each other’s place in Syd’s life. There is no male macho posturing, and only one sweetly meant and well-received warning from Will to Vaughn about his relationship with Sydney. Vaughn even helps Will get a job for the CIA.
And though I will always wish Bradley Cooper could have stayed in the cast, his guest appearances in season three and season five are among my favorites, and really do feed into the triangle. I love that Syd and Will slept together in Remnants. I love that they didn’t talk about it afterwards, and that they liked that they didn’t talk about it. I loved his grief for Syd and Isabelle in season five when he finds out Vaughn is “dead.” I loved that he asked Syd to be best man at his wedding.
Um, so this writeup skewed heavily Will/Syd. I think that’s because Syd/Vaughn need no defense from me. They are one of the few times when show’s OTP and my favorite pairing (not my OTP, that was Jack/Irina, but still my favorite Sydney pairing) coincided. For five seasons, I never got tired of their romance and never stopped wishing that happy ending for them that they eventually and deservedly got.
A Sydney/Vaughn tribute video, by CDS1Productions:
Click to viewFanfic Rec: Cinema Song by yahtzee63
Summary: The first film Will took Sydney to at the Rialto was "Rear Window."
Movies
Robert/Giselle/Edward/Nancy, Enchanted
I am one of the few people who can say without shame that this is one of my favorite movies ever. I am a Disney girl, born and bred, so all the little shout-outs to Disney classics fill my heart with nostalgia and love. And then Amy Adams is phenomenal, and James Marsden is hilarious, and Patrick Dempsey has the best sad eyes in the business, and Idina Menzel is there for bonus Elphaba! I guess, I don’t know. Basically, I just love everything about this movie, and these couples, and the way they work themselves out. (Although, honestly, for Edward/Nancy to make sense, you should watch the deleted scene of Nancy talking to her friend-it’s ANGELA from BONES, hey, Angela!-about whether or not she’s a romantic.)
(by Jamie91)
Books
Mirah was equal to his wishes. While the general applause was sounding, Klesmer gave a more valued testimony, audible to her only-"Good, good-the crescendo better than before." But her chief anxiety was to know that she had satisfied Mr. Deronda: any failure on her part this evening would have pained her as an especial injury to him. Of course all her prospects were due to what he had done for her; still, this occasion of singing in the house that was his home brought a peculiar demand. She looked toward him in the distance, and he saw that she did; but he remained where he was, and watched the streams of emulous admirers closing round her, till presently they parted to make way for Gwendolen, who was taken up to be introduced by Mrs. Klesmer. Easier now about "the little Jewess," Daniel relented toward poor Gwendolen in her splendor, and his memory went back, with some penitence for his momentary hardness, over all the signs and confessions that she too needed a rescue, and one much more difficult than that of the wanderer by the river-a rescue for which he felt himself helpless. The silent question-"But is it not cowardly to make that a reason for turning away?" was the form in which he framed his resolve to go near her on the first opportunity, and show his regard for her past confidence, in spite of Sir Hugo's unwelcome hints.
Klesmer, having risen to Gwendolen as she approached, and being included by her in the opening conversation with Mirah, continued near them a little while, looking down with a smile, which was rather in his eyes than on his lips, at the piquant contrast of the two charming young creatures seated on the red divan. The solicitude seemed to be all on the side of the splendid one.
"You must let me say how much I am obliged to you," said Gwendolen. "I had heard from Mr. Deronda that I should have a great treat in your singing, but I was too ignorant to imagine how great."
"You are very good to say so," answered Mirah, her mind chiefly occupied in contemplating Gwendolen. It was like a new kind of stage-experience to her to be close to genuine grand ladies with genuine brilliants and complexions, and they impressed her vaguely as coming out of some unknown drama, in which their parts perhaps got more tragic as they went on.
"We shall all want to learn of you-I, at least," said Gwendolen. "I sing very badly, as Herr Klesmer will tell you,"-here she glanced upward to that higher power rather archly, and continued-"but I have been rebuked for not liking to middling, since I can be nothing more. I think that is a different doctrine from yours?" She was still looking at Klesmer, who said quickly-
"Not if it means that it would be worth while for you to study further, and for Miss Lapidoth to have the pleasure of helping you." With that he moved away, and Mirah taking everything with naïve seriousness, said-
"If you think I could teach you, I shall be very glad. I am anxious to teach, but I have only just begun. If I do it well, it must be by remembering how my master taught me."
Gwendolen was in reality too uncertain about herself to be prepared for this simple promptitude of Mirah's, and in her wish to change the subject, said, with some lapse from the good taste of her first address-
"You have not been long in London, I think?-but you were perhaps introduced to Mr. Deronda abroad?"
"No," said Mirah; "I never saw him before I came to England in the summer."
"But he has seen you often and heard you sing a great deal, has he not?" said Gwendolen, led on partly by the wish to hear anything about Deronda, and partly by the awkwardness which besets the readiest person, in carrying on a dialogue when empty of matter. "He spoke of you to me with the highest praise. He seemed to know you quite well."
"Oh, I was poor and needed help," said Mirah, in a new tone of feeling, "and Mr. Deronda has given me the best friends in the world. That is the only way he came to know anything about me-because he was sorry for me. I had no friends when I came. I was in distress. I owe everything to him."
Poor Gwendolen, who had wanted to be a struggling artist herself, could nevertheless not escape the impression that a mode of inquiry which would have been rather rude toward herself was an amiable condescension to this Jewess who was ready to give her lessons. The only effect on Mirah, as always on any mention of Deronda, was to stir reverential gratitude and anxiety that she should be understood to have the deepest obligation to him.
But both he and Hans, who were noticing the pair from a distance, would have felt rather indignant if they had known that the conversation had led up to Mirah's representation of herself in this light of neediness. In the movement that prompted her, however, there was an exquisite delicacy, which perhaps she could not have stated explicitly-the feeling that she ought not to allow any one to assume in Deronda a relation of more equality or less generous interest toward her than actually existed. Her answer was delightful to Gwendolen: she thought of nothing but the ready compassion which in another form she had trusted in and found herself; and on the signals that Klesmer was about to play she moved away in much content, entirely without presentiment that this Jewish protégé would ever make a more important difference in her life than the possible improvement of her singing-if the leisure and spirits of a Mrs. Grandcourt would allow of other lessons than such as the world was giving her at rather a high charge.
~George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Chapter XLV
I love this book to a crazy degree. It was the first Eliot I read and seemed to open up a whole new vista of fiction for me. What’s really novel about this triangle is that Gwendolen thinks she is the heroine. She thinks this is the story of her life, the she is the center of Daniel’s world, that he loves her and his every thought is for her, while he really is only moved towards her by the pity he feels for all miserable creatures. And Mirah, poor, friendless Mirah, who doesn’t see herself as worthy of him at all, is the one he loves.
But it’s more than that; it’s the fact that Daniel’s world operates in a completely different sphere from Gwendolen’s, that his thoughts are not her thoughts, nor his ways, her ways, but the times their paths cross have an immensely transformative experience on her life. She is a horrible person at the beginning of the book, utterly self-absorbed and materialistic. Life gives her a hard lesson in the form of her husband, a lesson she didn’t wholly deserve, obviously, but one she walked into with her eyes wide open. But it’s Daniel who makes her start to open her eyes and see this whole great, big world of suffering outside herself. And it’s his love for Mirah which makes her see her own insignificance. (This seems a harsh thing to say, but it is something for her benefit, her growth as a person.) “It is better-it shall be better with me because I have known you,” writes Gwenolen at the end of the novel, and she means it, and it’s true.
Plus, I just love Daniel & Mirah. Their characters, their romance, everything.
Also, I’ve seen the Masterpiece Theater version, and while I love the casting-Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, and Jodhi May play the leads-and the costumes, I…am not a fan. They truncate Daniel & Mirah’s story beyond recognition and write out most of Mordecai’s role, the influences of Kabbalah and early Zionism are minimal. It’s nothing like the novel I loved, for all that most of the key events are in it. Actually, I don’t like the Middlemarch miniseries either, come to think of it. I think that so much of Eliot’s work takes place in her character’s heads, the thought life is almost more important than their actions, that just trying to translate the action onto screen is disappointing.
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?
I don’t really have any thoughts on HIMYM or Bones this week, beyond just the fact that I loved them. I’m so glad to have new episodes again!
I do have a few thoughts on Glee, though.
1. BRITTANY S. PIERCE, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE FOREVER. I was a little worried going into this episode that her awesome one-liners would not translate into my loving a whole episode built around her, but this was clearly stupidity on my part. She was fantastically fantastic, and her dance scenes were probably the best they’ve had on Glee.
2. Speaking of which, SYTYCD’s Mark from season four (aka the Best Season Ever 4Real) was one of her featured backup dancers. Yay Mark!
3. Rachel, you continue to suck beyond all endurance. What exactly does Finn see in you again?
4. However, I loved the misdirection with Quinn saying all that to Finn-they kept showing it in the previews, and I was horrified at the thought of the show going back to them. But as soon as it played in show, I knew Quinn was helping out Rachel, and I loved it wholeheartedly. Here is a character who has grown and changed so much since we first met her. KINDLY TAKE A LESSON, RACHEL BERRY. Quinn is so awesome. She needs more screentime.
5. Tiny Puck/Quinn moment! During the singing of that last song, anyone notice they were looking at each other during the “you are the exception” part? Yeah. I don’t *exactly* ship Puck/Quinn; I more ship the idea of what they could be. But that’s miles ahead of where I am with most of the couples on this show.
6. Tina/Mike cuddling! Tina/Mike cuddling! <33333
7. Will Scheuster, we need to talk. Back when the show began, you were so cute and adorable, and I liked you so much. Now you’re yucky and gross and make my skin crawl. John Stamos is more likable and less creepy than you are. Think about that for a while. No, seriously, go sit in a corner and think about that.
8. EMMA! I missed you. I’m so glad you’re back. Your new boyfriend is great, much better than I thought he’d be. I love that you were not impressed by Will’s idiocy. Keep being your adorable self.
9. Is it wrong that I love crazypants Terri? I’m so glad Jessalyn Gilsig is still in the cast.
10. I am also loving Coach Beiste. She’s much more interesting as a character than Ken, and as a foil for Sue than stupid Will.
11. Becky! *snuggles*
12. I really, really hate Britney Spears music. It barely counts as music with me. Although “Sailing” is probably the worst song ever written, so Will loses this round, too. Next week, though, has Puck singing Billy Joel! BETTER BE TO QUINN.