Comment Part 1hardysmidgenDecember 13 2011, 19:18:40 UTC
Well, I'm still trying to determine if he's done a 180, or if they just put him in 180 situations. The stripping was a 180 in terms of his body issues, yet the explanation sounds more like Sam has accepted someone else might want to see his body versus thinking his own body is attractive...in S2, he WAS working out to be considered sexy and desirable--watching carefully what he ate and worrying that even when he looked ripped, he looked fat.
We didn't see much progress on that front as he embraced his trouty mouth too late in the season to see if the "I should like me for me" idea stuck. Perhaps Sam is still struggling with that. The willingness to do whatever it takes to try to win someone's attention sounds a lot like S2 Sam, so maybe they haven't totally dropped that. Does Sam stand there smiling awkwardly (and perhaps a bit angrily) when Santana read off that littany of insults because he no longer cares what she thinks or because he's just going to stand it like he did last season?
The biggest oddity to the stripping other than the age / personality issues was the reasoning. They COULD have made this work if Sam was struggling to live on his own. However, instead of being homeless, he is now in a medium-large, beautiful house with his family, but somehow they don't have enough money to buy their children shoes? They tried to make it sound like he was stripping to buy necessities when in reality, it would have made more sense to have Sam wanting to give his younger siblings the luxury of thinking they could have something they wanted...I could potentially buy that Sam was doing this just to give his siblings a sense of normalcy or giving their childhood back--where if they wanted a pretty new notebook or new shoes for the start of the year, his income allowed for the minor "anytime splurge." I just can't see them moving into a house with that posh kitchen and being unable to afford shoes.
Oh! By middle ground, I was actually referring to all of the gay teens/young adults between the extremes of Glee's homophobic closeted bullies and always-knew-it out kids. I'm not saying Santana, Karofsky, Blaine, and Kurt aren't regular, normal teens or valid experiences. They absolutely are. It's just that Glee had made roped them off into one extreme or the other, and that leaves a lot of kids who may struggle to relate to either side asking, "I don't have a problem with gay kids or hate myself, but I'm not ready to tell everyone/be out-and-proud...am I normal?"
We didn't see much progress on that front as he embraced his trouty mouth too late in the season to see if the "I should like me for me" idea stuck. Perhaps Sam is still struggling with that. The willingness to do whatever it takes to try to win someone's attention sounds a lot like S2 Sam, so maybe they haven't totally dropped that. Does Sam stand there smiling awkwardly (and perhaps a bit angrily) when Santana read off that littany of insults because he no longer cares what she thinks or because he's just going to stand it like he did last season?
The biggest oddity to the stripping other than the age / personality issues was the reasoning. They COULD have made this work if Sam was struggling to live on his own. However, instead of being homeless, he is now in a medium-large, beautiful house with his family, but somehow they don't have enough money to buy their children shoes? They tried to make it sound like he was stripping to buy necessities when in reality, it would have made more sense to have Sam wanting to give his younger siblings the luxury of thinking they could have something they wanted...I could potentially buy that Sam was doing this just to give his siblings a sense of normalcy or giving their childhood back--where if they wanted a pretty new notebook or new shoes for the start of the year, his income allowed for the minor "anytime splurge." I just can't see them moving into a house with that posh kitchen and being unable to afford shoes.
Oh! By middle ground, I was actually referring to all of the gay teens/young adults between the extremes of Glee's homophobic closeted bullies and always-knew-it out kids. I'm not saying Santana, Karofsky, Blaine, and Kurt aren't regular, normal teens or valid experiences. They absolutely are. It's just that Glee had made roped them off into one extreme or the other, and that leaves a lot of kids who may struggle to relate to either side asking, "I don't have a problem with gay kids or hate myself, but I'm not ready to tell everyone/be out-and-proud...am I normal?"
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