Glee: The First Time - officially nominated as my season 3 favorite episode!
Ooh, finally. It happened again. A Glee episode I simply loved.
It's weird with that show, ever since season two, I'm either a bit indifferent about every episode because many things seem off or I simply don't like it because of the lack of continuity, but then once in a while there are those episodes that enchant me from the beginning (which there were a lot of in season one, which were all topped by "Born This Way" though) and somehow they seem to be a lot longer than those 42 minutes because so much is happening (and all of that while maintaining a coherent storyline) and it's simply good. Ok, from this point please watch out if you haven't seen this yet, because this is where the spoilers are going to start!
I loved all of the storylines. Let's start with the best first, which I normally don't do, but screw my principles. :P Blaine and Kurt. They were so cute, but not as cheesy as they threatened to become in the last episodes. There was a minor conflict, and that was something I've been wishing for because I knew they could solve it anyway and it would add a bit juice to their relationship, since I really sensed how I would get bored with their relationship soon after some more episodes if nothing would change. I think that was the second episode ever in which we even saw Kurt and Blaine kissing? :D Yeah, that made me realize that I would have liked them more touchy-feely all along, because I'm not all for listening to love vows all day long. Even though Kurt and Blaine are one of the rare gay couples on TV, especially in that age group, it still seems to be an issue having them actually kiss on screen, because I they're not hesitant showing all the straight couples making out. Okay, no point in fretting over that now that I got what I wanted, though! I liked Blaine revisiting the Warblers, and I liked how Blaine's and Kurt's night out ended in a conflict but not Kurt getting all hysterical but actually freaking a bit for appropriate reasons. I even liked that mini-date that Blaine and Sebastian had, because it had that nice vibe where it was obvious that Blaine was aware that this wasn't entirely okay. And Kurt being all stiff and jealous and needing to prove himself. All of those were issues, but not in the overstated, dramatic usual Glee way, but... just human.
Oh, and Karofsky's reappearance! (Funnily enough, he kinda looked like Burt, didn't he? xD) Nothing I love more than former "baddies" reappearing and being all friendly. It's so nice when things fall into place. :D
Overall, so many great scenes. Besides the obvious ones (also including Finnchel and the musical itself), I also liked the one where Rachel has that talk with the girls. And I even actually liked Artie in that episode, after getting over the inappropriateness of telling Rachel and Blaine that they should have sex. :P (That came out like "... with each other" the way I put it... but you know what I mean. xD My brother actually suggested that jokingly when Blaine and Rachel talk about not being... prepared for their roles right before going on stage. :D) He is really good at being a stage director, and I also liked the speech he gave in the end. And the Beiste storyline was really, really sweet, and I'm happy for her. (By the way, did anybody else find it funny in that scene sometime in the beginning of the episode, that Artie was in a room with four other people - of the same age or older than him - and was the only non-virgin? xD) Ahh, and Finn's freakout. It's so rare for him to get emotional, and he's a character that needs some more depth for me to like him. In the last few episodes, that was done by an entirely wrong approach, when he suddenly became so pseudo grown-up, which was plainly OOC for me. THIS was more like it.
The final scenes with Kurt/Blaine and Rachel/Finn were so nice, the atmosphere was great and that image of Kurt and Blaine lying there with their heads together... so sweet.
No, overall: nothing to complain. At all. (I might find something if I think long enough, but what point is there?) The only thing I wish is that the quality level of the Glee episodes wasn't such a rollercoaster and all of them could just have such a nicely composed storyline. Yeah, that's it then. :) I'm happy now.
It's weird with that show, ever since season two, I'm either a bit indifferent about every episode because many things seem off or I simply don't like it because of the lack of continuity, but then once in a while there are those episodes that enchant me from the beginning (which there were a lot of in season one, which were all topped by "Born This Way" though) and somehow they seem to be a lot longer than those 42 minutes because so much is happening (and all of that while maintaining a coherent storyline) and it's simply good. Ok, from this point please watch out if you haven't seen this yet, because this is where the spoilers are going to start!
I loved all of the storylines. Let's start with the best first, which I normally don't do, but screw my principles. :P Blaine and Kurt. They were so cute, but not as cheesy as they threatened to become in the last episodes. There was a minor conflict, and that was something I've been wishing for because I knew they could solve it anyway and it would add a bit juice to their relationship, since I really sensed how I would get bored with their relationship soon after some more episodes if nothing would change. I think that was the second episode ever in which we even saw Kurt and Blaine kissing? :D Yeah, that made me realize that I would have liked them more touchy-feely all along, because I'm not all for listening to love vows all day long. Even though Kurt and Blaine are one of the rare gay couples on TV, especially in that age group, it still seems to be an issue having them actually kiss on screen, because I they're not hesitant showing all the straight couples making out. Okay, no point in fretting over that now that I got what I wanted, though! I liked Blaine revisiting the Warblers, and I liked how Blaine's and Kurt's night out ended in a conflict but not Kurt getting all hysterical but actually freaking a bit for appropriate reasons. I even liked that mini-date that Blaine and Sebastian had, because it had that nice vibe where it was obvious that Blaine was aware that this wasn't entirely okay. And Kurt being all stiff and jealous and needing to prove himself. All of those were issues, but not in the overstated, dramatic usual Glee way, but... just human.
Oh, and Karofsky's reappearance! (Funnily enough, he kinda looked like Burt, didn't he? xD) Nothing I love more than former "baddies" reappearing and being all friendly. It's so nice when things fall into place. :D
Overall, so many great scenes. Besides the obvious ones (also including Finnchel and the musical itself), I also liked the one where Rachel has that talk with the girls. And I even actually liked Artie in that episode, after getting over the inappropriateness of telling Rachel and Blaine that they should have sex. :P (That came out like "... with each other" the way I put it... but you know what I mean. xD My brother actually suggested that jokingly when Blaine and Rachel talk about not being... prepared for their roles right before going on stage. :D) He is really good at being a stage director, and I also liked the speech he gave in the end. And the Beiste storyline was really, really sweet, and I'm happy for her. (By the way, did anybody else find it funny in that scene sometime in the beginning of the episode, that Artie was in a room with four other people - of the same age or older than him - and was the only non-virgin? xD) Ahh, and Finn's freakout. It's so rare for him to get emotional, and he's a character that needs some more depth for me to like him. In the last few episodes, that was done by an entirely wrong approach, when he suddenly became so pseudo grown-up, which was plainly OOC for me. THIS was more like it.
The final scenes with Kurt/Blaine and Rachel/Finn were so nice, the atmosphere was great and that image of Kurt and Blaine lying there with their heads together... so sweet.
No, overall: nothing to complain. At all. (I might find something if I think long enough, but what point is there?) The only thing I wish is that the quality level of the Glee episodes wasn't such a rollercoaster and all of them could just have such a nicely composed storyline. Yeah, that's it then. :) I'm happy now.