Yes, thank goodness for the fast forward button. New New York onward just made me feel like crap, their fighting was viscerally unpleasant for me to watch, so this season, I've given up. As soon as Blaine laid it all out on the Lima Bean table 8 minutes into Loser Like Me, I've been pretty much fast-forwarding through everything having to do with the two of them. This episode, past "It's Too Late", I finally hit play on the Hummelberry scene only to find that that still wasn't safe, boo.
I think I'm developing alternate coping mechanisms too, since during Jane and boy!twin's duet I started laughing at Kurt's sad face, and then felt bad about it when he started crying. It sucks; I never thought I'd be laughing at a dramatic scene with a character that I've cared so much about over the years. I feel that if seasons 4 and 5 had not happened, I might be able to go with this season's Klaine storyline a little more, but at this point it is, well, laughable. But those flashbacks were pure evil.
Klaine aside, I'm still enjoying other aspects of the episodes. I like the continued clustering of Santana, Britney, and Quinn, and seeing them interact and do their thing. Unfortunately they were stuck with Becky, a character I would have not given an A plot storyline to given we only have 9 episodes left, but fine, whatever.
Beiste's story was by far the strongest part of the episode for me. I thought everyone involved did a great job and Jones acted the heck out of it. The bit of misdirection away from post-modern-gay hinting at her binder with her lying that it was cancer added some interest, and then it all got laid out on the table in the end. I'm a little puzzled where Sam's sudden dream of being a football coach came from--other than being on the team, I don't seem to recall Sam ever being particularly enthusiastic about football?
Santana and Brittany--eh, I don't really think about them too hard or take them super seriously, so I found nothing distasteful about them. Rather I just appreciated the sweetness that the writers were going for at face value. At this point it's looking to me like Brittana is going to end up being the least scathed and most mature couple of the entire show given that they were the only ones that handled breakup-gate of season 4 in a mature way and have never really bickered and been disrespectful to each other, or at least they haven't viewed each other's actions as disrespectful (separate from what a 3rd party observer might take away).
ETA: I was really impressed that Kurt just stood there and took that ridiculously long dressing down from Santana. I was sure he was going to explode. But Lea did a fantastic job in that scene, watching Rachel's reactionary expressions throughout that whole thing was hilarious! Also, how were Santana and Kurt magically best friends again at the end of the episode?
I think I'm developing alternate coping mechanisms too, since during Jane and boy!twin's duet I started laughing at Kurt's sad face, and then felt bad about it when he started crying. It sucks; I never thought I'd be laughing at a dramatic scene with a character that I've cared so much about over the years. I feel that if seasons 4 and 5 had not happened, I might be able to go with this season's Klaine storyline a little more, but at this point it is, well, laughable. But those flashbacks were pure evil.
Klaine aside, I'm still enjoying other aspects of the episodes. I like the continued clustering of Santana, Britney, and Quinn, and seeing them interact and do their thing. Unfortunately they were stuck with Becky, a character I would have not given an A plot storyline to given we only have 9 episodes left, but fine, whatever.
Beiste's story was by far the strongest part of the episode for me. I thought everyone involved did a great job and Jones acted the heck out of it. The bit of misdirection away from post-modern-gay hinting at her binder with her lying that it was cancer added some interest, and then it all got laid out on the table in the end. I'm a little puzzled where Sam's sudden dream of being a football coach came from--other than being on the team, I don't seem to recall Sam ever being particularly enthusiastic about football?
Santana and Brittany--eh, I don't really think about them too hard or take them super seriously, so I found nothing distasteful about them. Rather I just appreciated the sweetness that the writers were going for at face value. At this point it's looking to me like Brittana is going to end up being the least scathed and most mature couple of the entire show given that they were the only ones that handled breakup-gate of season 4 in a mature way and have never really bickered and been disrespectful to each other, or at least they haven't viewed each other's actions as disrespectful (separate from what a 3rd party observer might take away).
ETA: I was really impressed that Kurt just stood there and took that ridiculously long dressing down from Santana. I was sure he was going to explode. But Lea did a fantastic job in that scene, watching Rachel's reactionary expressions throughout that whole thing was hilarious! Also, how were Santana and Kurt magically best friends again at the end of the episode?
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