Episode Reaction: Extraordinary Merry Christmas ("with this gumball, I thee wed")
IS THAT THE RIGHT NAME? DID I GET IT RIGHT?
As this reaction is sooooooo so late, I'll be brief because everyone's probably already said it all?
1. It took me so fucking long to get the eggnog joke. Oh my god. There is actually something wrong with me.
2. Artie's big FUCK YOU to absolutely everyone with that crazy Special made my entire life.
3. The gay-subtext-that-became-text, too, made my life. Though these two things are kind of part of the same thing in the episode. Basically there was a lot of "FUQ DA POLICE" from everyone and I loved it.
4. Shippin' Sory. No regrets.
5. Jesus sent them to the soup kitchen, and it was so fail because it was mean to be that fail. I haven't seen, but I suspect there are a lot of tumblarians and whatnot who did not see it that way?
6. The only things I said to Julia during Let It Snow were "eeeeeeeeeee" and "FOR GOD'S SAKES KLAINE SIT THE HELL DOWN."
7. They did a complete opposite of BICO, and not just in terms of lyrical sentiment: BICO was two friends acting as two people in a relationship and Let It Snow was two people in a relationship acting as friends. Which makes me feel things about one being in a lot of strong red colours and the other in black and white. And one in the Underworld vs one in the Land of the Living. and and and just lots of stuff.
8. AND, OH, OKAY, CAN WE TALK ABOUT MY COLOURGASM? Because damn they did some interesting and awesome stuff with it for half the episode. And then Artie went "no, screw that, you can no haz any more colours", and that was interesting too. Partly because their feelings didn't matter, they were acting, it's a Christmas Special, who cares what you really feel when this is how you're meant to feel (except that's not true, is it?), and partly because everyone was forced to play roles they're not... and then their way of expressing what they are got taken away too... but they found a way around it because Klaine are never going to be just holiday roommates and Rory will just bring everyone ever back into the land of colour (omg Blue Christmas) anyway. BECAUSE HE'S MAGIC. Yay.
9. Finn with a lightsaber. was, perfect. <3 Lol how Finn is Luke Skywalker but so, so not. And can't be because copyright laws and also not being able to be The Hero Guy, ever. And Puck can always be Han Solo, really.
10. That whole Special bit was just so much fun because there felt like a lot of... hey, we're just actors having fun, making fun of our characters a little, making fun of ourselves a little, it's not serious, not really, not at all, what is serious. It was just nice :D
11. It's a good thing a certain amazing couple rhymes with a certain white rapper's nickname, because I am about to go there and say "guess who's back, back again?" Yeah, yeah you tell a friend.
12. Yeah, okay, I shed a tear or two at Finn giving Rachel and actual star. Just. guh. <3 (and his reasons for naming it after him were so ridiculously cute that they worked.) (Finn, you can be a star too. You can dooo ittt.) (SPOILER ALERT: FINN HUDSON YOU ARE JOINING THE ARMY SOMEONE HOLD ME WHILE I CREY AND HAVE CONFUSES.)
13. Amber Riley wins at being perfect. just. hnnnnnnnnnngh.
14. Blaine can pass so very well. so so well. auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. :/
15. This is the part where I talk about HOW FUCKING AMAZING THE NEXT PROMO LOOKS. Becky. Becky you are a bamf. auhguaghguaughuh. Also Will Schuester I... cannot. You told your students first? (lol and the first reaction is "hey, this time you might not fuck it up royally", said in a tone I don't quite believe).
And now for something completely different...
So here's a dream I had last night:
I was on New Directions and, apparently, so were most of the Trouble Tones. And Shelby was the coach, which in itself says more than anything, but not the point. So, we were performing at Sectionals, (we had different costumes, I think) and I get on stage with everyone to go sing Man In The Mirror and no one has taught me any of the choreography. And I fudge my way through it, and I look over and see Rachel hasn't been taught the choreography either. So it kind of all ended up looking like a really lame, badly-timed canon, which, ughughugh. So we lose because Shelby and Rachel apparently can't handle their friend-family-what-is-this-relationship (totally understandable), and when we (being Rachel and I; Rachel and I are besties, now, apparently), go to confront Shelby, she gets all evasive, and then she tells me to go away because she and Rachel need to talk "important issues".
And that's all I remember of it, but I think Harmony also performed and... yeah I don't remember anything else.
On the bright side there was no awkward Darren impregnating in that dream!
And that is your shaggy dog tale for the evening! Goodnight!