um...this got longer than expected - bear with me?

[nova33]

Hey people. I promise I am not going to be one of those people who expects you to comment on my posts while willfully ignoring yours. I am just doing a terrible job of managing to be job-hunting and playing sports and such while also keeping up with the internet

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[tailoredshirt]

See, I hate that. I am not caught up and haven't even seen them kiss yet, but I thought he was strange from the first time we met him. He plays this weird...guardian angel character to Kurt, like a gay mentor who inexplicably comes to Kurt's school to help him stand up to a bully. And he's supposed to basically be perfect and, as you said, non-threatening. I get the feeling that he never does or will do anything wrong, which already makes him a stupid character. Then there was the episode where he sings to the dude at the Gap, and I was like, wtaf. He doesn't even really know this guy, but he's proclaiming his love? It didn't come across to me as someone who overestimated someone's feelings and made themselves vulnerable. It came across to me as someone who is unable to connect with other people and is more about dramatic demonstrations of affection regardless of whether or not it's real. I didn't sense any tension between Blaine and Kurt, mostly because Blaine didn't seem capable of connecting with another person. It seemed like Kurt having a crush on the first gay boy who became his friend, which is believable but I don't buy them as a couple. Maybe I'll get a different read on Blaine in future episodes, but for now he weirds me out and I can't connect with him at all.

I feel like Glee is one of the most inconsistent shows I've ever seen, and I don't understand all of the critical acclaim. It feels like a guilty pleasure on every level. (And I'm not knocking guilty pleasures - hello, H50 - but the idea that this show is somehow groundbreaking makes me eyeroll.)

[nova33]

I'm assuming that wasn't a spoiler since, you know, internet, but I apologize if I said anything that was spoilerish.

I think...okay, I could see them as a couple. But Blaine's character needed hella more development. And you're right about the guardian angel thing. It's like...at first, that's all he was to Kurt, and he seemed so knowledgeable and wise, unlike naive!Kurt, but then, like you said, it becomes apparent that Blaine doesn't really seem to know how to connect with people. Like Blaine actually does live in the fantasy Glee world, if that makes sense. Everyone else sings songs in the halls but it's like they're in musical world just then, but they don't...stay there. Blaine's display of love in musical form in public seemed to step outside of that, like there was suddenly a strange collision between fantasy musical world and the real world (as much as Glee does depict a real world). And Blaine himself is that weird mix - he's like a fantasy character who's interacting in the real world, and it's kind of obvious that it doesn't work.

But ya know, I'm probably over-thinking this.

Oh, as for the groundbreaking thing - it's different in a lot of ways from normal TV, some good, some bad. I think it COULD have been groundbreaking, but it was so inconsistent and flawed that it fell short. It's like it got awarded for potential.

PS - Did I tell you that I've started working at a coffee shop? I interviewed on Tuesday, started Wednesday, and worked yesterday as well. I like it - the people are nice, I work with one other person who's nice and very patient with me, and it goes by fast. BUT I have also applied to a government job, which would just be filing and such, but it's full time and pays so much better than minimum wage. So...I don't know what I want most.

[tailoredshirt]

No, not a spoiler at all, don't worry. And even if it was I wouldn't care.

You must text a lot of people if you don't remember the multiple conversations we've had about you working at the coffee shop, lol. The government job would probably be better in the long run, if only for the money, but don't stress yourself out about making that decision before you even know if you've gotten it.

[nova33]

I like how you just ignored most of that comment.

I text a couple of people a lot. So, like, you and Morgan, Sam and Sarah, and maybe Catherine. And I can never keep track. If I'd thought about it for thirty seconds I'd have remembered, sorry. And yes, fair point. I feel singularly unqualified to work anywhere in the government.

[tailoredshirt]

Sorry, busy work day. I agreed with your comment, but I haven't even seen enough of Kurt/Blaine recently (nor do I remember enough beyond what I've already said) to say much else. But yeah, I agree. And I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Kurt is one of the original, "fleshed out" Glee kids, and Blaine started out as perfect, cardboard cut-out Glee kid from a perfect, cardboard cut-out private school, so the two of them together feels off when they're in each others' spaces trying to have an actual relationship.

You always make me feel so special, Elena.

Also, look at this thing that you missed because you haven't caught up yet. *icon*

[nova33]

No, fair enough. And that's a good point - Kurt is one of the originals, and also they made a part for Chris Colfer, so.

Hey now, I'm just being honest.

I AM WORKING ON IT. Maybe today, actually. I'll bake and watch H50.