can someone explain what the fuss is about Glee?

[pellucid]

Some weeks ago, I caught about five minutes of the Glee premiere before turning it off when the choir director's wife (I don't know anyone's names) made me want to attack her with a sharp, pointy object. Ah well, I figured, I didn't need another show anyway. But then all manner of my acquaintances, fannish and otherwise, have exploded with love for

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[holdouttrout]

The thing about Glee is that there are these shining moments--beanpot pointed a few of them out--where the characters feel right to me, and where people grow and change. And then the next second they do something really, really stupid. So I'm kinda having to live with the idea that The Plot! Is! Everything! And! Also! Ridiculous!

But there have been enough moments so far to keep me watching, frustrated though I might be.

[annerbhp]

I love Glee. I love the characters, I love that every character on the surface is sort of based on a caricature, but that they keep surprising me. I love that a lot of times the adults are the worst behaved and the most confused and the kids are the ones able to climb over barriers and preconceptions, and that this band of misfits and popular kids and marginalized kids all seem to bond in an environment of awesome songs, shared talent, and over the top musical numbers (God, whoever is doing the musical arrangements is a genius). It makes me happy. And every damn time I finish an ep my first thought is "Oh, show!" quickly followed by a rewatch of all the musical numbers

[pellucid]

I suspect I have not watched enough for the characters to move beyond caricature to start surprising me. And given the balance I felt between the parts that intrigued me and the parts that kind of turned me off (ie, tipped in favor of the latter), I'm not sure I'm going to give it much more of a chance to win me over, but I can certainly see potential for the characters to be more fleshed out than then initially appeared to me

[abyssinia4077]

Much in the same way that I don't really get the appeal of vampires. The combination of the two is why I never have and quite possibly never will watch Buffy, no matter how much people love it!

I am not fond of Vampires and similarly don't get the appeal (and yet seem to keep watching shows with them in spite of the vampires, which is odd) but I really enjoyed Buffy in spite of the vampires. I can't really speak to the high school aspect since I watched the first few seasons while I was in high school and thus was more disposed to being interested in high school stories.

Not saying you should watch it, just that the vampire thing wasn't, for me, a turnoff despite the lack-of-appeal thing.

[annerbhp]

Whoops, sorry Trout, I was trying to reply to the entry and not your comment in particular. Lol. I'm having a dumb day, what can I say. ;)

[holdouttrout]

Love me, love me, say that you love me!

(There, I enacted evil!song revenge.) :-P

[pellucid]

Even in the episode I saw, which might not have been the best possible one to start with, there were some great character moments (I really liked the part where the gay kicker came out to his dad, for instance, and I felt for the guy who was actually the father of the cheerleader's baby), so I can see where enough of that sort of thing would be really worthwhile. I'm not sure that it's enough to keep me watching, but I do get that, yes!