can someone explain what the fuss is about Glee?

Oct 21, 2009 09:03

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 ( Read more... )

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pellucid October 22 2009, 13:27:34 UTC
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.

Much of what you say about the adults vs. the kids, incidentally, sort of confirms that this may not be the show for me. I find that I'm usually tremendously uninterested in the high school trope, and in the instances where a show about high schoolers does appeal to me (ie, Friday Night Lights), it's the adult characters I'm really most invested in and find most fascinating. Obviously there's a huge cultural appeal of stories about high school, but it's something that's never really worked for me. (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!)

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abyssinia4077 October 23 2009, 02:50:36 UTC
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.

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