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Regarding the most recent Glee episode, 'Pot o' Gold':
- noooo I really don't like Quinn at all now and this makes me really sad because she was one of my favourites in the first series. What happened to you, Quinn?
- On the other hand, I accidentally love Shelby/Puck, so I suppose something good is coming out of this Quinn storyline.
- Santana is now one of my favourite characters. Almost everything she says is hilarious! She's a pretty awful person, yes, but she's a pretty awful person with style. And I love her love for Brittany. (Brittany is everything good about the world to her!)
- I also seem to have become strangely fond of Mike in all his mostly-silent glory. I didn't actually realise this until he got up to dance during Blaine's number and my immediate reaction was 'yay!'
- Incidentally, Blaine's number ('Last Friday Night'): really addictive.
- Santana's 'OH, YES, IT'S GOING TO BE THE RACHEL AND BLAINE SHOW' perplexed me, because, you know, Blaine has only just joined the New Directions. There hasn't been time for Schuester to obviously favour him yet. It took me a moment to realise that the Glee writers were criticising themselves through Santana for giving Blaine so many songs. It's good to show self-awareness, Glee writers, but please do it in a way that makes sense in-universe, because otherwise it gives the strange impression that Santana somehow watches Glee.
- please be friends again Rachel and Kurt, your friendship was the best :(
- (My never-posted notes on 'Asian F': Ian Brennan, why do you hate nice things? The Rachel-Kurt and Rachel-Mercedes friendships are two of my favourite dynamics in Glee. I can't believe you stamped all over both in one episode. Except I can, because you are Ian Brennan and you hate nice things.)
- Burt Hummel is also the best. I loved the cut to him talking to Figgins.
- I found myself really liking Puck in this episode, which surprised me a bit; he's never really interested me before. This may be in part related to my accidentally loving Shelby/Puck, but it can't be entirely Shelby/Puck-related, because I found myself thinking 'hmmm, I'm really liking Puck here, how did that happen?' well before I found myself shouting 'MAKE OUT' at the screen.
- And they actually made out! How often does that work?
- SHELBY/PUCK IS AN INCREDIBLY ILL-ADVISED PAIRING, WHY AM I SO DELIGHTED BY IT
Also, have some brief thoughts on episode 7.18 of Waterloo Road:
- Why do I find it so attractive when Michael Byrne furiously shoves teenagers against walls and gets up in their faces? It's a bit worrying.
- Josh actually got a line in the most recent episode! Amazing! I was starting to wonder whether he'd evaporated.
- Does Emily really think of Scout as a sister? Really? Are you sure? Because if so, wow, I seriously misjudged that relationship. I love surrogate sibling dynamics, but having one dropped suddenly on my head is a bit startling when I've spent so much time in the full belief that two characters are leading up to making out. I was honestly expecting Emily to kiss her in that scene.
- noooo I really don't like Quinn at all now and this makes me really sad because she was one of my favourites in the first series. What happened to you, Quinn?
- On the other hand, I accidentally love Shelby/Puck, so I suppose something good is coming out of this Quinn storyline.
- Santana is now one of my favourite characters. Almost everything she says is hilarious! She's a pretty awful person, yes, but she's a pretty awful person with style. And I love her love for Brittany. (Brittany is everything good about the world to her!)
- I also seem to have become strangely fond of Mike in all his mostly-silent glory. I didn't actually realise this until he got up to dance during Blaine's number and my immediate reaction was 'yay!'
- Incidentally, Blaine's number ('Last Friday Night'): really addictive.
- Santana's 'OH, YES, IT'S GOING TO BE THE RACHEL AND BLAINE SHOW' perplexed me, because, you know, Blaine has only just joined the New Directions. There hasn't been time for Schuester to obviously favour him yet. It took me a moment to realise that the Glee writers were criticising themselves through Santana for giving Blaine so many songs. It's good to show self-awareness, Glee writers, but please do it in a way that makes sense in-universe, because otherwise it gives the strange impression that Santana somehow watches Glee.
- please be friends again Rachel and Kurt, your friendship was the best :(
- (My never-posted notes on 'Asian F': Ian Brennan, why do you hate nice things? The Rachel-Kurt and Rachel-Mercedes friendships are two of my favourite dynamics in Glee. I can't believe you stamped all over both in one episode. Except I can, because you are Ian Brennan and you hate nice things.)
- Burt Hummel is also the best. I loved the cut to him talking to Figgins.
- I found myself really liking Puck in this episode, which surprised me a bit; he's never really interested me before. This may be in part related to my accidentally loving Shelby/Puck, but it can't be entirely Shelby/Puck-related, because I found myself thinking 'hmmm, I'm really liking Puck here, how did that happen?' well before I found myself shouting 'MAKE OUT' at the screen.
- And they actually made out! How often does that work?
- SHELBY/PUCK IS AN INCREDIBLY ILL-ADVISED PAIRING, WHY AM I SO DELIGHTED BY IT
Also, have some brief thoughts on episode 7.18 of Waterloo Road:
- Why do I find it so attractive when Michael Byrne furiously shoves teenagers against walls and gets up in their faces? It's a bit worrying.
- Josh actually got a line in the most recent episode! Amazing! I was starting to wonder whether he'd evaporated.
- Does Emily really think of Scout as a sister? Really? Are you sure? Because if so, wow, I seriously misjudged that relationship. I love surrogate sibling dynamics, but having one dropped suddenly on my head is a bit startling when I've spent so much time in the full belief that two characters are leading up to making out. I was honestly expecting Emily to kiss her in that scene.