glee!
"And Lindsay Lohan is like something out of Lord of the Rings."
Have I mentioned this week how much I love this show? Ok well I do. I love it LOVE it. LOVE. IT.
Also, I love Madonna.
Madonna and Glee = pure orgasmic awesome
I was getting a bit annoyed at first when it seemed like the apex of the episode was going to be when the ladies of the show took "control" of their bodies by having sex with the people who were pressuring them to have sex in the first place. I mean it's freakin' Madonna and that is not empowerment. But then it concluded with them (or the girls at least) NOT having sex. And there was a great twist with Santino taking Finn's virginity. "The way to keep a guy forever is to take his virginity." That's pretty awesome since normally you hear it the other way around. I liked that Santino was the sexual aggressor, pressuring a male to do her and her being in control of the situation the entire time. While this dynamic is in general harmful no matter who's promoting it, it's at least nice to feature it in women to show that it's not just a guy territory. She was so dude-ish about it too. The only thing missing was the cigarette afterward but I guess the burger craving served that same purpose.
Also, why didn't Puck have his "sorry for being a major douche" moment with Quin? I mean let's face it. The kid is a cheating bastard and his heart will always be split amongst many women. Of all the guys on the show, he's the biggest jerk. I guess it's because the other guys actually realized their douche-baggery while Puck has yet to come to that realization. Or he did enough of it last fall to make it clear to us that he's never going to change. He's like Christian Troy, another creation of Ryan Murphy's. He's well-meaning (sometimes) but a dick at heart.
We've been a bit lacking in the Quin-Puck story line in general but that's all part of the Ryan Murphy style of story telling I guess. You focus on one pairing or a couple and some of the other ones just get pushed into the background for a while. Then randomly in some later episode you either get it fleshed out or they make a cameo appearance to sort things out before disappearing back into the wallpaper. I'm not complaining as much because Puck and Quin will never be as interesting as anything involving Sue Sylvester.
Who by the way was apparently the child of Nazi Hunters. And is 29 years old.
Aha. Whatever.
At first I was glad that she let Mercedes and Kirk into the Cheerios but now I'm beginning to wonder if it's just another one of her sinister plans to destroy the glee club. She's pretty crafty like that.
Finally, this new guy, Jesse or whatever, I'm on to him. It's weird because Rachel is at the same time one of the coolest and most pathetic characters on the show. Her constant enthusiasm, self-confidence, and optimism throughout the fall half was so uplifting and really made some of the cheesy story lines in the episodes work for me. But at the same time her grating personality and pension for dramatics makes her annoying to her glee-mates and renders her mostly friendless and even dateless. She's always under the whim of some male, even if it's reluctantly and even the mildest forms of self-efficacy can be wretched from her by some heroic act of romanticism from an offending Casanova. I don't know whether to hate her, feel bad for her, or root for her. Maybe we're supposed to do all three? Maybe that's the brilliance of Ryan Murphy? I mean I've often felt compelled to hate, root for, and feel bad for Christian, often all in one episode and even within the span of ten minutes. But man if that Jesse kid turns out to actually be a spy I'm seriously going to rip his golden pipes out through his tear ducts. I can live with him starting out as a spy but ending up falling for Rachel. I can even live with him actually transferring but ending up getting misconstrued as a turncoat. But I will seriously be upset if he ends up just not caring about Rachel at all, using her, and then dumping her.
I think one of the brilliant things about Lea Michele is that she makes the character Rachel really convincing. She's at the same time strong and fragile. I feel for her but get why people would find her annoying. When she gets those big brown eyes all glossy and her voice does that high pitched quivering thing, I feel bad. And more so I can really predict how devastating it would be to Rachel if Jesse really does fuck her over. And it really really sucks.
Also, I wish they'd at least showed something with Finn doing Santino. I mean he's so funny in every other example of his sexual attempts that I think the directors really missed out on a nice nugget of comedy. Oh well.
Oh. And does it bother anyone else how Black guy and Asian guy never get any lines? And no one hardly even addresses them either by pronoun or name. What is up with that?
Have I mentioned this week how much I love this show? Ok well I do. I love it LOVE it. LOVE. IT.
Also, I love Madonna.
Madonna and Glee = pure orgasmic awesome
I was getting a bit annoyed at first when it seemed like the apex of the episode was going to be when the ladies of the show took "control" of their bodies by having sex with the people who were pressuring them to have sex in the first place. I mean it's freakin' Madonna and that is not empowerment. But then it concluded with them (or the girls at least) NOT having sex. And there was a great twist with Santino taking Finn's virginity. "The way to keep a guy forever is to take his virginity." That's pretty awesome since normally you hear it the other way around. I liked that Santino was the sexual aggressor, pressuring a male to do her and her being in control of the situation the entire time. While this dynamic is in general harmful no matter who's promoting it, it's at least nice to feature it in women to show that it's not just a guy territory. She was so dude-ish about it too. The only thing missing was the cigarette afterward but I guess the burger craving served that same purpose.
Also, why didn't Puck have his "sorry for being a major douche" moment with Quin? I mean let's face it. The kid is a cheating bastard and his heart will always be split amongst many women. Of all the guys on the show, he's the biggest jerk. I guess it's because the other guys actually realized their douche-baggery while Puck has yet to come to that realization. Or he did enough of it last fall to make it clear to us that he's never going to change. He's like Christian Troy, another creation of Ryan Murphy's. He's well-meaning (sometimes) but a dick at heart.
We've been a bit lacking in the Quin-Puck story line in general but that's all part of the Ryan Murphy style of story telling I guess. You focus on one pairing or a couple and some of the other ones just get pushed into the background for a while. Then randomly in some later episode you either get it fleshed out or they make a cameo appearance to sort things out before disappearing back into the wallpaper. I'm not complaining as much because Puck and Quin will never be as interesting as anything involving Sue Sylvester.
Who by the way was apparently the child of Nazi Hunters. And is 29 years old.
Aha. Whatever.
At first I was glad that she let Mercedes and Kirk into the Cheerios but now I'm beginning to wonder if it's just another one of her sinister plans to destroy the glee club. She's pretty crafty like that.
Finally, this new guy, Jesse or whatever, I'm on to him. It's weird because Rachel is at the same time one of the coolest and most pathetic characters on the show. Her constant enthusiasm, self-confidence, and optimism throughout the fall half was so uplifting and really made some of the cheesy story lines in the episodes work for me. But at the same time her grating personality and pension for dramatics makes her annoying to her glee-mates and renders her mostly friendless and even dateless. She's always under the whim of some male, even if it's reluctantly and even the mildest forms of self-efficacy can be wretched from her by some heroic act of romanticism from an offending Casanova. I don't know whether to hate her, feel bad for her, or root for her. Maybe we're supposed to do all three? Maybe that's the brilliance of Ryan Murphy? I mean I've often felt compelled to hate, root for, and feel bad for Christian, often all in one episode and even within the span of ten minutes. But man if that Jesse kid turns out to actually be a spy I'm seriously going to rip his golden pipes out through his tear ducts. I can live with him starting out as a spy but ending up falling for Rachel. I can even live with him actually transferring but ending up getting misconstrued as a turncoat. But I will seriously be upset if he ends up just not caring about Rachel at all, using her, and then dumping her.
I think one of the brilliant things about Lea Michele is that she makes the character Rachel really convincing. She's at the same time strong and fragile. I feel for her but get why people would find her annoying. When she gets those big brown eyes all glossy and her voice does that high pitched quivering thing, I feel bad. And more so I can really predict how devastating it would be to Rachel if Jesse really does fuck her over. And it really really sucks.
Also, I wish they'd at least showed something with Finn doing Santino. I mean he's so funny in every other example of his sexual attempts that I think the directors really missed out on a nice nugget of comedy. Oh well.
Oh. And does it bother anyone else how Black guy and Asian guy never get any lines? And no one hardly even addresses them either by pronoun or name. What is up with that?