PUKING KLAINEBOWS ABOUT NOW
Omg you guys I CANNOT get over how much I liked tonight's glee episode. Like, I cannot even. EVENING ABILITY DESTROYED. But in all seriousness, other than a few minor things, this is like everything I wanted in a Glee episode, and reminds me of what Glee COULD be all the time, if it could only avoid making me want to throw things at the screen every other line.
The big spoiler of course is the Klaine kiss, and if you're like me then you've been squeeing and drooling over Kurt and Blaine and the actors that play them of course since like day one and like super wanting them to get together. I just loved everything about how all the Klaine scenes played out I just don't even know how to describe. So many of the Blaine scenes and characterization have been cringe-worthy, and then there was the offensive stuff, and judging from previous episodes this could have been so bad, but it wasn't. IT WAS PERFECT. Like, all the touching, and then the fact that they got to legit make out, despite being afflicted with Being Gay On Television, was just such a refreshing change, and that whole scene was so sweet and there were all the Warblers being all shipper-on-deck-y and omg, this is the Blaine that fandom wanted, the Blaine from 2010 that was sweet and dapper and did amazing duets with Kurt.
Speaking of which, THE DUET. AND THE SONGS. I AM ALL FLAIL. It was just so good and I liked the song and actually all the songs and everything. I liked just about every song this episode, and that is just so rare for me with Glee. Honestly, I am not a fan of most of the songs (usually of the Sooper Popular variety), especially those that lean toward misogyny or other frustrating messages, but I loved all the songs this episode! I think I want to download them and listen to them legit like a lot! I actually loved "Loser" at whole lot, like for genuine, and it's so great when I find something to care about that is not Klaine-related, because that is rare. And then they get out the slushies and they did all the loser signs and the audience got them too, and I loved that because I've had a Glee foam hand sitting in my room that I got at comic con that I've had no idea what to do with and was going to get rid of, but now I want to keep it, because Glee foam hands are canon now, and now it's going to remind me of this episode every time I see it.
I even loved the crappy-on-purpose songs, in particular "Trouty Mouth." And I also love this rare trait Glee has, where it does this amazing and subtle lines. Really it is brilliant at this, and does it a couple times per episode. That is what makes the show. Of course, these are often coupled with annoying offensive lines that make me want to throw things at the TV, but sometimes they do it just perfectly. "Are you playing Angry Birds?" is like one of my favorite lines in Glee (from a different episode), and in this one we had Brittney's lines as usual, "world war sue", and Santana saying she'd written another verse of Trouty Mouth in the background, and "last time I checked, it's not in the constitution." LOVE.
Now, I don't want to help too far into all the myriad ways in which Glee is offensive to every oppressed group ever (and tries its best to hit just about every one), because that would just harsh my squee, and this post is ALL ABOUT SQUEE, and because, if you decide to start complaining about Glee's offensiveness it is like a vicious cycle you can't get out of. BUT. I have to say, for some real analysis here, that it's frustrating that Glee, in so many ways, does gays (note I didn't say bisexuals here, gotta be super specific.) so well but fails in applying that kind of understanding and nuance to anybody else in the show. Kurt and Blaine get to be characters, have significant storylines, and don't have their kiss or romance shunted to the background, and in the last episode we even got some nuance about how parents talking to their kids about sex would be a very different experience for a gay teen, and in fact just doesn't usually happen. You'd just never see that on TV ever. This is of course probably because Ryan Murphy is a gay man, but privileged in like every other way, and so fails to appreciate other struggles as well. Which is really frustratingly too bad because Glee is teetering on the edge of being a brilliant show, if it could get over othering people all the time.
So in conclusion, this episode had probably the fewest instances of making me want to throw things at the screen probably all season, and was good on top of it. I suppose this is the part where I out myself as a squealing Glee and Klaine fangirl, who's been following this fandom pretty closely for awhile now (though not anywhere near as closely as my sister oh god), which I guess I have just never mentioned because I've been too busy doing complicated moping and ignoring Livejournal. But even though I may have VERY mixed feelings about Glee as a show, it really does have the greatest fandom ever. I feel like I have to say that it's worth getting into Glee for the fandom, because it's true!
The big spoiler of course is the Klaine kiss, and if you're like me then you've been squeeing and drooling over Kurt and Blaine and the actors that play them of course since like day one and like super wanting them to get together. I just loved everything about how all the Klaine scenes played out I just don't even know how to describe. So many of the Blaine scenes and characterization have been cringe-worthy, and then there was the offensive stuff, and judging from previous episodes this could have been so bad, but it wasn't. IT WAS PERFECT. Like, all the touching, and then the fact that they got to legit make out, despite being afflicted with Being Gay On Television, was just such a refreshing change, and that whole scene was so sweet and there were all the Warblers being all shipper-on-deck-y and omg, this is the Blaine that fandom wanted, the Blaine from 2010 that was sweet and dapper and did amazing duets with Kurt.
Speaking of which, THE DUET. AND THE SONGS. I AM ALL FLAIL. It was just so good and I liked the song and actually all the songs and everything. I liked just about every song this episode, and that is just so rare for me with Glee. Honestly, I am not a fan of most of the songs (usually of the Sooper Popular variety), especially those that lean toward misogyny or other frustrating messages, but I loved all the songs this episode! I think I want to download them and listen to them legit like a lot! I actually loved "Loser" at whole lot, like for genuine, and it's so great when I find something to care about that is not Klaine-related, because that is rare. And then they get out the slushies and they did all the loser signs and the audience got them too, and I loved that because I've had a Glee foam hand sitting in my room that I got at comic con that I've had no idea what to do with and was going to get rid of, but now I want to keep it, because Glee foam hands are canon now, and now it's going to remind me of this episode every time I see it.
I even loved the crappy-on-purpose songs, in particular "Trouty Mouth." And I also love this rare trait Glee has, where it does this amazing and subtle lines. Really it is brilliant at this, and does it a couple times per episode. That is what makes the show. Of course, these are often coupled with annoying offensive lines that make me want to throw things at the TV, but sometimes they do it just perfectly. "Are you playing Angry Birds?" is like one of my favorite lines in Glee (from a different episode), and in this one we had Brittney's lines as usual, "world war sue", and Santana saying she'd written another verse of Trouty Mouth in the background, and "last time I checked, it's not in the constitution." LOVE.
Now, I don't want to help too far into all the myriad ways in which Glee is offensive to every oppressed group ever (and tries its best to hit just about every one), because that would just harsh my squee, and this post is ALL ABOUT SQUEE, and because, if you decide to start complaining about Glee's offensiveness it is like a vicious cycle you can't get out of. BUT. I have to say, for some real analysis here, that it's frustrating that Glee, in so many ways, does gays (note I didn't say bisexuals here, gotta be super specific.) so well but fails in applying that kind of understanding and nuance to anybody else in the show. Kurt and Blaine get to be characters, have significant storylines, and don't have their kiss or romance shunted to the background, and in the last episode we even got some nuance about how parents talking to their kids about sex would be a very different experience for a gay teen, and in fact just doesn't usually happen. You'd just never see that on TV ever. This is of course probably because Ryan Murphy is a gay man, but privileged in like every other way, and so fails to appreciate other struggles as well. Which is really frustratingly too bad because Glee is teetering on the edge of being a brilliant show, if it could get over othering people all the time.
So in conclusion, this episode had probably the fewest instances of making me want to throw things at the screen probably all season, and was good on top of it. I suppose this is the part where I out myself as a squealing Glee and Klaine fangirl, who's been following this fandom pretty closely for awhile now (though not anywhere near as closely as my sister oh god), which I guess I have just never mentioned because I've been too busy doing complicated moping and ignoring Livejournal. But even though I may have VERY mixed feelings about Glee as a show, it really does have the greatest fandom ever. I feel like I have to say that it's worth getting into Glee for the fandom, because it's true!