The selective amnesia of the characters can be really annoying. As you said, complaining that Will wouldn't let them sing Britney when he'd let them sing Lady Gaga about six episodes beforehand. I think my biggest frustration about song complaints is from The Substitute though: "Hey Mr. Schue, with your recent divorce followed by drastic emasculation when the woman you loved openly questioned your sexual conduct in public and then hooked up with a dentist with a big, shiny car that you couldn't possibly hope to afford; Is it okay if we sing Cee Lo Green's song all about being bitter and angry that the girl you loved left you for a guy with more money? I'm sure that won't hit any sore spots."
I love Kurt, but he's the biggest Karma Houdini walking on Glee. He's regularly offensive, standoffish, stubborn and just plain rude to people who get between him and something he wants, but he very rarely is forced to acknowledge it and apologize.
The Will and Beiste friendship is in some ways, the actualized version of the potential friendship between Will and Ken in season one that we never got to see because their interactions were so often dealing with the building Will/Emma chemistry. In other ways though, I think I prefer Beiste to Ken because they developed her as an actual character rather than having her be defined through the obscuring lens of their interaction with another character.
I'm kinda in the middle on the Never Been Kissed deal. I can see what hopenight means about Will kissing her because she's a friend and he wants to give her a good first kiss, but my gut reaction when I saw the episode was "Okay... Dumb move, Schue." The build-up to it has Beiste explaining how a kiss is about the potential to be open with someone, intimate, have a relationship... blah blah blah, I don't remember exactly, it's been a while since I saw the episode. But the point is, Will doesn't have the intention to actually make a relationship out of it and so it's pretty much the opposite of what she wanted. I think the writers acknowledged this by having Beiste joke about it in a later episode with the "You're not gonna kiss me again, are you?" line, but that annoyed me because it contradicts the character's POV, but as you've pointed out: Glee and continuity haven't become acquainted yet.
I can understand Kurt making the distinction between making out with Brittany and having been kissed because I've made the same divide personally. The first time my lips bumped lips with somebody else's was in Stacey Evans' bathroom when I was ten. The first time my lips bumped lips with somebody else's and I felt a rush of hormones that erm... to put this in Finn terminology, left me thinking of the mailman; I was sixteen, at a party to celebrate finishing secondary school, trespassing on Lord Oving's property in the middle of the night and almost leaping out of my skin every time a rabbit darted out of the bushes twenty feet away. So I think the distinction is that a kiss should make you actually feel something for it to count, going by that Kurt may dismiss Karofsky's actions and count Blaine as his first real kiss.
To offer my own two cents, I like Lauren because her one-liners remind me of Daria :D
"There's really crazy weather going on in the States, so she's having trouble getting her internet to work and can't post her fic yet." "A likely story." Lol, tawg, you skeptic :P
"Everyone listening to this needs to go and write Hope a fic." Aye-aye, Cap'n! *salutes*
"And you have to read through all of dark_dreymer's notes." XD I feel sorry for any newbies coming into the fandom who find themselves taking on that challenge considering my verbose backlog.
"Maybe there should be a challenge, write a longer comment than dark_dreymer on anything." Haha, all fools are welcome to take that challenge :P
"Just to let you guys know about my sense of humour, every now and then I go back and I read over the comments on the last chapter and I just cackle to myself." Oh tawg you big meanie :P
"I like it because in my head that means that Kurt dressed him." Haha, but you're right, I really can't see Finn picking out skinny jeans for himself.
In regard to fan art, I uploaded a pencil sketch way back in the stone age of the comm that you can find under my author tag to give you an indication of my drawing ability. That should be enough explanation for why I'm gonna sit this one out.
As for why my pictures didn't come up during your search, I have DeviantArt primarily because my friends and I used it to IM each other in school when every other messaging site was blocked out by the school network. I'm not very strict in uploading so the tags I put in for the pics are probably rather lacking.
The Glee Magic 8-Ball! =D Normally those things give such general answers, but the answers to each question were oddly fitting XD
This Little Light of Mine could be seen as rather manipulative, but the moment did seem very sincere to me. It seemed in character for Will and considering Jean I was willing to stretch my disbelief enough that Sue joining in didn't seem too OOC, but I do agree that Sue's characterisation changes from episode to episode and usually on whether or not they need her to be the antagonist for a scene or not.
A Glee episode with all Disney songs, I can see Will singing Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "This burning desire is turning me to Finn sin." xP
Songs I'd love to see on Glee that'll never happen in a million years: I like female singer/songwriters that sing about past relationships or regrets, so I'd love to see some Alanis, Tori Amos, Vanessa Carlton or maybe some Poe. I don't think it would happen though because none of them are particularly mainstream and although their songs are full of rich subtleties and complex stories, that doesn't seem to be what they go for when they're picking songs for Glee: They want something that will be recognizable to the masses and that has a catchy in-your-face chorus that gets across the message, with little regard for whether the verses hold up: e.g. Finn singing Losing My Religion in Grilled Cheesus didn't reflect the character arc he went through in that episode at all.
I think it would be interesting to consider whether Smells Like Teen Spirit was Will's favorite song when he first got into Nirvana, then as he got a little older and life changed him a little his opinion would change and he'd pick a song he hadn't really favored before. With all the shit Terri put him through, I think Heart-Shaped Box would really speak to him.
Were The World Mine has a lot in common with the musical Zanna, Don't! so there's a whole soundtrack of songs from that to choose from :D
So Rachel dressed as herself for Halloween? Truly a scary costume :P
It would be good to see Rachel's dads, but if they crowbar them in just for the sake of having them there it'd kinda suck. On a similar note though, I remember a rumour from a while back that John Barrowman was going to be playing one of her dads.
Brittany and politics, there's a recipe for disaster... especially when you consider that Brittany finds recipes confusing ;3
Send Sue into the Middle East with her bullhorn, "You think this is hard...?" XD
I'm on a Boat would be awesome, but the most fitting song ever would be Finn singing Jizz in My Pants
By my calculations Will's 33/34.
"This is like a really bad, middle-of-the-road fanfic." "I know, I just want it to get something right eventually." After all, a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day.
My head-canon for exactly when and how Finn and Puck became friends is rather flexible, but my favored interpretation is that their friendship is recent rather than them being close since childhood. I kinda figured middle school or even Freshman year as being the time they became friends, but it is interesting to consider whether they knew each other before then and had a childish rivalry that was broken over into friendship by some specific incident.
"More of a challenge." Well, that'd be Rachel alright XD
Parody porn is something that's funnier conceptually than it is to sit down and watch. I was laughing my ass off as you described what was going on, but I can really believe it when you say that it was boring to watch. Porn can become very formulaic and trying to maintain the atmosphere of the source material throughout what is fundamentally a lot of Tab A into Slot B can't be an easy task.
Sam's immediate answer when Shag, Marry, Cliff came up: "I'd shove Artie off the cliff because it would be so easy."
"I would marry Chris Colfer because I believe he will decorate our shared abode far more tastefully than I ever would." Haha, most epic reason!
Matt Rutherford? They already chucked him off a cliff.
"Cliff Ryan Murphy." I love that there wasn't a moment of hesitation XD
I love Kurt, but he's the biggest Karma Houdini walking on Glee. He's regularly offensive, standoffish, stubborn and just plain rude to people who get between him and something he wants, but he very rarely is forced to acknowledge it and apologize.
The Will and Beiste friendship is in some ways, the actualized version of the potential friendship between Will and Ken in season one that we never got to see because their interactions were so often dealing with the building Will/Emma chemistry. In other ways though, I think I prefer Beiste to Ken because they developed her as an actual character rather than having her be defined through the obscuring lens of their interaction with another character.
I'm kinda in the middle on the Never Been Kissed deal. I can see what hopenight means about Will kissing her because she's a friend and he wants to give her a good first kiss, but my gut reaction when I saw the episode was "Okay... Dumb move, Schue." The build-up to it has Beiste explaining how a kiss is about the potential to be open with someone, intimate, have a relationship... blah blah blah, I don't remember exactly, it's been a while since I saw the episode. But the point is, Will doesn't have the intention to actually make a relationship out of it and so it's pretty much the opposite of what she wanted. I think the writers acknowledged this by having Beiste joke about it in a later episode with the "You're not gonna kiss me again, are you?" line, but that annoyed me because it contradicts the character's POV, but as you've pointed out: Glee and continuity haven't become acquainted yet.
I can understand Kurt making the distinction between making out with Brittany and having been kissed because I've made the same divide personally. The first time my lips bumped lips with somebody else's was in Stacey Evans' bathroom when I was ten. The first time my lips bumped lips with somebody else's and I felt a rush of hormones that erm... to put this in Finn terminology, left me thinking of the mailman; I was sixteen, at a party to celebrate finishing secondary school, trespassing on Lord Oving's property in the middle of the night and almost leaping out of my skin every time a rabbit darted out of the bushes twenty feet away. So I think the distinction is that a kiss should make you actually feel something for it to count, going by that Kurt may dismiss Karofsky's actions and count Blaine as his first real kiss.
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"There's really crazy weather going on in the States, so she's having trouble getting her internet to work and can't post her fic yet." "A likely story." Lol, tawg, you skeptic :P
"Everyone listening to this needs to go and write Hope a fic." Aye-aye, Cap'n! *salutes*
"And you have to read through all of dark_dreymer's notes." XD I feel sorry for any newbies coming into the fandom who find themselves taking on that challenge considering my verbose backlog.
"Maybe there should be a challenge, write a longer comment than dark_dreymer on anything." Haha, all fools are welcome to take that challenge :P
I'm not the only boy, there's its_davy_baby too :3
"Just to let you guys know about my sense of humour, every now and then I go back and I read over the comments on the last chapter and I just cackle to myself." Oh tawg you big meanie :P
"I like it because in my head that means that Kurt dressed him." Haha, but you're right, I really can't see Finn picking out skinny jeans for himself.
In regard to fan art, I uploaded a pencil sketch way back in the stone age of the comm that you can find under my author tag to give you an indication of my drawing ability. That should be enough explanation for why I'm gonna sit this one out.
As for why my pictures didn't come up during your search, I have DeviantArt primarily because my friends and I used it to IM each other in school when every other messaging site was blocked out by the school network. I'm not very strict in uploading so the tags I put in for the pics are probably rather lacking.
The Glee Magic 8-Ball! =D Normally those things give such general answers, but the answers to each question were oddly fitting XD
This Little Light of Mine could be seen as rather manipulative, but the moment did seem very sincere to me. It seemed in character for Will and considering Jean I was willing to stretch my disbelief enough that Sue joining in didn't seem too OOC, but I do agree that Sue's characterisation changes from episode to episode and usually on whether or not they need her to be the antagonist for a scene or not.
A Glee episode with all Disney songs, I can see Will singing Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "This burning desire is turning me to Finn sin." xP
Songs I'd love to see on Glee that'll never happen in a million years: I like female singer/songwriters that sing about past relationships or regrets, so I'd love to see some Alanis, Tori Amos, Vanessa Carlton or maybe some Poe. I don't think it would happen though because none of them are particularly mainstream and although their songs are full of rich subtleties and complex stories, that doesn't seem to be what they go for when they're picking songs for Glee: They want something that will be recognizable to the masses and that has a catchy in-your-face chorus that gets across the message, with little regard for whether the verses hold up: e.g. Finn singing Losing My Religion in Grilled Cheesus didn't reflect the character arc he went through in that episode at all.
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Were The World Mine has a lot in common with the musical Zanna, Don't! so there's a whole soundtrack of songs from that to choose from :D
So Rachel dressed as herself for Halloween? Truly a scary costume :P
It would be good to see Rachel's dads, but if they crowbar them in just for the sake of having them there it'd kinda suck. On a similar note though, I remember a rumour from a while back that John Barrowman was going to be playing one of her dads.
Brittany and politics, there's a recipe for disaster... especially when you consider that Brittany finds recipes confusing ;3
Send Sue into the Middle East with her bullhorn, "You think this is hard...?" XD
I'm on a Boat would be awesome, but the most fitting song ever would be Finn singing Jizz in My Pants
By my calculations Will's 33/34.
"This is like a really bad, middle-of-the-road fanfic." "I know, I just want it to get something right eventually." After all, a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day.
My head-canon for exactly when and how Finn and Puck became friends is rather flexible, but my favored interpretation is that their friendship is recent rather than them being close since childhood. I kinda figured middle school or even Freshman year as being the time they became friends, but it is interesting to consider whether they knew each other before then and had a childish rivalry that was broken over into friendship by some specific incident.
"More of a challenge." Well, that'd be Rachel alright XD
Parody porn is something that's funnier conceptually than it is to sit down and watch. I was laughing my ass off as you described what was going on, but I can really believe it when you say that it was boring to watch. Porn can become very formulaic and trying to maintain the atmosphere of the source material throughout what is fundamentally a lot of Tab A into Slot B can't be an easy task.
Sam's immediate answer when Shag, Marry, Cliff came up: "I'd shove Artie off the cliff because it would be so easy."
"I would marry Chris Colfer because I believe he will decorate our shared abode far more tastefully than I ever would." Haha, most epic reason!
Matt Rutherford? They already chucked him off a cliff.
"Cliff Ryan Murphy." I love that there wasn't a moment of hesitation XD
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