I'm convinced that Brittany knew exactly what she was saying with the "playing for the other team" comment but knew she could pass it off as her own stupidity if Santana freaked out.
I hope so! I really like the idea that Brittany is a bit smarter than she looks but sometimes plays dumb because she knows she can get away with it (see also her parroting Santana's excuses for why it wasn't cheating) - I'm just not yet convinced that that's how she's deliberately being written. It would be really interesting if the writers did take her in that direction though, and it would make her characterisation less inconsistent and problematic.
Also- how dumb is she supposed to be? Honest question.
She's as dumb as the writers want her to be in any given moment. I don't think even they have any firm grasp on her intelligence level, so I don't know how anyone else is supposed to. I think a lot of people try to find some grand unifying theory that would make Brittany make sense, but I'm not sure that's possible.
I think maybe she just really wanted Santana all along, and that's why she basically got over Artie as soon as Santana sang Songbird, but she wants to be open about it and that's why she keeps pushing Santana to come out. I think she really doesn't understand why Santana's scared to come out (because Brittany sees the best in people, and doesn't get why anyone would have a problem with it?), so maybe she feels like Santana's ashamed of loving her? It might tie in with her self-esteem issues about being seen as stupid. I don't know, this is all total fanwank and probably not what the writers were intending at all.
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I am so confused about who and how we're supposed to be rooting for in the whole Brittany/Santana thing. Neither of them seems prepared to be in a supportive, out, healthy relationship given the push-pull they're both giving each other. I mean, obviously they're epically in love, and they'll get together some day, but right now, I think it'd be a trainwreck.
I kind of love how awful Finn, Rachel, and Quinn are to each other. That was by far my favorite part of this episode: it was just so very clear how terrible any resolution to that triangle is going to be, because they are all three of them awful people when they're interacting with each other. It gave me hope, really. (Either that, or it confirms that they deserve each other. Take them all three of them out of the dating pool, immediately! For the good of the entire world!)
I am so confused about who and how we're supposed to be rooting for in the whole Brittany/Santana thing.
I think we're just supposed to be rooting for them both to get their shit together? I really like that they're both trying so hard but still fucking up; it's not really anyone's fault, they're just in different places right now. They'll get there eventually.
It's definitely the awfulness that made the Rachel/Finn/Quinn stuff fun, but I feel like that's probably not actually what the writers were going for. I'm sure by the end of the season we'll be expected to buy that Rachel/Finn is epic true love.
There really isn't enough agreement in the world to sum up my feelings here. I can't abide Blaine, he just reeks of being one of those Gay Yoda characters they used to parachute into Dawson's Creek to teach Jack A Valuable Lesson About Being Gay, except then they panicked that he looked too much like a Mary Sue, so they just cobbled together a few vague and unconvincing character flaws. (Entirely unrelated, and not in any way Glee's fault, but the Darren Criss fans who bore on forever about how -*brave*- he is to be a straight actor playing a gay role fill me with RAGE
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Yeah, Blaine is such a non-character. I feel like most of the people who like him only like him because he's a cute boy for Kurt to kiss, rather than because they think he's interesting. I haven't seen people saying that Darren is ~brave, but UGH. What I like about all the straight actors who play gay on Glee is that none of them think it's a big deal, so it sucks that their fans do.
I find it bizarre that their relationship basically started out as a throwaway gag aimed at the slashers and yet somehow developed all this depth somewhere along the way.
It's bizarre because the cute slash pairing that the fans love NEVER becomes canon usually (whereas fan favourite het pairings often do) - I still can't quite believe that Britt/Santana has! Naya has been knocking it out of the park on a weekly basis and HeMo's improved a lot, and it's just a joy to watch. I'm so, so happy that the writers decided to go there.
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I hope so! I really like the idea that Brittany is a bit smarter than she looks but sometimes plays dumb because she knows she can get away with it (see also her parroting Santana's excuses for why it wasn't cheating) - I'm just not yet convinced that that's how she's deliberately being written. It would be really interesting if the writers did take her in that direction though, and it would make her characterisation less inconsistent and problematic.
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She's as dumb as the writers want her to be in any given moment. I don't think even they have any firm grasp on her intelligence level, so I don't know how anyone else is supposed to. I think a lot of people try to find some grand unifying theory that would make Brittany make sense, but I'm not sure that's possible.
I think maybe she just really wanted Santana all along, and that's why she basically got over Artie as soon as Santana sang Songbird, but she wants to be open about it and that's why she keeps pushing Santana to come out. I think she really doesn't understand why Santana's scared to come out (because Brittany sees the best in people, and doesn't get why anyone would have a problem with it?), so maybe she feels like Santana's ashamed of loving her? It might tie in with her self-esteem issues about being seen as stupid. I don't know, this is all total fanwank and probably not what the writers were intending at all.
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I kind of love how awful Finn, Rachel, and Quinn are to each other. That was by far my favorite part of this episode: it was just so very clear how terrible any resolution to that triangle is going to be, because they are all three of them awful people when they're interacting with each other. It gave me hope, really. (Either that, or it confirms that they deserve each other. Take them all three of them out of the dating pool, immediately! For the good of the entire world!)
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I think we're just supposed to be rooting for them both to get their shit together? I really like that they're both trying so hard but still fucking up; it's not really anyone's fault, they're just in different places right now. They'll get there eventually.
It's definitely the awfulness that made the Rachel/Finn/Quinn stuff fun, but I feel like that's probably not actually what the writers were going for. I'm sure by the end of the season we'll be expected to buy that Rachel/Finn is epic true love.
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There really isn't enough agreement in the world to sum up my feelings here. I can't abide Blaine, he just reeks of being one of those Gay Yoda characters they used to parachute into Dawson's Creek to teach Jack A Valuable Lesson About Being Gay, except then they panicked that he looked too much like a Mary Sue, so they just cobbled together a few vague and unconvincing character flaws. (Entirely unrelated, and not in any way Glee's fault, but the Darren Criss fans who bore on forever about how -*brave*- he is to be a straight actor playing a gay role fill me with RAGE ( ... )
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I find it bizarre that their relationship basically started out as a throwaway gag aimed at the slashers and yet somehow developed all this depth somewhere along the way.
It's bizarre because the cute slash pairing that the fans love NEVER becomes canon usually (whereas fan favourite het pairings often do) - I still can't quite believe that Britt/Santana has! Naya has been knocking it out of the park on a weekly basis and HeMo's improved a lot, and it's just a joy to watch. I'm so, so happy that the writers decided to go there.
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