1) Kurt boards during the week, drives home on weekends and he meant every night he is home. 2) In Glee!verse, Westerville is the next town over. Which would make it much easier to transfer Blaine for season 3. :P 3) The whole scene was thrown in at the last minute to give CC & DC screentime, so it's fine to ignore it, especially considering Kurt's comments in "Special Education."
There are two ways to explain this happening. One is sad and the other cracktastic.
First, the cracktastic: Zombie or Vampire.
Second, the sad: Possibly brain dead for two years (Terri Shaivo (not sure I spelled last name right) situation) and then death when her body actually gave out.
Either way, they need someone working on continuity for the show.
Well, where there is no canon then if we want to write about these two we have to make it up. I see no problem with that, personally, and if the show eventually goes the other way (which it is nearly certain to on the details) then so be it, the fic is AU at that point and that's fine with me. I've personally usually written Blaine as boarding full time with his family not located in the area. Several episodes in we still don't know from the show who Blaine's parents are, does he have brothers and sisters, where he grew up, what his family does for a living, what type of school he went to before Dalton or when he left there. But look at Santana ... in the Britney episode she said her father was a doctor and she has great insurance etc., and now she's saying she lives on the wrong side of the tracks. We haven't seen her parents either or know a thing about her homelife as far as I know. What about Puck's family? Even Artie's or Tina's or Mike's or Sam's? There's not a lot of background on anybody in this show. So my point is
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i wanted her to play his mum in a dream/flashback. I don't really like the whole 'lesbian aunt,' thing. Kurt's explored and accepted his sexuality, he doesn't need some relative coming in to bring up that part of his story again.
Is this the whole "is it a boarding school or not" debacle? In 2.10, it's dark outside when they sing BICO. Kurt was studying there, at Dalton, so I got the impression that he lives there. The whole living with Finn and bringing him milk every night thing, I took it as something he does over the weekend when he is at home. Because really, for Kurt to commute daily between Westerville and Lima would be crazy. The girls night out took home on Friday in my mind, too. So unless I missed something contradicting these above, Dalton is still a boarding school in my head.
It's dark out during BBB as well. In fact, there's someone sitting outside the window in a hoodie on a bench, which looked kinda creepy and stalkerish to me...
I find the idea of Kurt commuting every day bizarre but in general I've been trying and think of the two hour drive as a feature.
I'm European, so don't actually know, but I had always been told that driving distances were thought of quite differently in the States especially in the midwest and the rust belt where the car industry has historically been the centre of the universe. I've heard anecdotes of people driving what would be unimaginable distances over here to get to a favourite music venue, eating place or bar or even the nearest big city.
So I found the idea of the distance and the flat landscape in that part of Ohio evocative in an impractical way that is clearly just me projecting.
One way I've heard it said is something like:
"On one side of the Atlantic 100 years is a long time a short time and 100 miles is a long distance. On the other side it's the opposite"
I am American and yeah we do drive a lot ... I drove an hour each way to go to work for a long time and that job required me to stay late a LOT ... all too often I would be weaving down the highway half-asleep at 11 o'clock at night after a bad day at the office. Thank God I had the sense to quit that job. Lots of people commute an hour for work on the train or by car. But two hours each way before and after school seems a bit much, so to me the two choices are that Westerville and Lima on Glee are not that far apart and Kurt is living at home, or Kurt was talking about when he goes home for the weekends and holidays (he would have had a Christmas break rather recently).
Maybe a little of both? I grew up in Texas where long drives were reasonably common, but 2 hours ONE WAY everyday seems excessive even to me - and I can't imagine Burt being all that hot on having his teenager on the road for 4 hours a day. If there were trains in Ohio that might be more acceptable but, um, no. There ARE people who do commutes like that every day for work, but it's not completely common.
(I now live in DC and find that people in this part of the country where the population and urban densities are higher have a slightly more European sense of distance - it's an interesting topic and I totally get where you're coming from. The first time we went to Ireland we planned to drive across the country, from Dublin to Dingle, in a day and people thought we were nuts. I mean, 6 hours is nothing!)
Thanks! The idea is an interesting one - there could be some really beautiful geographically atmospheric fic to come out of it!
Yeah I figured I was romanticising somewhat - also I definitely wouldn't expect that to be a daily school run for sure.
One of the reasons I watch glee is for an Americana fix. I travelled coast to coast in the US by land (train) and so the idea of the long distances has always had a bit of an appeal to me. One of my dissatisfactions with Glee is a comparison to Friday Night Lights. As a general rule I prefer comedy, heightened reality and musical numbers to gritty drama but a nice thing in that series is the sense of place. You see the horizons, people are often in cars, you get a sense of small town dreams etc.
Now I know there's already a problem with the fact that the show treats Lima as small town America but that atmosphere was one of my favourite parts of the Glee pilot and I find it a shame that it fell away or was never developed further.
Much as I love Dalton things like a crazy Gossip Girl type prep school just dilute the sense of place even more so I've given up on this sort of thing though I do love it in fics.
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1) Kurt boards during the week, drives home on weekends and he meant every night he is home.
2) In Glee!verse, Westerville is the next town over. Which would make it much easier to transfer Blaine for season 3. :P
3) The whole scene was thrown in at the last minute to give CC & DC screentime, so it's fine to ignore it, especially considering Kurt's comments in "Special Education."
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There are two ways to explain this happening. One is sad and the other cracktastic.
First, the cracktastic: Zombie or Vampire.
Second, the sad: Possibly brain dead for two years (Terri Shaivo (not sure I spelled last name right) situation) and then death when her body actually gave out.
Either way, they need someone working on continuity for the show.
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Kurt could be developed in so many more ways!
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In 2.10, it's dark outside when they sing BICO. Kurt was studying there, at Dalton, so I got the impression that he lives there. The whole living with Finn and bringing him milk every night thing, I took it as something he does over the weekend when he is at home. Because really, for Kurt to commute daily between Westerville and Lima would be crazy. The girls night out took home on Friday in my mind, too.
So unless I missed something contradicting these above, Dalton is still a boarding school in my head.
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*checks*
It looks like he's wearing the Dalton uniform trousers though.
Meh, it wouldn't truly have worked in the fic anyway.
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Oh please let this end with a restraining order.
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I'm European, so don't actually know, but I had always been told that driving distances were thought of quite differently in the States especially in the midwest and the rust belt where the car industry has historically been the centre of the universe. I've heard anecdotes of people driving what would be unimaginable distances over here to get to a favourite music venue, eating place or bar or even the nearest big city.
So I found the idea of the distance and the flat landscape in that part of Ohio evocative in an impractical way that is clearly just me projecting.
One way I've heard it said is something like:
"On one side of the Atlantic 100 years is a long time a short time and 100 miles is a long distance. On the other side it's the opposite"
Is that not actually the case? I'm guessing no?
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(I now live in DC and find that people in this part of the country where the population and urban densities are higher have a slightly more European sense of distance - it's an interesting topic and I totally get where you're coming from. The first time we went to Ireland we planned to drive across the country, from Dublin to Dingle, in a day and people thought we were nuts. I mean, 6 hours is nothing!)
Thanks! The idea is an interesting one - there could be some really beautiful geographically atmospheric fic to come out of it!
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One of the reasons I watch glee is for an Americana fix. I travelled coast to coast in the US by land (train) and so the idea of the long distances has always had a bit of an appeal to me. One of my dissatisfactions with Glee is a comparison to Friday Night Lights. As a general rule I prefer comedy, heightened reality and musical numbers to gritty drama but a nice thing in that series is the sense of place. You see the horizons, people are often in cars, you get a sense of small town dreams etc.
Now I know there's already a problem with the fact that the show treats Lima as small town America but that atmosphere was one of my favourite parts of the Glee pilot and I find it a shame that it fell away or was never developed further.
Much as I love Dalton things like a crazy Gossip Girl type prep school just dilute the sense of place even more so I've given up on this sort of thing though I do love it in fics.
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