Glee Season 4 Re-watch - 4x16 - Feud

[liz_in_progress]

Hello, friends! It's September! Glee comes back this month! Oh, crap, that means I have three weeks to get through the last seven episodes of Season 4 before Season 5 is upon us. Let's get to it...

FEUD! And not even the family-based kind with the buzzer and the three X’s.

Comments

[liz_in_progress]

It's not a terrible episode. There are definitely some good parts (and honestly, Blaine's "it's not true, not really!" remains one of my biggest laughs of the season).

This re-watch is definitely giving me a bit of perspective on the season. It's easier to see some arcs when the timeline is compressed and we're not waiting through another four-week hiatus.

I'm looking forward to Guilty Pleasures, too! :-)

[pene]

My favourite piece of this episode was Blaine's "I probably could" to Sue. Something about the mild and bemused confidence really made me giggle.

But Finn resorting to violence up in New York was just awful.

If it was intended to show how messed up Finn is - how violent possessiveness is a difficult trap for young guys to avoid especially if they are feeling vulnerable - then it should have been slotted in before Marley suggests he go into teaching.

In any case it didn't feel like that at all. I didn't expect to encounter the idea that violence and resolving a girl's problems in her absence are romantic in a show with so much sensible gender commentary.

Plus it makes no sense for the character who is both careful and clumsy with his strength. It's infuriating for Rachel and I think out of character for Santana.

I had to block it from my brain. It just didn't happen.

The episode was just Blaine versus Sue with Darren's delightful line deliveries. And also Kurt muttering about his pillow. Short episode.

[liz_in_progress]

I really can't argue with your edit. Blaine vs. Sue and a touch of Kurt (as much as we can get for this ep, sadly). That doesn't sound half bad to me.

great fun!

[ext_2131594]

love your take on this episode, and I agree with you -- my favorite moments were Blaine and Santana moments, no question. Also, the catfishing thing is smelling like bad fish -- way overworked, and way too little Kurt. And Schue? Has Matt Morrison joined the Tina club of I-ran-over-Ryan's-puppy-and-my-character-will-be-made-to-pay?
And a thousand times yes, Finn's involvement in the New York fiasco was just wrong and frankly creepy. It really did fail.
I disagree with you about the How to Be a Heartbreaker dance number -- it's interesting, well done, and gives us a bit of Brody time. Brody was underdeveloped, I think, and I also wonder why no one felt sympathy/pity for the guy who felt like this was a choice he had to make. Also, creepiness aside, he wasn't really exploiting his clients -- there wasn't any lying involved on his side. Ah well. But again, thanks for these, I'm really enjoying them.

Re: great fun!

[liz_in_progress]

Interesting thoughts on Brody. Certainly I agree, they did show him as being somewhat uncomfortable with his... occupation, that it was something he picked up to pay the bills, whatever. And no, I don't think he was exploiting his clients.

I think Brody has the opposite problem of Kitty for me. Kitty I started out hating, and I'm only just barely starting to get a reason to think she's interesting and not just horrible. I've been given a reason to warm to her. Brody, on the other hand, started out seeming like a relatively nice guy. But he went straight downhill from Glease on, what with sleeping with Cassie and all. He got creepier and creepier as time went on, so for me, I had no interest in redeeming his character by now. I was happy to see him go.

Re: great fun!

[ext_2131594]

I think I'm starting to like Kitty too, but I think it may be due to her acting skills (which Dean Geyer, aka Brody, doesn't seem to quite have). We probably won't see him much more in canon. I'm predicting that Kitty and Artie may become a couple, which might be interesting. She definitely became more sympathetic as a character towards the last few episodes.

[manningstar]

I very much enjoyed reading your reaction to this episode. And it reminded me of a few things that were really odd. Like having Finn beat up Brody and tell him Rachel is his future wife was creepy and awful on its own, but it's even worse that it comes after the scene with Marley encouraging him to become a teacher. It would have made so much more sense if they had just flipped those two scenes. Then the uplifting group number could happen after Finn is shown to have some new hope for his future