i'm the truth to your lies

[miss_universe93]

Hiii. First things first: I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post (trustingno1, jessamika, after2am, sweetrina, and babyxteeth) for everything you said, as well as anyone else who read it. I think I am quickly becoming one of those annoying LJers who always says their flist is amazing, because seriously, you guys are amazing. I knew that you guys would have some insight on this

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[kyttenfae]

Hi there, team-mate and newbie here! <3

Thanks for the warning re: Glee. I love(d) Tina and also stuttered (and still do when nervous) and missed that ep but am a spoiler whore so clicked the cut anyway. Oy. That's really too bad that they went there! ;;

[miss_universe93]

Hi! I was going to give you a welcome in this entry but I totally forgot!

I think a lot of people don't really care all that much about the stutter thing, but as a stutterer it irked me. I completely get that a lot of people don't care and Artie was disappointed when he found out but I really don't like that they went there. :/ (And yet I still have my glee icon!)

[babyxteeth]

I like that she came clean about it, as I always appreciate it when people tell the truth (even if the truth hurts). I hate IRL but also in shows like neighbours and home and away they make huge storylines out of a character lying or dodging the truth and I'm always yelling at the tv and being all "just bloody well tell them straight out to save you both a whole lot of pain you know it's just gonna get worse the longer you leave it" and a lot of sighing and hmph!-img from me. AH! Just remembered, it was actually on Glee wasnt it, his wife isnt actually pregnant, its like a phantom one, and she's all "it's a boy!!" thus making things wayyyyy more complicated. Honestly, who cbf?

But yeah, faking stuff just aint cool. I hated speeches myself, but cant fathom actually lying and pretending to everyone for yearsss?!?!!!

[miss_universe93]

I do like that she came clean about it, I do - what I don't like is the writers wanted Tina to have a secret and chose a lie about a speech impediment to be that secret. It was an episode about accepting people in wheelchairs and with disabilities, but then they turn around and paint a stutter as something you should disregard or as being easy to fake. Maybe in their little Glee universe stutters don't matter to anyone, but IRL stutters can and do affect people in a very real way. A couple of weeks ago in class I stuttered when answering a question and people laughed at me, they laughed equally at a lady with a bad stutter in a video we watched. I hate that Glee is in it's own way adding to that kind of behaviour, painting stutters as something trivial and disrespecting something that affects a lot of people. It's not called an "impediment" for fun, it's because stutters stop you from talking normally, confidently, feeling like everyone else - and for a lot of those people (especially me) singing and music is a great outlet. And yet

[fallintospace]

Glee is really getting on my nerves, everything is becoming way too dramatized even for a tv show.

♥

[maree]

I'm so sorry about your mum, it sounds heartbreaking :(

lol @ your dream.

That cat thing is so crazy, WTH is wrong with people! It has to be a 'joke'.

The rain blows, I think there's another 4 days of it. Plus hot nights = ew!

[miss_universe93]

aww thank you ♥ I tihnk I make it sound like cancer or something though, she just has a lung diease plus kidney problems (which is why she keeps getting operated on - they lanced some stones, then they put a tube in, and now they have to take it out) plus some kind of cold/flu at the moment. I enjoy the cooking and keeping things organized, don't enjoy her being sickly!

apparently the cat is no more o.O though all she did was post pics of her supposedly dead cat all stretched out, and the general consensus is her cat was just asleep LOL.

storms today eh! D:

[noblealice]

Yeah, I have a lot of issues with the way Glee tries to straddle the lines of so many things. Quinn's pregnancy and Artie's disability and Kurt's sexuality and I had my own "I don't really want to be watching this anymore"-moment when Will said something about covering a song with chocolate so Mercedes could sing it. Um, do you have to make everything about her character revolve around her skin colour? BLERG. Also, everything Will does is somehow inappropriate or offending and I guess that's his character since he's been doing it from the beginning but I just can't like a character whose every action seems to hurt someone. I will probably still hear about it though because my Mom loves the Broadway songs and she controls what is on the TV.

Sorry that the plot line with Tina (my poor, poor under-represented Tina!) brought up painful things from your past.

[miss_universe93]

exactly this!

everything Will does is somehow inappropriate or offending I didn't realize this until you brought it up, but you're right. It reminds me of that part in Wheels where Rachel comes up to him and goes "one day you'll be able to come up with a teaching moment that won't ruin my life" or something of the sort and I realized she was pretty much right. I was getting a little tired of how everything is a contestor a lesson with him and how he doesn't actually listen to the kids that much. And then he gets surprised when they do rebellious things like singing "Push It" because he doesn't listen to them. I think the show tries to victimize him with Terry acting how she does but I don't know, he's becoming a little tricky to like. Sometimes I don't buy that he actually wants to be a teacher (also, what does he actually teach besides Glee club? And how come we never see any of the kids in other classes besides cheer/football practice or mentioning schoolwork? I would like to know

[noblealice]

YES! He constantly puts Rachel down, seems to be oblivious to how Emma feels about him but strangely AWARE when students have unhealthy crushes on him and has a double standard when it comes to dealing with students with disabilities (shown in his attitude toward Sue treating her newest Cheerio, the girl with Down Syndrome the same as she'd treat any other girl).

I think he teaches Spanish outside of Glee, since one time he failed some girls to keep them form cheering. (Oh yeah, that right there is a great teacher!)

I heard that Madonna loves the show and has opened up her whole setlist for them, so their going to do a Madonna-themed episode later. So I don't think it will die as soon as Dollhouse, but yeah, I think the quality will dwindle down some more.

[miss_universe93]

Oh yeah, I forgot that detail about him teaching Spanish! And of course he blackmailed Finn with pot, as I remember,to get him to join Glee in the first place. Excellent. I heard about the Madonna episode too - some people on ONTD were annoyed because aparently Rachel is meant to sing 5 songs. (That is my other thing about Glee as well, it seems a lot of people don't like Rachel. It reminds me of how everyone hated Meredith on Grey's Anatomy).