Comments | pellucid: can someone explain what the fuss is about Glee?

pellucid

can someone explain what the fuss is about Glee?

Oct 21, 2009 09:03

Some weeks ago, I caught about five minutes of the Glee premiere before turning it off when the choir director's wife (I don't know anyone's names) made me want to attack her with a sharp, pointy object. Ah well, I figured, I didn't need another show anyway. But then all manner of my acquaintances, fannish and otherwise, have exploded with love for ( Read more... )

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holdouttrout October 21 2009, 17:29:34 UTC

The thing about Glee is that there are these shining moments--beanpot pointed a few of them out--where the characters feel right to me, and where people grow and change. And then the next second they do something really, really stupid. So I'm kinda having to live with the idea that The Plot! Is! Everything! And! Also! Ridiculous!

But there have been enough moments so far to keep me watching, frustrated though I might be.

annerbhp October 21 2009, 20:26:57 UTC

I love Glee. I love the characters, I love that every character on the surface is sort of based on a caricature, but that they keep surprising me. I love that a lot of times the adults are the worst behaved and the most confused and the kids are the ones able to climb over barriers and preconceptions, and that this band of misfits and popular kids and marginalized kids all seem to bond in an environment of awesome songs, shared talent, and over the top musical numbers (God, whoever is doing the musical arrangements is a genius). It makes me happy. And every damn time I finish an ep my first thought is "Oh, show!" quickly followed by a rewatch of all the musical numbers ( ... )

pellucid October 22 2009, 13:27:34 UTC

I suspect I have not watched enough for the characters to move beyond caricature to start surprising me. And given the balance I felt between the parts that intrigued me and the parts that kind of turned me off (ie, tipped in favor of the latter), I'm not sure I'm going to give it much more of a chance to win me over, but I can certainly see potential for the characters to be more fleshed out than then initially appeared to me ( ... )

abyssinia4077 October 23 2009, 02:50:36 UTC

Much in the same way that I don't really get the appeal of vampires. The combination of the two is why I never have and quite possibly never will watch Buffy, no matter how much people love it!

I am not fond of Vampires and similarly don't get the appeal (and yet seem to keep watching shows with them in spite of the vampires, which is odd) but I really enjoyed Buffy in spite of the vampires. I can't really speak to the high school aspect since I watched the first few seasons while I was in high school and thus was more disposed to being interested in high school stories.

Not saying you should watch it, just that the vampire thing wasn't, for me, a turnoff despite the lack-of-appeal thing.

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gabolange October 21 2009, 21:53:23 UTC

There's new BSG stuff? I did not know that! More importantly, I find that now that I know, I do not care a whit. :)

pellucid October 22 2009, 13:30:28 UTC

Apparently so! I had no idea it was even on the way (I mean, I vaguely knew that they were making a movie about the Cylons before and immediately after the destruction of the Colonies, but I didn't know it was about to come out or anything), and I don't think it's been officially released yet (whether on DVD or airing on Skiffy--or both? I have no idea), but naturally it leaked, and half the internet has torrented it, and yes, I find I do not care a whit! I mean, from what I read I don't think I'd find it irritating or objectionable, really, but I just have no interest whatsoever.

katcorvi October 21 2009, 22:57:19 UTC

I've not seen Glee, so no thoughts pro or con there. I live under a rock and rarely know about current shows. I also had no idea about a new BSG movie and my first thought upon starting the second part of your post was that you were discussing health care and the debates on the various plans. Not being in a partisan camp? Fits my misunderstanding. And then realization struck: BSG!!

I need to crawl out from under my rock every now and again. Thanks for lifting it up a bit. ;0)

pellucid October 22 2009, 13:33:41 UTC

Hee! I think your rock is far more excusable than mine--I'm afraid I've been so consumed with other things that I've hardly read anything about the proposed health care plans and couldn't begin to have a conversation about them! Which is inexcusable because it is an issue I care about, but I'm blaming my crazy life and living in Canada. :) Right now, if something doesn't have to do with my job search or my dissertation, or if it's not appearing in sparkly text on my flist (as the existence of a new BSG movie did), I probably have no opinion!

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pellucid October 22 2009, 13:41:02 UTC

I think if you have a predisposition toward high school shows, I have a predisposition against them. I admit I've never really understood the broad cultural appeal of shows and movies about high school. I didn't like high schoolers when I was one, and I have very little interest in them now that I'm an adult. There are exceptions--I LOVE Friday Night Lights, for instance--but the fact that Glee is set in a high school is something the good points of the show would need to outweigh, in my mind, rather than something that automatically works in its favor. So quite possibly it was never going to be my thing ( ... )