Aww, a cute music video by Mark Salling (Puck) paying tribute to his "Glee" family.

I may have died from how cute that was.

Fun episode, though.

Meh. I never thought I'd see a fat suit episode of any show that made me miss fat suit Monica on Friends, but that one came damn close (sure, fat suit Monica was mostly insulting, but she was also still mostly recognizably Monica, and Chandler still utterly loved her).

And it just seems like an overly brief, careless waste of a long, long, intense, interesting-and-complex-and-messy-for-both-characters build-up.

The stakeout station wagon scene was pretty good, though, and I now have huge love for Lily in her horror at finding out that the Death Star was full of human beings (unlike Lily, I have a longstanding geeky love for Star Wars, and can even remember pestering my dad to take us to the only movie memorabilia shop in Berkeley in 1977 to buy up a ton of Star Wars posters and mugs and tie-in novels and possibly beach towels for my brothers and me--but I still remember having the exact same reaction when I first saw it; surely they weren't all, every single one, completely evil? Surely there was one guy, maybe a janitor, who was just there because he needed a job, and now his wife and kids wouldn't even get a body for a funeral! Sure, the Death Star was deathy and all, but this just seemed a little mean).

surely they weren't all, every single one, completely evil? Surely there was one guy, maybe a janitor, who was just there because he needed a job, and now his wife and kids wouldn't even get a body for a funeral!

Grant Morrison addresses this very subject in The Invisibles. Pretty great story actually. (By "this very issue" I mean bad guy minion body count rather than Death Star janitors.)

A good review of Glee's ep this week by Mo Ryan of the Chicago Trib, complete with a few clips and link to one of the songs at the end. Loved this bit:

I must acknowledge the show's addictive elements. Dolton native Jane Lynch is giving one of the best performances on television as cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, a driven woman who would be better suited to a gig as the dictator of [a] small, fearful country. I must also note Iqbal Theba, who plays Principal Figgins with a perfectly calibrated mixture of world-weary ennui and canny opportunism.

Um, a little preview song for Glee (I believe this will be on tonight's ep)-- Proud Mary," sung by Tina and (I think) one of the footballer backup guys. This a freakin' amazing version!! It might be my favorite song yet this season. Can't wait to see it performed on screen!

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Good lord, that video was precious. What a cutiehead he is.

Dip and nunchaku! Oh, Puck.

I'm not sure if Puck or Kurt is my favorite right now.

I ... I did not like this episode much. I will go into more datail later, after the west coast airing.

I didn't think it was possible for Puck to be a woobie, but he totally is! And I am really disliking Quinn a lot.

Loved the scenes with Kurt and his dad. Of course, I'm still wondering how Kurt is affording Alexander McQueen. I wonder if he got his SUV back. (my supposition is that whatever killed his mom resulted in a big lawsuit/settlement)