re: Glee. I'm still struggling to articulate how I feel about the deaf glee club. As a fan of Family Guy I feel a bit hypocritical being offended by a minority group being used for comic relief but ever since the McKinley students joined the deaf students on stage during their performance it has irked me that this was treated as a good thing and not a patronizing upstaging of the deaf students' performance. Maybe I'm taking a 1/2 hour comedy too seriously.

I don't think so. I was offended on behalf of the deaf students. It's all well and good to support them, but standing up and JOINING them onstage? totally rude. But then i was never in a show choir so maybe it's ok in that culture?

I so want to know what New Direction's third song was. Since they had two group numbers plus a ballad....what what the other one we didn't get to see?

I totally hadn't caught the Brittany and Santana bit. Nice. I still like how she was in Kurt's basement dancing in costume to "single ladies." I find her amusing. Le nubian- thanks for that link. it was a great read.

I so want to know what New Direction's third song was. Since they had two group numbers plus a ballad....what what the other one we didn't get to see?

I think it was "Somebody to Love", quinn mentioned it when they were talking before Finn came in.

I totally hadn't caught the Brittany and Santana bit.

I went back and rewatched. The line was "Sex is not dating, if it was Santana and I would be dating."

Re: the "Imagine" rehearsal - that was one of many cases on Glee where I was not sure whether what we were seeing was what was actually happening or a visual depiction of what the characters were feeling.

If anyone wants to have "Cupid" discussion, this is probably a better place than Procedurals... threads without topic are like sex without spanking.

Ahahaha.

Thanks for moving us over erika. I wasn't sure comedy quite fit the bill considering how much Dram there is in this particular dramedy. But, yeah. Anywhere it fits is good with me.

While sucking up the Piven/Cupid episodes last night, I was completely charmed and re-impressed with Harry Groener's song and dance ep. He is clearly a natural...and carried off the fine line between poignant and optimistic with great grace.

I also loved how they kept the mystery about Trevor's identity. Each time the other characters had a 'gotcha' moment, there ended up being a logical explanation for how their thinking was wrong. The writers didn't go to K-Paxland with it and I appreciate that. (unless, of course, they did and I experiences hysterical blind/deafness to lalala right past it.)

Plow King lives!

I also loved how they kept the mystery about Trevor's identity. Each time the other characters had a 'gotcha' moment, there ended up being a logical explanation for how their thinking was wrong. The writers didn't go to K-Paxland with it and I appreciate that.

I enjoyed that too, bonny. They're very clever about it, too. There are some great bits in one of the unfilmed scripts.

ETA: I absolutely agree that this is not the perfect fit, but maybe Claire is right about adjusting expectations. Trevor, otoh, would be wanting to join in sex-toy chat in Bitches without introducing himself in the slightest.

Very subtle. A cynical person might say therein lies the Fail, but then the reboot, imo, was broader and still not successful.

But then there is only one Piven and Marshall and Thomas never did get to make them one of the couples looking for love like he wanted.ETA: You know, I read the scripts and retain nothing of the experience...reading scripts is not fun since I've undertaken to write one. Either it's my shitty spec, someone else's shitty spec(those are sort of encouraging, in a schadenfreude way) or it's something so good there's this voice in my head that says "You could kill yourself before you write anything half this good, right?" Although I didn't realize it affected my reading comprehension so profoundly. Billy Walsh fail.

I like that they didn't set Alex up to be either a jerk, or completely not sexy. Not that it takes much in rom-com shorthand to be established as not-sexy...it's (sarcasm font)totally fun (/sarcasm font)for me to note that any obvious physical flaw(especially allergies, for some reason) can be enough to establish a character as a non-sexy killjoy of the highest order.

HENCH LIFE