Got to see the season finale last night:
I'd be a bad celebrity. If I were a singer of popularity judging a glee club contest in which the identity of the judges wasn't known beforehand, I might let one club get away with using the songs of one of the celebrity musical judges -- coincidences happen. I'd probably mark down Aural Intensity for
just happening
to perform a mash-up of the songs of both celebrity musical judges.
Did anyone else think "Bohemian Rhapsody" was more a solo for Jesse than a group song?
I know there was some criticism of "To Sir With Love," but Rachel owned it. I haven't been watching long, but it seems that she has a great voice but too often is given songs that don't fit her. This song does. (And at the risk of iconoclasm, I'll say that she's miscast in "Don't Stop Believin'.")
Great last scene between Sue and Schu. Note to the writers: Don't let them be friends, and above all, don't let them sleep together. Although I'd like to see them as reluctant allies against a common enemy. Oh, okay, let them sleep together once, but only if each of them realizes it was the biggest mistake of their lives afterward.
but it seems that she has a great voice but too often is given songs that don't fit her.
Definitely. And I think she weakens her sound to try to match better with Finn, too.
Ok, WTF. I'm all with the hand wavery and all but really, Sue as a former co-director of one of the competing teams being allowed to judge regionals? No f'ing way. All anyone needed to do was point that out and get her booted for clear conflict of interest. I can hand wave Quin giving birth in about three minutes and her baby coming out with eyes wide open. I just can't hand wave Sue being allowed to judge, no matter how useful of a plot device it was. Sheesh.
A nice discussion of the Issues of Glee: [link]
A nice discussion of the Issues of Glee
I don't agree with her assessment of Sue Sylvester. I don't think Sue's character's POV is validated. I do think that the show's own race/gender/queer self-analysis tends to be kind of shallow, but the show is shallow and it's at least nodding at the issues.
I also don't remember Tina saying her stutter was a put on. When the kids were recounting what they "overcame" didn't she say, "I had a stutter"?
Yeah, but Tina admitted in an earlier episode with Artie that she was faking it.
That was when Artie went off to sing "Dancing with Myself."
"I had a stutter"?
"I used to stutter." Which could actually be read both ways.
I don't expect any show to hit everybody's xylophone chart of necessary statements. I just expect a show to be self-aware about its own contradictions. Anything that doesn't have contradictions, or thematic dissonance is going to be kind of flat and rote.
The very nature of the tropes of backstage musicals and melodrama (the two flavors Glee favors) tend to be historically very sexist.
Hmmm, now I'm trying to imagine a Douglas Sirk directed Glee episode. Way more interesting than the Vincent Minelli version.
