A nice discussion of the Issues of Glee: [link]
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Jesse - Jun 10, 2010 11:14:00 am PDT #2719 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Jun 10, 2010 11:52:08 am PDT #2720 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Daisy Jane - Jun 10, 2010 11:53:19 am PDT #2721 of 8624
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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"?
Dana - Jun 10, 2010 11:53:46 am PDT #2722 of 8624
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, but Tina admitted in an earlier episode with Artie that she was faking it.
Daisy Jane - Jun 10, 2010 11:54:43 am PDT #2723 of 8624
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Huh. Don't remember.
Kathy A - Jun 10, 2010 11:58:44 am PDT #2724 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That was when Artie went off to sing "Dancing with Myself."
DavidS - Jun 10, 2010 11:59:07 am PDT #2725 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"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.
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2010 12:07:43 pm PDT #2726 of 8624
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Tina definitely said in a previous episode that she'd been faking her stutter. It was something like that she was shy and didn't want attention, so if she stuttered, then people would think she was weird and would ignore her. (Which doesn't at all make coincide with the experience of jr. high and high school of any actual stutterer I know -- stuttering doesn't make people ignore you, it makes people mock you -- but, well, it's Glee.)
Liese S. - Jun 10, 2010 12:10:37 pm PDT #2727 of 8624
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I liked it ok. Def agree that I would have liked to see something else from the Vocal Adrenaline performance, and while the chore was great it was way too much of a Jesse showpiece. And I don`t think he played.
As opposed to Puck, whose actor clearly can play and I loved that piece. Well, I love Israel anyway, so I was going to. But it was an uke and guitar duet with Will and Puck!
Vortex - Jun 10, 2010 12:13:46 pm PDT #2728 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm not sure how I feel about that assesment of Glee (and Tiger Beatdown in general. i want to like it. but . . . I digress), but it did bring one thing to mind -- somebody needs to bring back Cop Rock in reruns - Lifetime, Bravo, Retro Network, I'M LOOKING AT YOU!