Gleecap: Mash-Up (S1E8)
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Oh shit. Enter Karofsky, stage slushie. I do know this guy from future episodes. Asshole.
Okay, while I know I should be supportive of any and all willingly-embraced lifestyle choices and all... I still find Emma and Ken's impending nuptials deeply distressing. It's like she's in agony at every mention of it, and neither of them are getting their needs met, and it is all so so painful. And a mashup of ″I Wanna Dance All Night″ and ″The Thong Song″ isn't anything that I want to hear, frankly.
When Will starts busting it out in Glee rehearsal, I find myself deeply disturbed when he watching him singing about scantily-class girls that he wants to sex up... while singing to the cheerleader contingent of the club. Teacher-student relationships generally squick me out pretty hard, and this would be no exception. Kurt's colossal disinterest in this song, followed by his clear dismay at being the subject of a few lines sung by Will, is fantastic. He disapproves so hard, for whatever reason that has not yet been revealed. Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch absolutely kill me with their facial expressions and snarky lines. I *heart* them so much.
Oh Quinn, insisting that Finn's slushification is due solely to his membership in Glee club. Keep telling yourself that. While I acknowledge that their formerly more solid positions pre-Glee might have helped them weather the storm a bit better, I still doubt they would have been entirely immune to the social ramifications of teenage pregnancy. Kids are like nasty little sharks who will seek out and destroy anything weakened and tasty.
Wow. Emma's dress is... something else, isn't it? And her immediate backtracking about wearing the dress during dance practice so as not to wind up fighting at the wedding and getting a divorce within months like her sister – is she backtracking because she's worried that Will finds her concern weird or because she's hoping for a quick divorce? NOT A HEALTHY WAY TO START A MARRIAGE, DEAR!
OH GOD! WILL! Do not keep lifting up her dress like that! That will totally get you in trouble! Oh crap. There's Ken watching them flirt. You guys! Please grow up and realize that if you cannot control yourselves in each others' presence, you need to make the decision to not be around each other.
Oh goody, more football team jock homophobia. Just what we all needed. And ultimatums. Mmmmm, love a good ultimatum.
And now Rachel is singing into her hairbrush-microphone while... Puck? Plays his guitar for her? And then she agrees to make out with him. Ummm. Did I miss something? Puck/Rachel? What? And then Puck voiceovers that his family has a grand Jewish tradition of watching Schindler's List while eating pork. Umm, okay? And apparently watching Nazis do bad things encourages Puck's mom to tearfully question Puck's choices in life and failure to date a nice Jewish girl. And who is the only Jewish lead female cast member that we know of? Ah, right. I get it now.
Also? More gratuitous half-naked Puck. (Still not complaining, mind you)
Oh god. Rachel imagines Finn in Puck's place while they make out? And she's also apparently self-aware about her high maintenance nature. Huh. Go figure.
Oh God. Puck is singing ″Sweet Caroline.″ And he's pretty good. I do not want to find this boy sexy guys. Make him stop!
Quinn and Finn look stupid in their shades. Sad, but true. And grape slushies? The yuckiest flavor of all? Ewwww.
Sue has a date. With Mr. Sleaze. I'm not sure what to think of this. And now she's dancing – swing? - with Will. What is going on. Is this supposed to simulate the audience being high?
And even Sue at her nicest is pretty abrasive and painfully honest. Alright then. And she drops the bomb about Coach Ken's plan to sabotage Glee club, which leads to a Will-Ken showdown. The jocks must choose between Glee and football. Oh dear.
And then Puck gets slushied while escorting Rachel through the halls of McKinley. How he managed to just stand there in shock and not messily murder the perpetrator is beyond me. And then he confesses his feelings to Rachel and apologizes to her for having slushied her in the past. I'm... okay, so this may be the formerly bullied teenager in me talking, but I am having a hard time seeing Puck, the former Glee club tormentor, as the former tormentor. He's giving this nice little speech that any taken-advantage-of kid would love to hear and it is totally wish fulfillment for bullying victims. But the jaded person in me also distrusts him and questions the honesty of his statement too. Is he putting on a front to look good, to get into Rachel's pants?
Wedding dress and dance part 2: Wow. Emma looks stunning. And Will messing around with the garter belt thingie is also amusing. EMMA SINGS? Oh. Wow. Cool.
Awww. After a few seconds of bitter disappointment, the Glee club watches as Mike, Rutherford, and finally Puck walk into Glee practice. Not football practice. Their choice has been made. Puck's response to Rachel's warning about impending daily slushies? ″Bring it.″ Awwww. You guys! * sniff * Do I need to start liking him now?
However, all is not perfect in their gleek paradise. Where is Finn? Finn, it would seem, is a turncoat coward. Or something. Or maybe he's just tired of being slushied. Is he going to have to prove himself by slushie-ing everyone else in Glee, all his former friends? Could this be his impending dilemma? Also, Glee club has been one big revolving door after another. Are people going to continue to constantly quit and rejoin episode after episode?
Wow. Apparently my predictions are going to come true in the very next scene. I kinda think I'm awesome, but then, it's isn't exactly a great leap. Why is he setting his slushie-sights on Kurt, I wonder? And can he grow a pair before he follows through with that crappy plan?
Nope! Apparently Kurt is going to just get it over with and take one for the team by grabbing the slushie from Finn and pouring it all over himself. Does that even count? Will Finn still get credit? Also, is this Kurt taking pity on Finn's predicament? Or Kurt trying to garner favor from the guy he's got a crush on? WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE. Oh, I see. He's using it to make a point about friendship and loyalty. Is Finn bright enough to take it to heart?
And how is this massive slushie-slinging campaign tolerated by school administration. This is the worst-run school ever populated by nasty beastly kids and run by an apathetic or completely ineffective faculty.
Ron Remington is a cheater-pants. Or a terrible communicator. Ron makes me grit my teeth. And get the creepy crawlies. Ugh. And now I suspect that Sue will be on a rampage. This is gonna end well.
Awww. Puck. You have become surprisingly open with Rachel about all manner of things emotional. And are all the ″minor″ Glee relationships going to last about one episode and then get resolved and shelved away without any repercussions? That's... going to get old. And eventually they are going to run out of pairing permutations.
So Finn has a heart to heart with Coach Ken about Glee and football and leadership. Coach Ken winds up canceling the mandatory football practice that interfered with Glee involvement, thereby allowing his team to continue to balance both without explicitly stating support for Glee. And he told Finn to pass the message on to the rest of the Glee guys. Does this mean that Kurt's going back too? Seems like Finn implied that Kurt had burned his bridges, so perhaps not.
Okay, on to Sue's newest threat to Will. She is apparently going to get him a cat and wait until he falls in love with it... and then break into his house at night and punch him in the face. I... don't get what that has to do with the cat. I suppose that is the point, and Sue being Sue. Will, in a stunning flash of perception, figures out that Sue's romance has died. Badly. And then she publicly and coldly kicks Quinn off the cheerleading squad and calls her a disgrace. Nice.
So the team is back together (really, did we have any doubts?) and celebrating with slushies that they can drink, not wear. Will tried to soothe Quinn's fears of her imminent daily slushie-ing by telling her she's got tons of friends in Glee to help clean her up.
I think it would be more useful to, oh I don't know, try to actually put a stop to that ridiculous and shameful behavior altogether, Shuester, not just plan for how to handle the consequences of it. The message you are sending these kids is not only how to persevere (though that IS important) but that they cannot rely on the adults in their lives to stand up for them and try to put a stop to tremendous injustices that should not be tolerated. While some may see this and say that if no one else will stand up for them then they'll need to stand up for themselves, others will just see it as more proof that they aren't worthy of having protectors, that the behavior is right and deserved, and that there isn't any point in trying to change the status quo. The slushies and name-calling are just the symptoms of the larger problems: bullying, homophobia, the high school caste-system, racism, ableism, and more.
And somehow this turned into my rant against the frustrations of my own high school years. This is why I was so resistant to Glee in the first place, folks. Because high school sucked and I get absolutely no pleasure out of reliving those shitty years of my life through an over-the-top, stereotyped dramedy that masquerades as having a moral and deeper message.
Good thing I'm already hooked.
Oh shit. Enter Karofsky, stage slushie. I do know this guy from future episodes. Asshole.
Okay, while I know I should be supportive of any and all willingly-embraced lifestyle choices and all... I still find Emma and Ken's impending nuptials deeply distressing. It's like she's in agony at every mention of it, and neither of them are getting their needs met, and it is all so so painful. And a mashup of ″I Wanna Dance All Night″ and ″The Thong Song″ isn't anything that I want to hear, frankly.
When Will starts busting it out in Glee rehearsal, I find myself deeply disturbed when he watching him singing about scantily-class girls that he wants to sex up... while singing to the cheerleader contingent of the club. Teacher-student relationships generally squick me out pretty hard, and this would be no exception. Kurt's colossal disinterest in this song, followed by his clear dismay at being the subject of a few lines sung by Will, is fantastic. He disapproves so hard, for whatever reason that has not yet been revealed. Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch absolutely kill me with their facial expressions and snarky lines. I *heart* them so much.
Oh Quinn, insisting that Finn's slushification is due solely to his membership in Glee club. Keep telling yourself that. While I acknowledge that their formerly more solid positions pre-Glee might have helped them weather the storm a bit better, I still doubt they would have been entirely immune to the social ramifications of teenage pregnancy. Kids are like nasty little sharks who will seek out and destroy anything weakened and tasty.
Wow. Emma's dress is... something else, isn't it? And her immediate backtracking about wearing the dress during dance practice so as not to wind up fighting at the wedding and getting a divorce within months like her sister – is she backtracking because she's worried that Will finds her concern weird or because she's hoping for a quick divorce? NOT A HEALTHY WAY TO START A MARRIAGE, DEAR!
OH GOD! WILL! Do not keep lifting up her dress like that! That will totally get you in trouble! Oh crap. There's Ken watching them flirt. You guys! Please grow up and realize that if you cannot control yourselves in each others' presence, you need to make the decision to not be around each other.
Oh goody, more football team jock homophobia. Just what we all needed. And ultimatums. Mmmmm, love a good ultimatum.
And now Rachel is singing into her hairbrush-microphone while... Puck? Plays his guitar for her? And then she agrees to make out with him. Ummm. Did I miss something? Puck/Rachel? What? And then Puck voiceovers that his family has a grand Jewish tradition of watching Schindler's List while eating pork. Umm, okay? And apparently watching Nazis do bad things encourages Puck's mom to tearfully question Puck's choices in life and failure to date a nice Jewish girl. And who is the only Jewish lead female cast member that we know of? Ah, right. I get it now.
Also? More gratuitous half-naked Puck. (Still not complaining, mind you)
Oh god. Rachel imagines Finn in Puck's place while they make out? And she's also apparently self-aware about her high maintenance nature. Huh. Go figure.
Oh God. Puck is singing ″Sweet Caroline.″ And he's pretty good. I do not want to find this boy sexy guys. Make him stop!
Quinn and Finn look stupid in their shades. Sad, but true. And grape slushies? The yuckiest flavor of all? Ewwww.
Sue has a date. With Mr. Sleaze. I'm not sure what to think of this. And now she's dancing – swing? - with Will. What is going on. Is this supposed to simulate the audience being high?
And even Sue at her nicest is pretty abrasive and painfully honest. Alright then. And she drops the bomb about Coach Ken's plan to sabotage Glee club, which leads to a Will-Ken showdown. The jocks must choose between Glee and football. Oh dear.
And then Puck gets slushied while escorting Rachel through the halls of McKinley. How he managed to just stand there in shock and not messily murder the perpetrator is beyond me. And then he confesses his feelings to Rachel and apologizes to her for having slushied her in the past. I'm... okay, so this may be the formerly bullied teenager in me talking, but I am having a hard time seeing Puck, the former Glee club tormentor, as the former tormentor. He's giving this nice little speech that any taken-advantage-of kid would love to hear and it is totally wish fulfillment for bullying victims. But the jaded person in me also distrusts him and questions the honesty of his statement too. Is he putting on a front to look good, to get into Rachel's pants?
Wedding dress and dance part 2: Wow. Emma looks stunning. And Will messing around with the garter belt thingie is also amusing. EMMA SINGS? Oh. Wow. Cool.
Awww. After a few seconds of bitter disappointment, the Glee club watches as Mike, Rutherford, and finally Puck walk into Glee practice. Not football practice. Their choice has been made. Puck's response to Rachel's warning about impending daily slushies? ″Bring it.″ Awwww. You guys! * sniff * Do I need to start liking him now?
However, all is not perfect in their gleek paradise. Where is Finn? Finn, it would seem, is a turncoat coward. Or something. Or maybe he's just tired of being slushied. Is he going to have to prove himself by slushie-ing everyone else in Glee, all his former friends? Could this be his impending dilemma? Also, Glee club has been one big revolving door after another. Are people going to continue to constantly quit and rejoin episode after episode?
Wow. Apparently my predictions are going to come true in the very next scene. I kinda think I'm awesome, but then, it's isn't exactly a great leap. Why is he setting his slushie-sights on Kurt, I wonder? And can he grow a pair before he follows through with that crappy plan?
Nope! Apparently Kurt is going to just get it over with and take one for the team by grabbing the slushie from Finn and pouring it all over himself. Does that even count? Will Finn still get credit? Also, is this Kurt taking pity on Finn's predicament? Or Kurt trying to garner favor from the guy he's got a crush on? WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE. Oh, I see. He's using it to make a point about friendship and loyalty. Is Finn bright enough to take it to heart?
And how is this massive slushie-slinging campaign tolerated by school administration. This is the worst-run school ever populated by nasty beastly kids and run by an apathetic or completely ineffective faculty.
Ron Remington is a cheater-pants. Or a terrible communicator. Ron makes me grit my teeth. And get the creepy crawlies. Ugh. And now I suspect that Sue will be on a rampage. This is gonna end well.
Awww. Puck. You have become surprisingly open with Rachel about all manner of things emotional. And are all the ″minor″ Glee relationships going to last about one episode and then get resolved and shelved away without any repercussions? That's... going to get old. And eventually they are going to run out of pairing permutations.
So Finn has a heart to heart with Coach Ken about Glee and football and leadership. Coach Ken winds up canceling the mandatory football practice that interfered with Glee involvement, thereby allowing his team to continue to balance both without explicitly stating support for Glee. And he told Finn to pass the message on to the rest of the Glee guys. Does this mean that Kurt's going back too? Seems like Finn implied that Kurt had burned his bridges, so perhaps not.
Okay, on to Sue's newest threat to Will. She is apparently going to get him a cat and wait until he falls in love with it... and then break into his house at night and punch him in the face. I... don't get what that has to do with the cat. I suppose that is the point, and Sue being Sue. Will, in a stunning flash of perception, figures out that Sue's romance has died. Badly. And then she publicly and coldly kicks Quinn off the cheerleading squad and calls her a disgrace. Nice.
So the team is back together (really, did we have any doubts?) and celebrating with slushies that they can drink, not wear. Will tried to soothe Quinn's fears of her imminent daily slushie-ing by telling her she's got tons of friends in Glee to help clean her up.
I think it would be more useful to, oh I don't know, try to actually put a stop to that ridiculous and shameful behavior altogether, Shuester, not just plan for how to handle the consequences of it. The message you are sending these kids is not only how to persevere (though that IS important) but that they cannot rely on the adults in their lives to stand up for them and try to put a stop to tremendous injustices that should not be tolerated. While some may see this and say that if no one else will stand up for them then they'll need to stand up for themselves, others will just see it as more proof that they aren't worthy of having protectors, that the behavior is right and deserved, and that there isn't any point in trying to change the status quo. The slushies and name-calling are just the symptoms of the larger problems: bullying, homophobia, the high school caste-system, racism, ableism, and more.
And somehow this turned into my rant against the frustrations of my own high school years. This is why I was so resistant to Glee in the first place, folks. Because high school sucked and I get absolutely no pleasure out of reliving those shitty years of my life through an over-the-top, stereotyped dramedy that masquerades as having a moral and deeper message.
Good thing I'm already hooked.
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Date: 2011-06-22 01:21 pm (UTC)Oh, Puck/Rachel. Still my favorite Rachel ship, but I think a good part of that is because how much I loathe Finn.
Yes. This show IS absolutely ridiculous. And addictive.
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Date: 2011-06-22 02:34 pm (UTC)I think Rachel/Fame is the only likely pairing that really works for her in the long run. At this point, Rachel/Finn makes me cringe. And I know it's not over yet.
And yet I still find it addictive. How? Why so addictIve, show?