Glee reaction post
Oh my. The Rachel Berry Trainwreck House Party was one of my all-time favourite Glee moments. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Rachel be drunk in every episode, because she is a superb drunk. There were lots of lovely touches (of course Rachel would hand out drink tickets) and I liked Finn listing all the different varieties of drunk girl by cycling through the members of New Directions - Santana as the sloppy hysterical drunk was a nice surprise. I did find it a bit grating that only the girls were shown to have problems with their drinking. We couldn't have seen what sort of sloppy drunks the boys were?
The Rachel/Blaine thing was resolved too quickly. I don't care for Blaine, but it would at least have been interesting for him to question his sexuality and possibly even (gasp!) declare his bisexuality. Instead, he just decides he's only curious when he's drunk and can't kiss girls when he's sober. I'm not saying it was unrealistic, I just felt that for a potentially potent issue storyline, this was far too rushed for my personal preference.
Rachel's original song was marvellous (more songs about Rachel's accessories, please) but are we really expected to believe she doesn't know enough pain to write emotive songs? She's been slushied nearly every day of her high school life, she searched for and found her birth mother last year, she was egged by her boyfriend and his chums, her other boyfriend cheated on her with the girl who cheated on him...I mean, that's practically a career in country music right there.
Didn't have much sympathy for Kurt this week. The "OH IT'S BECAUSE I'M GAY" stuff rankled me, because I have no trouble believing Burt would've been every bit as uncomfortable if Finn had had Rachel or Quinn or Santana (ESPECIALLY Santana) staying over for the night. Growing up, my parents point-blank refused to allow any of their kids to have sex under their roof, no matter how old they were. (These rules still applied to my brother when he was in his thirties, for crying out loud.) So this was a disappointing step back for Kurt as a character, I felt.
Oh, and Brittany singing Ke$ha - awesome. Made even better by the purple vomit.
The Rachel/Blaine thing was resolved too quickly. I don't care for Blaine, but it would at least have been interesting for him to question his sexuality and possibly even (gasp!) declare his bisexuality. Instead, he just decides he's only curious when he's drunk and can't kiss girls when he's sober. I'm not saying it was unrealistic, I just felt that for a potentially potent issue storyline, this was far too rushed for my personal preference.
Rachel's original song was marvellous (more songs about Rachel's accessories, please) but are we really expected to believe she doesn't know enough pain to write emotive songs? She's been slushied nearly every day of her high school life, she searched for and found her birth mother last year, she was egged by her boyfriend and his chums, her other boyfriend cheated on her with the girl who cheated on him...I mean, that's practically a career in country music right there.
Didn't have much sympathy for Kurt this week. The "OH IT'S BECAUSE I'M GAY" stuff rankled me, because I have no trouble believing Burt would've been every bit as uncomfortable if Finn had had Rachel or Quinn or Santana (ESPECIALLY Santana) staying over for the night. Growing up, my parents point-blank refused to allow any of their kids to have sex under their roof, no matter how old they were. (These rules still applied to my brother when he was in his thirties, for crying out loud.) So this was a disappointing step back for Kurt as a character, I felt.
Oh, and Brittany singing Ke$ha - awesome. Made even better by the purple vomit.