[reaction post] glee 2.12: silly love songs: satora

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[reaction post] glee 2.12: silly love songs

Feb 09, 2011 00:19

Puck/Lauren:
- where the hell do I even start with this brilliance.
- "I spell woman Z-I-Z-E-S."
- I love that it's made clear throughout the episode that Lauren does really in fact like Puck, but that she wants to make sure that he means it. That her badass exterior, though completely real, is also slightly put on. SHE HAD TO STOP HERSELF FROM CRACKING UP IN THE LIBRARY. Lovvve.
- Lovestruck!Puck: FAVORITE. FAVORITE. FAVORITE. I love how he keeps being forced to confess the aspects he loves about Lauren until we get to the core: "You might be big, but I still like you." "I like you because of your curves." "I like your curves, but I actually really like your badassery more." And yet, I love that he's still Puck, making out with that waitress to assuage his disappointment. (I thought the waitress was Shelby for the briefest moment, and I went crazy with "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO MENTION BETH". alas, sigh.)
- Ring Pop: Dear Sam, please take note: this is how you give a girl a ring. Not some creepy promise ring a few weeks into your relationship.
- "I thought you were mixed race, and that never fails to get me going." I lol'd and side-eyed at the same time. (I thought Puck was part Latino for the longest time, too.)
- PLAYFULLY ARM WRESTLING. "LOVE DOESN'T COME IN A MINUTE." PUCK ATTEMPTING TO KISS HER ON THE CHEEK.
Santana-Lauren fight:
- Okay, I... have a lot of mixed feelings! They treated a girl-on-girl fight in a non-catfight way: AWESOME. Like the Quinn-Santana fight from earlier in the season, this was done in a serious manner instead of a "lol, absurd" way. At the same time... Santana's being thrown into lockers. I wanted to scream right alongside her because all I could think about were the bruises she'd develop from that. This is real violence. The extremeness of it caused it to not be slapstick humor, but that's how the scene was treated, and I'm not cool with that. And then Beiste comes onto the scene and just says, "Knock it off"? I don't care if Santana initiated the fight or was egging Lauren on. I don't care if Santana is considered higher on the social pyramid then Lauren. I care about the fact that Lauren is several times bigger than Santana and is one the wrestling team. I just... ISSUES. MCKINLEY HAS ISSUES.
Chris Colfer:
Kurt:
- Kurt-David: ngl, I am totally for a Kurt+David bromance. He's clearly open to Kurt's suggestions and hides a smile at "I had a cat thrown at me at a nursing home once." He was one of the only Warblers (in fact, I think he was, outside of Blaine) who interacted with Kurt during "Bills, Bills, Bills." BROMANCE, SOMEONE GIVE ME.
- You fabulous, fabulous boy. You are back, and you make snarky comments during completely inappropriate times (lol, kid, he just got fired). You've also grown up so much, and it actually makes me a bit teary eyes. Mature and strong Kurt is the best.
Warbler Meeting:
- I KEEP EDITING THIS POST.
- Telly Leung's delivery of the traumatic last off-campus performance: pitch perfect.
- lollll, everyone's offended reaction was just so great.
- "YOU MOCK US, SIR." Thad, Thad, you're my favorite. (... anyone else reminded of Scrubs' J.D.?)
Sleepover Scene:
- OH GOD, YOU KNOW WHY I LOVE THIS EPISODE SO MUCH? BECAUSE FRIENDSHIPS TAKE AS MUCH OF A FRONT SEAT AS RELATIONSHIPS, AND IT'S JUST SO WONDERFUL.
- Kurt's realization moment: TEARS. MY HEART WAS SHOT THROUGH. I felt so bad for him D: He's struggling so hard not to cry. COLFER, DID I TELL YOU YET THAT I HAVE A DOOMED CRUSH ON YOU? BECAUSE I DO. Also, he's eating pizza. That kid is depressed.
- Rachel's Plan of Genius Idiocy: Kurt's face ;alksdjf;alskdjf it's like DCFMA and Rachel's funeral all over again.
- No, seriously, DIVA TRIO IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. I want a song from all three of them. There are famous diva trio songs, right? Right? WHITNEY, BARBRA, PATTI LUPONE. And Kurt (please note: this post is a Kurt love post from me): he is so relaxed in this scene and so happy, and god, Colfer must have been so happy filming with Riley and Michele again.
- The only thing I didn't like: Mercedes, girl, calling singledom a torturous experience that will propel you to future stardom is not how you celebrate and accept singlehood. I don't know if this is a sign that Mercedes is actually very unhappy right now or if the writers just suck sometimes at sending a message.
Kurt/Blaine:
- Kurt's face+voice at "Not at all" during the first coffee shop scene. Just... so airy and hopeful and wonderful.
- I approve of allowing Kurt to finally be taller than Blaine in every scene. Good use of storytelling and visual cues.
- the juxtaposition between "When I Get You Alone" with "Silly Love Songs". WIGYA is a song about lust; it's about the willingness to promise anything to someone for the chance at sex (Well does she want me to make a vow? / Well did you want me to make it now? / On my house, on my job /On my loot, shoes, my voice, / My crew, my mind, my father's last name?). While the song doesn't say that there are no romantic feelings attached, the complete lack of any nonsexual emotion from either party certainly points in that direction.
  
  "Silly Love Songs" is... a silly little love song. That fact doesn't cheapen its meaning, though I think that it's so obnoxiously cute that it does sort of parallel how early Kurt and Blaine are in their relationship. The song lacks substance in the sense of "why"; there's only a "what" expressed ("I love you"). The feelings are there, but these two boys still have a lot of wiggle room in learning about each other.
  
  So, Blaine, who admits that he's much better at singing his feelings than talking about them, sings WIGYA to a boy he barely knows and sings bits of SLS to a boy he is getting to. I know that when the initial spoilers of WIGYA were announced, all of us wanted Blaine and Kurt to duet it together, but now I'm really glad that they didn't. Because I don't want the serious* start of their romantic relationship to be characterized by sexual romance-less feelings. I'd rather have silly young love.
  
  *by which I mean: when the writers backtracked and decided to actually create Kurt/Blaine as a couple
  
  thus ends the song analysis that the writers probably weren't even thinking about.
- Second coffee shop scene: I... am kind of in love yet at the same time ambivalent to this, because (a) I'm having a hard time reading Blaine, and (b) what I am interpreting, I'm not sure I like, so I'd love your opinions on this!
  
  What do you think Blaine's feelings are during this scene? I'm having issues interpreting Criss's delivery of "As you and about twenty mortified shoppers saw, I'm not very good at romance. I don't want to screw this up." Right now, I keep getting a "well, Kurt, you like me, and you're available, so I'm willing to give it a try; I just don't want to mess our friendship up" vs "oh, wow, I think I like you" feeling. It's very much... whatever feelings he has for Kurt are clearly not as strong as Kurt has for him (or, at least, he doesn't realize it yet), and I think he sees the difference (and Kurt does, too - Kurt's very reserved in this scene (for a ridiculously good reason), and when Blaine goes "Don't they get together in the end?", Kurt makes this face between a smug "yes" and a pinched "please don't"). I'm also worried that Blaine is beginning to idealize Kurt a little; he's just a little bit too starry-eyed after Kurt's confession. He's extra-flirty in SLS, too.
  
  I think part of the issue is that everyone was SO EXCITED AND EXUBERANT IN A CLEARLY THEY LOVE EACH OTHER manner, and even though, yeah, Kurt/Blaine is definitely endgame, I see this scene as Kurt withdrawing and Blaine (bumblingly) pushing forward. Like, seriously, Kurt's still hurting in this scene, and I think he's reacting badly to Blaine's sudden (if still ambiguous) forwardness. (yet at the same time Kurt's kind of flirty? In a "mission: distract distract" sort of way.) And so... I definitely think Blaine is going to start chasing, and Kurt's going to hold off awhile ("to all the singles out there: this year is our year").
  
  Basically, basically... Blaine's fallen off his throne in Kurt's eyes, and Kurt's not sure what to do anymore. Which is good! I'm happy for this development, and I think it really is a great conflict that doesn't involve a third person. I just... it's a rather angsty interpretation, which I'm unfortunately prone to, so I'd love your opinions.
  
  PS: Lovvvveeeed the callback to the Finn-Diana Ross scene from last year. Blaine is perfectly willing to give up Meg Ryan's part!
- BITTER!BLAINE. BITTER!BLAINE.
- Kurt's side-eye at "If he and I got married, the Gap would give me a 50% discount."
- Guys, they've always been completely honest with each other, and my communication!kink is so completely fulfilled right now. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. oh god this pairing makes my heart go ~weee~.
- @babygirlyoudashit, tumblr
Finn:
- You cocky douchebag. I don't even know where to start with you. He went from being a hypocrite to being an asshole in one fell swoop. "Oh, cheating is fine with me as long as I'm not the one being cheated on"? Fuck you. At least Quinn doesn't have your self-righteous attitude, and that's the only reason I am not raging at her right now.
- Your present to Rachel inspired feelings of "awww" within me despite the completely patronizing tone you adopted. Those feelings are now dead because see bullet point 1: Cocky asshole douchebag.
- Mercedes' "BITCH, PLEASE" faces when Finn talks to the Glee club? SO GOOD SO GOOD.
- I will say this: if Finn stays characterized like this but is never glorified for it? I am totally cool with that.
Mike/Tina, Artie/Brittany:
- lolsob I spent so much of the first viewing freaking out that the writers would spring a horrible retcon Tina/Artie storyline that I didn't get to enjoy all their wonderful scenes together. The "NO DRAMA" bit did not ease my fears D:
- PIGGYBACK RIDES ♥♥♥
- "My Funny Valentine": at first, I was freaking out due to the above fear of Artie/Tina and so the crying made me :// severely. However, once I realized she was crying because her love for Mike made her so emotional I couldn't stop laughing. It was brilliantly, awkwardly, painfully funny. I mean, yeah, I wish Tina could have sung properly to Mike (and this is the second time something like this has happened), but... it was such a great scene.
- RADDEST GIRLS IN SCHOOL. WE'RE DOPE. Mike and Artie's entire scene and song were so brilliant. And yet strangely bittersweet because Mike dancing with Artie reminded me of Artie's dream to be a dancer. This is also the first time that I was actually okay with the idea of Brittany/Artie. (PS: Brittany: that outfit was smashing.)
- "I have one word for you." "Is it love? TOTALLY GOING TO GRADUATE."
Santana:
- Santana, you marvelous, marvelous character. I was so in-tune with Santana this episode. I loved her teary confession that she tries to be honest to people when she thinks that they suck. I loved how she has to confront the fact that people don't like her (but, Rachel, honey? Stripper comment: completely out of line). I loved how the writers are giving her this actually rather developed plotline over many episodes about loneliness and her (self-)destructive ways of overcoming it. I loved her revenge scheme and how she pulled it off. I went flailing D: when I saw her sitting alone at Breadstix.
- I ship Wes/Santana. I ship it hard. The Sam/Santana moment at the end was cute, but Wes/Santana? Hot. Fandom, please take advantage of that single moment and run with it.
- "Sometimes love doesn't come at all." Lolll, I loved the moment of slight Blaine!douchiness and Santana's face. Wes was totally doing damage control. And Rachel's :O face! She was so horrified for her. (Sooner or later, I want a Santana-Rachel scene where they lay everything out on the table and then come to an understand and then become friends.)
Rachel:
- My proudest moment for her: when she didn't even try to bring up Finn's absolute hypocrisy in the nurse's room. She took the high road, and she absolutely owned that moment.
- Never accept Finn back, Rachel. Just don't.
- "Firework" was a lot of fun! The song sounded a bit strange - the autotune took away a lot of Lea's voice and her interpretation, and there were some really strange pauses. Yet! It was just amazingly done, context-wise and editing wise. I loved the fact that it was mostly a fantasy sequence. what a ridiculous fire hazard. THEY HAD HER SING IN FRONT OF A MIRROR AGAIN WITH HER HAIRBRUSH. FIERCE RACHEL IS FIERCE AND WONDERFUL.
- You know what else I liked about the performance? Watching her, I really felt that feeling again: a clear recognition that Rachel is the strongest set of vocals in New Directions. She exuded "talent" and "leadership" here. It was interesting to see the cuts to the other characters, because I got a distinct sense that they were actively recognizing it, too, at that moment.
- I'm so glad she no longer has a fringe. You were not rocking that look, Rachel.
- When she entered Breadstix and sat all by herself looking really sad and dejected and then Mike, Tina, and Mercedes showed up and invited themselves to the table and she smiled so beautifully and then Kurt purposely focused on them and sent I <3 U with his hands and they all just admired each other and THIS SHOW I LOVE IT SO MUCH WHEN IT DOES THINGS RIGHTS.

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okay, dear kurt_blaine community: sometimes people will disagree with your opinion. sometimes they won't like the same thing 100%. often, they will provide well thought-out reasons as to why they feel like this. there is no need to be snarky, and there is no need to dismiss the entirety of their argument as foolish and immature. it's one thing to express that type of criticism in the privacy of your own journal, another to display it on a community entry where people are trying to enjoy themselves.

i've seen the above scenario occur several times before in the community, and it's basically the only time that I feel :/ about it.

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Dear Glee writers: Thank you. This episode blew me out of the water.

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