Glee "Born This Way" reactions

[weyrdchic]

Collected from various locations, including Tumblr and a few different comms, because I was out late last night after the episode getting someone from the airport but I needs to get my meta on:

Comments

[rm]

I loved the Klaine stuff. I think their body language with each other is so right, I can't get over it. I love how Kurt's a bit "yes, we've agreed that this is true, but can we not talk about my safety as if I can't handle myself" in that convo -- and it's not about Blaine, it's about the whole fucking mess. You can also see that Blaine is so "Kurt would go back if he could" because he doesn't think it'll happen

[maplelump]

How is it that you articulate everything I felt from the episode so much better than I do?

A+++++++

All the Wemma stuff, damn straight.

The Faberry duet, was spectacular, loved it, SOWK, amazing, Kurt, LINSGB amazing, about time we had another Kurt solo. ;)

[rm]

OMG, how could I forget LINSGB. It was just jaw-dropping.

[weyrdchic]

I keep forgetting it which is unforgivable, it almost goes without saying that it was the most flawless song selection and performance and GUH. I was debating right up to the episode premiere about whether Kurt's theatricality was contained at Dalton, and it was more reined in, but it was never GONE. It's who he is, it's the skin he's most comfortable in, and you could tell Blaine saw that in an instant. And how much Kurt misses it. But you can't kill that in him with a uniform after years of building up the strength to inhabit it, and now he's learned to make it deliberate and purposed and to glow inside it. As he deserves.

[rm]

Yes. And I can just imagine him picking out that song and working on it in front of Blaine, knowing he's going back, and it's just awesome.

[fauxkaren]

WILL SHUESTER IS THE WORST EVER. I hate him so much and I hate that Wemma is end game. Emma deserves so much better.

Glee has really good intentions, but then they just over simplify everything and it just becomes incredibly patronizing. Uuuugh.

lol Idek why I keep watching.

[wthis_pattys]

Haha I have the opposite view on Quinn, really.

Though I like it because of the parallel between her emotional state and her physical one.
Coming from a house where all bad emotions are hidden, and how she covers up her pregnancy and pretends nothing bad ever happened + covering up the way you look if you don't like it = the plastic surgery isn't just that, it's what everything Quinn's character represents is.

I liked Wemma. Because of the therapy scene, but also, I liked that Will generally had the correct view(you gotta accept the fact that you have a problem to overcome it.) but then approached it completely wrong because people without OCD just don't understand how hard it is to stop it. I mean. It's a very very realistic reaction imo.

[weyrdchic]

I agree with both Wemma and Quinn that it makes sense in a character way, it's sort of fascinating, it's just all the implications that were surrounding both those things that were never addressed and that were oversimplified in the worst possible way.

And so many people try to intervene exactly how Will does, and they wind up hurting people all the worse for it, and alienating them - like it is proven through research that this happens. Here they made it look like he was right not just in saying she needed to confront it, but in how he told her to do so, and that it makes him her savior in some kind of fucked up way. I have told people to get help before, I have flat-out called them cowardly for not doing so, but it was after trying everything else and it certainly wasn't when all my personal issues were tied up in a relationship with them. And it was wrong of me then, too. He should have been called out for it, because every time I hear how in love with himself as an educator he is I want to show him every single thing he's

[wthis_pattys]

Well

Let me just say about Will: I was SO GLAD this episode had Will and Emma trying to communicate as friends in stead of rushing into a relationship again, it was hard to disappoint me.

[whenidance]

I don't think SOWK was overacted either - I think it was sort of Blaine falling apart, after he told Kurt he wanted this for him and he knew it would be okay and then it just HIT HIM. Poor bb looked so sad, and I am SO disappointed we didn't get to see more of them, even if we didn't see the discussion (which I think we really needed to freaking see), just throwing Blaine in the mall scene would have made me feel better

[weyrdchic]

I just need one Kurt and Blaine scene lampshading some of the headcanon things that get confirmed for me over and over again, there's so much unsaid in everything between them that has never been refuted for me, but that I need confirmed in text just so some people will shut up about it.

Quinn thing made sense enough, it was just...so out of nowhere, and so unprompted and unearned in terms of the weight of what was done to her, and the implications for the whole changing yourself thing were a little messed up. I'd have just framed it way better if they were going there, and I still don't understand why Puck, of all people, was willing to take part in it. He loves Lauren, but this is Quinn. Like, his baby's mother, Quinn. Who he was in love with last year. What happened to that, btw?

[whenidance]

Yeah the Puck thing TOTALLY THREW ME. It would have been nice to have a line where he told Lauren it was too far even for him, just to put it out there how WRONG it was. Because I thought it was Lauren on her own but I forgot he broke in with her.

Exactly on the Klaine stuff - I'm not worried about where they're headed but it would be nice to be a little more explicit so some people get it. LOL.

[whenidance]

My feelings were the opposite. I saw Puck and Lauren watching Quinn put up the poster, Lauren going on about how she's the prom Queen personified and seeing how Quinn treated him last year and basically tossed him out when Sam came in, he'd want to change things a little. I can understand breaking into the office with Lauren, they were checking up on Quinn's past but the only thing they found was the transfer record. After that, Lauren was telling the story. She called the school, SHE paid a visit and found the year book and she is the president of the AV club with the ability to create posters that are humiliating. Like the Mercedes thing last week, I doubt very much Puck was involved with going so far. At that point, he was more concerned with Rachel and her lack of self esteem and Jew pride. A scene was necessary I think because I don't believe he'd go that far, Lauren never implicated him in the idea of the poster for Lucy but a scene clarifying that would apparently be too much to ask.