So that's what you missed..
Mar. 16th, 2011 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneon OMG. Some of you must be up-to-date with the Glee that's just aired in the US, surely it can't just be me? Can I just run this down the awesome of the last couple of episodes, as if anyone cares?
- Santana. Oh, oh, Santana. I had resigned myself to your relationship with Brittany being a throwaway joke, forgotten about.. and now it's a story about your fear of emotional vulnerability, your heart being broken for the first time, you "fully-realised three-dimensional character who just happens to be queer"!
- Lauren Zizes. OK, they're on a knife-edge with this one, and they have a morbid obsession with covering her upper arms (even when this means that her dress is *completely different to everyone else's at regionals*), but even when she was the offensive background character "fat girl who's always eating candy", they at least showed that she had kickass skills with AV and wrestling. And that one random episode where she was a goth. She gets to be a love interest in a way that I don't think they're playing for laughs, and although the discourse around her is still dubious (I don't get why, given that she was offended by Puck singing 'Fat Bottomed Girls', she wasn't offended by all of the fat jokes in "Big Ass.. Heart"), she basically rocks my world by being hot, happy, confident, and fat. As Liss from Shakesville would say, that in itself is a radical act.
- Kurt & Blaine. So much boykissing in one episode of a Fox show! Some part of me worries, though, that it might be a trade-off.. "give us one episode with tons of boykissing and a big gay duet.. and then we'll axe the Warblers sub-plot entirely when they lose at regionals".
A lot of the concerns I had in series one have been cleared up - Kurt's single stereotypical gay character has been supplemented by Brittany/Santana, and by Blaine being the Will Truman to his pre-sexual Jack McFarland. There are two gorgeous confident fat women being awesome all over the place. Shame that it sucks pretty badly on the disability and race fronts, really. I have to keep a critical eye on those things otherwise I'm gonna internalise some pretty nasty shit without thinking about it.
But.. original songs? Hell to the no. I'm starting to think that Glee singles on iTunes might contribute to some weird postmodern audience participation thing.. if nobody buys the original songs, maybe they won't write any more. If everybody buys Kurt songs, Santana songs, Mercedes songs, and nobody buys any more goddamn Rachel Barry songs, then maybe the show will get better by moving towards "what the market wants"?
- Santana. Oh, oh, Santana. I had resigned myself to your relationship with Brittany being a throwaway joke, forgotten about.. and now it's a story about your fear of emotional vulnerability, your heart being broken for the first time, you "fully-realised three-dimensional character who just happens to be queer"!
- Lauren Zizes. OK, they're on a knife-edge with this one, and they have a morbid obsession with covering her upper arms (even when this means that her dress is *completely different to everyone else's at regionals*), but even when she was the offensive background character "fat girl who's always eating candy", they at least showed that she had kickass skills with AV and wrestling. And that one random episode where she was a goth. She gets to be a love interest in a way that I don't think they're playing for laughs, and although the discourse around her is still dubious (I don't get why, given that she was offended by Puck singing 'Fat Bottomed Girls', she wasn't offended by all of the fat jokes in "Big Ass.. Heart"), she basically rocks my world by being hot, happy, confident, and fat. As Liss from Shakesville would say, that in itself is a radical act.
- Kurt & Blaine. So much boykissing in one episode of a Fox show! Some part of me worries, though, that it might be a trade-off.. "give us one episode with tons of boykissing and a big gay duet.. and then we'll axe the Warblers sub-plot entirely when they lose at regionals".
A lot of the concerns I had in series one have been cleared up - Kurt's single stereotypical gay character has been supplemented by Brittany/Santana, and by Blaine being the Will Truman to his pre-sexual Jack McFarland. There are two gorgeous confident fat women being awesome all over the place. Shame that it sucks pretty badly on the disability and race fronts, really. I have to keep a critical eye on those things otherwise I'm gonna internalise some pretty nasty shit without thinking about it.
But.. original songs? Hell to the no. I'm starting to think that Glee singles on iTunes might contribute to some weird postmodern audience participation thing.. if nobody buys the original songs, maybe they won't write any more. If everybody buys Kurt songs, Santana songs, Mercedes songs, and nobody buys any more goddamn Rachel Barry songs, then maybe the show will get better by moving towards "what the market wants"?
