Glee: Discusion Thread

[Mr. Vixen]

Did anyone else catch Lady Jane from GH in the episode?

Also SOOOOOO pissed that Lauren Zises out of Glee Club. she was the ONLY good part of the show for me last season. Hopefully she stays around in some capacity.

[John]

MAJOR SPOILER FROM TVLINE

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Question: Any scoop about Glee‘s Karofsky? —Dalanda

Ausiello: He’s baaaaaack! Or at least he will be come late October, when Kurt has a very awkward run-in with him at a [spoiler ALERT] gay bar.

Edited September 23, 2011 by John

[Cheap21]

Eww, what the hell did Quinn do to herself?

[EricMontreal22]

Yes--and it's almos tbecome a joke--the press comments on it all the time. Credit where credit's due he seems to be really great at concepts and working out the initial show (I know Glee was apparently a dark, much heavier drama before he came to it)--and usually the first 13 eps or so are largely great, and then it just falls apart--characterization is inconsistent (to say the least), stories dropped, too much done for shock (of course Nip Tuck cuz of the kind of show it was was the worse at this), etc. I except the same wih American Horror Story. I wonder if RM beinginvolved with his movies and American Horror Story and Marti Noxon brought in as story consultant will help things--but the premier was basically more of the same old...

[DRW50]

Ugh I read that they're going to have a song from Fame. My favorite song from Fame, as a matter of fact. Please don't put songs from Fame on this Autotune blando. That dismal flop of a remake was bad enough.

[EricMontreal22]

Body Electric?

This week has two West Side Story songs--Darren Criss (who performs everything with the same mannerisms, etc) singing one of my faves, Something's Coming, already has me cringing from the preview.

[DRW50]

Out Here On My Own. Irene Cara just breaks your heart with that song...

I saw a video of Darren Criss doing "It's Not Unusual" and it was so bland. If not for the whole raging bigot thing I would think this was a homage to Pat Boone. He reminds me so much of Pat Boone.

Edited September 27, 2011 by CarlD2

[quartermainefan]

I think Darren Criss is super talented and the best one on the show. If you were to check him out on youtube and listen to his normal singing voice it sounds less bland

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I am not saying I would pay big money to see him, but if I was at a club and this guy started singing I would think he put on a really nice show. And it is good that while he has such a young and vanilla fanbase he exposes them to different music.

[EricMontreal22]

I do like his voice more when he does that style of music. Glee records their music so quickly, relies a bit too much on auto tune (because of that) etc, and all the other issues, do make his vocals sometimes all sound samey to me.

[JackPeyton]

Darrin Criss is great, esp live. he is very dynamic and just captivating. On Glee tho, its just like everyone else. Nobody can be special with that much autotune, and i LOVE autotune! lol.

Kurt is the boggest issue with this show. He is so unlikable. For example, he bitches for two seasons about wanting to be accepted for who he is. he gets it. now he botches because people see him as too gay? he is flamboyant and feminine. he can not believably play Tony in WSS. No way. And no, not because he is gay, because i think Blaine could very easily pull it off. Like, i get that this is an issue a lot of gay men have, but to have this character bitch, whine, and complain in order to be accepted for just who he is, and then bitch, whine, and complain about being for accepted for who he is because it doesnt work with what he wants is annoying. but then again this is the guy who wants his father to watch gay porno and lean about gay sex so he can teach him, thinks that he can sexually harass Finn and push him to a breaking point then cry victim, and is second to only Rachel is the ego & selfishness department.

Interesting that they established Blaine as a junior. We know Rach, Kurt, Finn, Quinn, Puck are seniors, do we know about the others? Santa & brittany i would assume are also seniors, and i am unsure about Tina, Mike, Artie, Mercadies, etc because ya know.. the show doesnt care about them.

But apparently next weeks epsiode is 'the best glee episode ever'

[EricMontreal22]

Didn't they make some comment that people assumed arties was a senior but he actually isn't>? I was only half paying attention...

And yeah Kurt is meant to know his musical theatre--I don't get at this point him being so clueless to think he could pull off Tony.

[quartermainefan]

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what did people think of Mike Chang? He was much better than the show has implied all this time.

[EricMontreal22]

I'm sure vocally he was helped in the studio, but yeah I guess they'll happily forget about the fact he apparently can't sing...

[JackPeyton]

aActually, they adressed it by saying tina had been working with him and he had been practicing a lot. And he was still far from great, just decent.

The episode really was one of the best the show has done, sadly thats not saying much. It was nice to have a littl break from the Kurt&Rachel Show, but im sure next week it will be all about them again.

[EricMontreal22]

It was better than nearly all of last season--I still think the first half of season one was a lot stronger, but I admit the character and story stuff--even when it is dpretty stupid, has so far been more consistant (of couse it's been three episodes) than last year. Maybe consulting producer Marti Noxon, etc, are helping a bit. I am kinda tired of Mercedes vs Rachel though, I thought we played that out already.

I think I missed that line--ven if not amazing it's a big change from when he sang Sing from Chorus Line and couldn't hold one note, to singing one of the more rhythmically and key change challenging songs in classic musical theatre...

Edited October 7, 2011 by EricMontreal22