Actually, I thought some of the writing was pretty funny:
Kurt: "I can get Ahi tartar and a steak from room service. I feel like Eloise."
Brittney: "I have pills for that."
Goolsby: "My kids are at least attractive. Your kids look like they haven't been baked properly."
Jessie: "...[the judges] will think you're common and vulgar and it cost you Nationals. Hi Rachel, you look amazing but you just shouldn't have kissed him."
Even though I usually dig Jonathan Groff, he plays such a slime on this show, and clearly is way too old to play a 20-year-old college drop-out (yet does a good job at it, really, because he's an actor who's so likeable, *except* when playing this guy). But he didn't miss a beat with his little jealous speech, and it came off...funny. For playing a jock who's been a ninny all season, Cory Monteith finally gives Finn some swagger when he steps into the frame and tells him to back off. (Even his "it was the Superman of kisses...it came with its own cape" was cute. And yeah, corny. So?)
Even Patti LuPone's cameo wasn't over-done, and her "...he's cute" at Sardi's was cute.
May I also say, I like how confident Blaine is, within himself. He just gazes at Kurt and un-apologetically says "I love you." And Kurt, instead of freaking out, returns the sentiment. Agreed--Chris Colfer is doing an excellent job. Between him and Kurt, and Finn and Rachel (or Quinn and Finn, whatever), there are a lot of "love" confessions on this show, and that's not really typical for high-schoolers to be able to express. Not sure if I'm annoyed at that, or pleased that TV is trying to influence the way teens speak to each other. ("Dawson's Creek" sort of did the same thing, but I'm not sure how well it worked in reality!)
Question to Strummergirl: What do you mean, Finn must find his calling though he's had two girlfriends who have realized what he'll be "falling into" before too long? True, I didn't watch last season and missed some of the first half of this one, but the only implication is that Finn is a small-town jock who might wind up staying in Ohio after graduation. Yet in the glee club, he shines and clearly has more layers to him, so who's to predict where any of these kids could wind up.
Also, side-note: In the final scene, in the background, did anyone notice how Quinn goes "hiya!" to Finn, playfully slaps him, and brings him into the group for the meeting? She was seething at him a day before, but suddenly she's palling around with him? Small thing, but I noticed. And though I'm sick of her selfish seething, it played weird considering their storyline.)
It's also annoying that most of them are in their mid- to late-20s and are playing people 10 years younger, but then again, "Fame" did the same thing in my day, so it just is what it is, I guess. Guilty pleasure for this 30-something ex-theatre kid, so of course I'll keep watching!
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
