Official Glee Love Thread (Part 2) — Page 3

The Britney episode was such a blatant case of mutual-masterbation between the Glee producers and Britney's managers, that I never warmed to the idea. Especially considering her manager started a Twitter campaign to make it happen (pretty sure Glee originally didn't have much interest), it just came across as extreme band wagoning and desperate.

I am generation-Britney, but I don't think many of my peers (musical and non, alike) would seriously cite her as an 'inspiration'. Her music is the soundtrack to our childhood and she became a running joke after her breakdown...beyond that, not a whole lot. Considering the Glee clubbers are 16, it just made the praise even more ridiculous because their generation knows Britney as the train wreck more than anything.

It's also pretty baffling how difficult Lea Michelle manages to make lip-syncing, look.

"Next episode looks much better just by virtue of the fact Puck is singing."


LOL! Agreed!

She over annunciates each word with her huge lips. It's becoming distracting.

It really, really is distracting.

Mike Chang doesn't get a solo... but he gets duet with Tina!!!



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Updated On: 9/30/10 at 12:09 AM

They are cringe inducing. She looks like she is constipated. It's hard to watch. I know Rachel is supposed to be VERY into what she is singing, but that can be conveyed without the constipated scrunchy face.

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I'd rather have heavy than what passed for an episode on Tuesday.

The kid who is going to play younger Kurt in the flashback is named Adam Kolkin, but he looks so much like Chris it's crazy! They could easily pass for brothers.

Am I the only one who thought this week's episode was a little on the odd side? There were some touching parts, but I found myself a little bored at times.

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It was at least a significant improvement over last week, but aside from "I want To Hold Your Hand," which was perfectly arranged and performed, it was overall another meh episode. One minute dead serious, the next glib and silly..I know it's always been like that, but it's not jelling like it used to.

I was glad they left Kurt a non-believer. A last minute conversion would have had me throwing the remote at the TV.

Updated On: 10/5/10 at 10:36 PM

My main issue with this week was just that, for an episode that seemed like it was lending itself to SO much great character development (especially for Kurt), they didn't go nearly as far with it as I feel like they could (and maybe should) have!

Part of it was I just had it way too built up in my head haha, but it's like... most of what I had built up, they started to touch on, they really did.

Sue's whole conversation with Emma? WHERE was that discussion for Kurt in terms of the impact that his mom dying when he was 8 years old would have had on him?? They got so close, with the "if God does exist then he's kind of a jerk" line, but instead they went down the gay path.. which I don't totally not get, but just... really, how wouldn't his mom dying come up there?

I Want To Hold Your Hand and the last scene in the hospital were fantastic, and I think if they had delved more into THAT than into a general discussion of religion (which was more or less balanced, but got a little same-ish after a while), it could have been a really amazing episode.

It felt like, instead of using the topic of faith to really delve deep into a character development that clearly lent itself to being delved into this episode, they kind of just brushed over the development and made it more about making arguments for and against religion.



That said, it still wasn't a BAD episode at all :) There were some really fantastic moments in there.

Oh and Chris Colfer is freaking amazing. The last scene got to me so. much.



OH and just one more minor qualm:
I wish they'd just kept the camera still and stopped panning during the performance parts of I Want To Hold Your Hand! haha. It was SO emotional and so good, they needed to just keep things really simple shooting wise and let the emotion speak for itself!

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Updated On: 10/5/10 at 10:48 PM

I only was able to catch the second half (but currently watching a torrent). Kurt/Chris Colfer was excellent.

I like that Kurt and Sue stood their ground and were respectful as opposed to going all antagonistic on people for their religious beliefs, and you would think that would be easy pickings for Sue Sylvester. I actually thought Finn (never a fan of his singing but he was pretty decent) suddenly getting so deep about losing his spirituality over grilled cheese was, if not more, ridiculous than the hypothetical last minute conversions people were expecting Kurt to have. But I guess that plays off the character's stupidity.

I also liked I Want to Hold Your Hand too. Have to say, Finn and Kurt really sang great in this episode beause I don't usually care for their voices.

That is really freaky how that kid looks exactly like Chris Colfer and they are not related.

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