I stand-by my comments on GLEE — Page 5

I loved the Glee pilot episode, and am looking forward to the series in the fall.

Yes, it's derivative of a lot of things (Hamlet 2 and Camp come to mind), but so what? I'd rather watch these kids than the spoiled rich kids in most other TV shows.

Plus it's funny and campy (in a sort-of Ugly Betty-esqe way), and the songs are a hoot. Was that Matt Morrison rapping Golddigger in a future episode?

Glee made it as a top trending topic on Twitter. Fox says it will stream the pilot episode over the summer on Fox.com, so everyone will get a chance to see it. I'd imagine they'll be doing other things to promote the show over the summer like myspace pages, facebook, releasing songs on iTunes.

And maybe it will get more young people interested in performance and musical theatre, and wouldn't that be a good thing?

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Updated On: 5/19/09 at 10:15 PM

I was thoroughly entertained, I think there's a lot of interesting places for the show to go, and I was laughing out loud both at the episode itself, as well as the preview for the next batch of episodes to air in the fall (the line about an elementary school production of Hair was brilliant).

I think it's certainly got some interesting things to say about our motivations in our lives and what it means to follow a passion, or to want to be famous. Certainly a rich area of exploration for a series.

My one complaint, though, is that all the musical numbers sound REALLY overproduced. I did not buy that the "Don't Stop Believin'" number (however awesome it sounded) was only being sung by 5 people for a second, and all the performances are lip synced to a very polished finished track. That's it, though. I was very entertained throughout.

I absolutely LOVED every minute of it. Now I'm sad that I have to wait so long before catching the next episode.

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I really like it! Can Jane Lynch sing? I would really like to see her get a song.

IMDB is eating it up.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/board/threads/

Updated On: 5/19/09 at 10:24 PM

Maybe this will find an audience.

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Overall, I enjoyed it, and I'll definitely watch the next few episodes to see how it develops. I wouldn't be too hard on the pilot in terms of trying to fit too much in; that's kind of the nature of the beast for pilots (as an earlier poster said.) Hopefully they were able to calm down a bit in the next few episodes and just focus on one or two plotlines.
I did mention to the people I was watching with that I saw quite a bit of influence from "Hamlet 2"--the troubled marriage, the "loser" club at the HS, etc. Maybe that's what made me guess almost immediately that the "pregnancy" wasn't what it seemed.
I do agree that Lea Michele's voice sounded a bit too good to be HS; there are girls at my son's HS who have very good voices, but they just don't have that sheen of polish and professionalism yet. I guess we are supposed to believe that she's been training practically since birth and that's why she sounds that good.
I sure hope they do let Matthew Morrison sing in future episodes!

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Did anyone see the 55 minute version of the pilot? It had a much longer intro before the credits showing Matt Morrison's character in show choir in HS. Then cut to the present Matt is already the glee club director and how he got the job was told in flashback. In the aired version it was a lot more linear. They also cut lines here and there. They made the pacing a lot quicker.

It also sucks that you saw everyones audition except the wheelchair bound kid....and they cut Matt Morrison's "Leaving On a Jet Plane"

Updated On: 5/19/09 at 10:42 PM

The unaired pilot was much better. I don't like that that they cut out Matt's Glee director.

"Glee is about opening yourself up to joy."

Updated On: 5/19/09 at 10:47 PM

It reminded me of Boston Public, which used to have a lot of musical numbers and Broadway people. The woman who played Matt Morrison's wife was actually on that show.

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My PM's are on if anyone would care to share the whereabouts of the unaired pilot.

Cute show.

^ lol

I kinda think the last musical number, "Don't Stop," was rushed. The football guy gave everyone jobs to do, but we don't see the Glee team progress and see how they REALLY got to be that good. It just jumped to them performing this big number.

Did anyone else notice this as well??

"Did anyone else notice this as well??"

Yes. The whole pilot was rushed. We never found out what the Asian girl's contribution was to the final product.

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