I gave most of the dumb stuff a pass, because Christmas!episode, but yeah, if I had been watching for any sort of plot and character continuity, I would have been bothered by all the same stuff you were. Thoughts:
*It usually bugs me when the show gets self-deprecating, because I'm like, "If you know what you're doing wrong WHY DON'T YOU FIX IT?", but it made me laugh this week, for some reason. The robot pants broke? SERIOUSLY? Oh, whatever, you dumb show. I guess I was feeling generous. LIKE THE BABY JESUS OR SOMETHING.
*I cannot believe Sue didn't use this opportunity to renew her vow of vengeance against the Glee Club. (The election's over, so she needs another excuse, right? *eyeroll*)
*As much as I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooved the Christmas special, I wonder how it played with people who a) don't love '40s and '50s style musicals, and b) aren't ridiculously enamored with this cast. Like, *I* could watch Chris Colfer and Lea Michele mug at the camera all day, but I wonder how casual viewers reacted to it.
*Oh my god, the Star Wars. Finn's copyright infringement speech. GOLD!
*So, Rachel's characterization was totally out of nowhere, but when Finn gave her the star named after him, I said, out loud (and this is something I rarely say about these two), "Oh my god, you douches are MADE for each other." Because that? Is something Rachel *would totally* do. Like, I love her, but seriously. And I know my statement is patently false, but at that moment, their mutual selfishness met on the astral plane.
*I had forgotten how terrible "Do They Know It's Christmastime" is. And, I mean, it's already terrible, but then WHY WOULD YOU SING THAT IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO HELP?!? WHY?!? By that point, I was on my second gin and tonic (I've started drinking during the show, which is probably why I've been fairly positive about it the past few weeks), and I have to admit, I started laughing. A lot. Because it was just SO BAD that I had to pretend in my head that it was a parody of this kind of thing, and not a sincere expression of it.
I do sometimes wonder if Ryan Murphy and co. are smarter than we think they are, and they're totally trolling us by presenting these completely cheesy and ridiculous and kind of offensive sequences ("Imagine" comes to mind), but I am sadly fairly certain they are not.
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Date: 2011-12-15 12:35 am (UTC)*It usually bugs me when the show gets self-deprecating, because I'm like, "If you know what you're doing wrong WHY DON'T YOU FIX IT?", but it made me laugh this week, for some reason. The robot pants broke? SERIOUSLY? Oh, whatever, you dumb show. I guess I was feeling generous. LIKE THE BABY JESUS OR SOMETHING.
*I cannot believe Sue didn't use this opportunity to renew her vow of vengeance against the Glee Club. (The election's over, so she needs another excuse, right? *eyeroll*)
*As much as I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooved the Christmas special, I wonder how it played with people who a) don't love '40s and '50s style musicals, and b) aren't ridiculously enamored with this cast. Like, *I* could watch Chris Colfer and Lea Michele mug at the camera all day, but I wonder how casual viewers reacted to it.
*Oh my god, the Star Wars. Finn's copyright infringement speech. GOLD!
*So, Rachel's characterization was totally out of nowhere, but when Finn gave her the star named after him, I said, out loud (and this is something I rarely say about these two), "Oh my god, you douches are MADE for each other." Because that? Is something Rachel *would totally* do. Like, I love her, but seriously. And I know my statement is patently false, but at that moment, their mutual selfishness met on the astral plane.
*I had forgotten how terrible "Do They Know It's Christmastime" is. And, I mean, it's already terrible, but then WHY WOULD YOU SING THAT IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO HELP?!? WHY?!? By that point, I was on my second gin and tonic (I've started drinking during the show, which is probably why I've been fairly positive about it the past few weeks), and I have to admit, I started laughing. A lot. Because it was just SO BAD that I had to pretend in my head that it was a parody of this kind of thing, and not a sincere expression of it.
I do sometimes wonder if Ryan Murphy and co. are smarter than we think they are, and they're totally trolling us by presenting these completely cheesy and ridiculous and kind of offensive sequences ("Imagine" comes to mind), but I am sadly fairly certain they are not.