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Drama drama drama! Glee
Okay, so, caught up on Glee. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
libekory and I agreed that we like this show 50% for the music numbers, and 50% for Sue Sylvester. When we started watching, the first thing we said to each other was, "You know, I like this because it doesn't take itself too seriously!" It was like 30 Rock: everyone was so completely absurd that you just laughed at them all the time.
...halfway through the season that changed. Everything became very serious and dramaful. Are there still humorous statements and cracky absurdity? Yes, but. Now everything is very Serious, too. We're not enjoying like -- any of the plotlines. For instance:
1) Rachel finding her mom -- that happened in less than an episode and was resolved in another episode. After keeping secrets about the pregnancies for half a season, that seems really, really rushed -- not to mention it makes no sense. She's not a sad little orphan who wants to find her real mommy. She has two loving dads, her real biological fathers, who are being painted as inadequate (for reasons that don't make sense: they raised a starlet without knowing how to sew??) without ever even appearing on the show, which is insulting. Her interest in her biological mother is simultaneous with this plotline, so it wasn't even established in advance, just the moment it became convenient.
2) Everything with Kurt lately. When Finn exploded at him, we were supposed to see Finn as a bad guy, but the truth is that nothing Finn said was wrong. If Kurt hadn't actually been trying to seduce him, or if Kurt hadn't actually manipulated their parents into hooking up, I'd be completely sympathetic to Kurt for being upset and Kurt's dad for throwing a fit about homophobia -- but the truth is that Kurt was being a creeper and Finn was completely accurate in seeing him as being creepy. (Plus, sharing a room, at like 17, with someone who is attracted to your gender? Super awkward.) Kurt throwing fits every time his dad hangs out with Finn instead of himself (three times in two episodes) is also completely uncalled-for: his dad has never been anything less than 110% supportive, so the moment he goes to a football game with someone who shares his interest, which by the way you orchestrated, that doesn't mean you need to act out, okay? What do you want?
3) All the romantic subplots, really. Will and Emma are set up for half a season and then immediately lose the spark, whereupon he instantly almost gets with two other potential love interests; Rachel pines for Finn for half a season and then the moment he breaks up with Quinn he hooks up with Rachel, and then they immediately break up, and then she hooks up with someone else, and then Finn's all over her even though he was (justifiably) creeped out by her before, and then everyone is all over her and wtf, when did we start thinking Rachel was desireable?
At some point everyone's drama started taking over the show. And there's been LESS Sue and LESS awesome musical numbers. (They're flashier, with bigger budgets, but Li is upset over synthesizers, FYI.) I miss when it was 30 Rock, but with musical numbers: when everyone was a ridiculous caricature and I could just have fun with it.
libekory and I agreed that we like this show 50% for the music numbers, and 50% for Sue Sylvester. When we started watching, the first thing we said to each other was, "You know, I like this because it doesn't take itself too seriously!" It was like 30 Rock: everyone was so completely absurd that you just laughed at them all the time....halfway through the season that changed. Everything became very serious and dramaful. Are there still humorous statements and cracky absurdity? Yes, but. Now everything is very Serious, too. We're not enjoying like -- any of the plotlines. For instance:
1) Rachel finding her mom -- that happened in less than an episode and was resolved in another episode. After keeping secrets about the pregnancies for half a season, that seems really, really rushed -- not to mention it makes no sense. She's not a sad little orphan who wants to find her real mommy. She has two loving dads, her real biological fathers, who are being painted as inadequate (for reasons that don't make sense: they raised a starlet without knowing how to sew??) without ever even appearing on the show, which is insulting. Her interest in her biological mother is simultaneous with this plotline, so it wasn't even established in advance, just the moment it became convenient.
2) Everything with Kurt lately. When Finn exploded at him, we were supposed to see Finn as a bad guy, but the truth is that nothing Finn said was wrong. If Kurt hadn't actually been trying to seduce him, or if Kurt hadn't actually manipulated their parents into hooking up, I'd be completely sympathetic to Kurt for being upset and Kurt's dad for throwing a fit about homophobia -- but the truth is that Kurt was being a creeper and Finn was completely accurate in seeing him as being creepy. (Plus, sharing a room, at like 17, with someone who is attracted to your gender? Super awkward.) Kurt throwing fits every time his dad hangs out with Finn instead of himself (three times in two episodes) is also completely uncalled-for: his dad has never been anything less than 110% supportive, so the moment he goes to a football game with someone who shares his interest, which by the way you orchestrated, that doesn't mean you need to act out, okay? What do you want?
3) All the romantic subplots, really. Will and Emma are set up for half a season and then immediately lose the spark, whereupon he instantly almost gets with two other potential love interests; Rachel pines for Finn for half a season and then the moment he breaks up with Quinn he hooks up with Rachel, and then they immediately break up, and then she hooks up with someone else, and then Finn's all over her even though he was (justifiably) creeped out by her before, and then everyone is all over her and wtf, when did we start thinking Rachel was desireable?
At some point everyone's drama started taking over the show. And there's been LESS Sue and LESS awesome musical numbers. (They're flashier, with bigger budgets, but Li is upset over synthesizers, FYI.) I miss when it was 30 Rock, but with musical numbers: when everyone was a ridiculous caricature and I could just have fun with it.