Wednesday night television, running commentary

[apocalypsos]

I swear I can multitask. ART CRAWL! o/

-- That opening performance was so much FUN.

-- You know, when you send Victor and Karen out with Jakob and Ashleigh, it's sort of a neon sign who's going to the bottom three before anyone says anything.

-- OMG, this is mean. I want to think they voted Legacy and Kathryn into the top ten but it'd be just my luck that Nathan and Mollee are the one who'll make it. (That said, there does seem to be a "Stop trying to make Nathee happen, Nigel! It's not going to happen!" thing going on in SYTYCD fandom lately.)

-- YESYESYES. "Adam, you always said these two were fan favorites." See, this is why they're falling now. Because the fans don't want to be told who to like, and the judges keep doing it.

-- I'm sorry, what? Ellenore and Ryan? Are you KIDDING me? On other nights, maybe, but after last night?

-- Well, goodbye, Victor and Karen, I suppose. Although I'd trade them to Nathan and Mollee, quite frankly. (I don't hate Nathan and Mollee, really, I'm just sick of watching the judges give them tongue baths.)

-- Dear Karen, I would be a lot more likely to support you staying if your solos didn't look like something I could do in a bar with the right FMQ boots and about four Smirnoffs in me.

-- Karen's going home, and I am shocked. SHOCKED, I TELL YOU. Let it never be said that being really fucking hot isn't a talent. (Seriously, I do not get the Karen love out of the judges.)

-- HOLY CRAP. Nigel would have sent Nathan home? HAHAHAHAHA. That's all I can think. You know, aside from, "Aw, Victor."

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-- "Coach Sylvester didn't tell me to do this." *snickers* I love Brittany so damn much.

-- Quinn, run away.

-- "Rachel manages to dress like a grandmother and a toddler at the same time." Every once in a while, this show cracks out a line that's perfectly and exactly what I didn't know I was thinking until they said it. This is one of those lines.

-- Dude, seriously? A pillow in the middle of the bed? Will is such a moron, honestly.

-- "Where Strawberry Shortcake and Holly Hobby come to hook up." I would pay hard cash for fic where Kurt writes Strawberry Shortcake/Holly Hobby femmeslash.

-- Deaf jokes. Because those are always funny. Uh-huh. *eyeroll*

-- Oh, my God, the pregnancy storyline is the number one reason I would throw this show to the wolves. Both of them, actually, but the Terri part is definitely the most annoying.

-- "It's like cool epilepsy." Oh, Brittany.

-- "Sad clown hooker" ... *headsmack*

-- It's moments like this that make me wish Quinn and Puck were the main pairing rather than Rachel and Finn.

-- Oh, PUCK. You are such a failure. It's kinda why I like you as a character. My weakness for somehow lovable douchebags strikes again.

-- ... well, the mash-up was cool. The performance was just as stupid as it was supposed to be, though.

-- Is that a real deaf choir? 'Cause that might actually make up for the bad deaf jokes. Well, a little, anyway.

-- Oh, Quinn, you don't have to do this. Will could make a good father, yeah, but Terri will be a HORRIBLE mother.

-- Hey, Rachel and Finn only sang lead once. In a song that wasn't even performed by the glee club. Good show. Cookie for you!

Comments

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

oh dear, what was the deaf joke?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The glee club leader from the deaf school came to confront Will about the fact that he invited the glee club from the girls' reformatory to the high school but not them. It was basically an entire scene of "What'd you say?" "Nothing." "Oh, thanks. Black with two sugars." jokes. Bad jokes, and insulting to boot.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

meh!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It was quite sweet when the deaf choir performed, though. That much, I'll give them credit for. And I suspect they may have been deaf actors as well, so good on them for that much.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

did they sign?

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Yes, they did. Both glee clubs signed as they sang together - deaf and non.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

They probably thought they could get away with it because he was only "half" deaf, in one ear. Conversely, perhaps they're just shameless.

[imperfect_tense]

Yeah, I was not very thrilled with the Deaf thing.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

To be fair, though, that scene with the deaf choir performing was really kinda sweet.

[imperfect_tense]

Oh yeah, I'll give them that. But at the same time, I don't know if that erases the bad stuff for me, you know?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much par for the course on this show. Do something appalling, then do something sweet to make up for the something appalling ... aaaaaand the something appalling still exists so the audience gets to debate if the something sweet was worth suffering through the something appalling.

Er, if that even makes sense.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

Perfect sense to me. Damn you, show! I still haven't managed to be able to sit through Ballads for a reason. It's on TV here in Australia tonight, though, so maybe that will make it so I actually watch the episode -- although there is then the temptation to change the channel in the unwatchable parts, instead of closing/skipping through the file.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

More like they think they can get away with the appalling because they stick the sweet on there at the end. BOO.

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

That Nigel would have sent Nathan home was my favorite part. Poor Victor.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I liked that they made Quinn *good* at handling children; waaaay better than Terri's evil sister. Those kids are little horrors because of their loser parents. I liked Quinn's sense of accomplishment and she truly would be a great mother -- the fact that she's putting the baby's concerns above her own is proof of that.

Still annoyed that they have Quinn not informing Terri that she's going to pay the medical expenses, or else. I really want to see Terri squirm and workin' hard to make the money. And yes, Will = moron.

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

I love that the Deaf choir performed (though yeah, the jokes with their director were... ugh), but I gotta say, for all the touchy-feely-aww-we-are-friends goodness when the Glee kids got up and sang with them? I was growling "Shut the fuck up and respect them enough to sit down and let them perform their piece without barging in." If they'd done it as one of those asides that doesn't seem to actually happen in continuity (like Artie's "Dancing With Myself" montage), it'd be lovely, but that? Seemed pretty damn rude.

Kurt vs. Rachel is the most entertaining thing ever. I do rather hope they learn to stand each other. I could see them as casual antagonists, easily-- snarky, but not too mean, with a grounding of mutual respect.

[trinity_clare]

The Deaf choir was pretty awesome (and yeah, I think they were really Deaf kids, which makes it even more awesome), and the performance was touching, but I kind of wish the Glee kids hadn't taken it over. On the other hand, TINA GOT A SONG! TINA! WOOHOO!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish the Glee kids hadn't taken it over

Yeah, that part was definitely more than a little annoying.

[trinity_clare]

What's funny is that I was watching it with my mom, and she started singing the song under her breath, and I was like, "Mom! Shut up! I want to hear the show!"

....And then Mercedes started singing. FML.