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489591, If you weren't watching Glee over the last five minutes...
Posted by Frank Longo, Wed Dec-02-09 09:34 PM
... I feel sorry for you.
489593, if you've ever watched glee i feel sorry for you
Posted by Tiger Woods, Wed Dec-02-09 09:39 PM
489595, ^^^ not how Sue C's it.
Posted by Frank Longo, Wed Dec-02-09 09:49 PM
489615, Maybe if you and the wife had more Glee in your house
Posted by Whiteout, Wed Dec-02-09 11:03 PM
you'd be in less of a situation now.
489625, Aren't you supposed to be spending more time with your family?
Posted by JungleSouljah, Thu Dec-03-09 12:05 AM
I feel bad for whatever car you spend your next 5 minutes in.
489626, I can't remember what happened at that moment
Posted by JungleSouljah, Thu Dec-03-09 12:06 AM
I'm guessing it was the Jump performance? Or was it Sue going off?
489648, It was The Moment We've Waited The Las Eight Episodes For.
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Dec-03-09 07:00 AM
489689, Ohhhhh. I had forgotten all about that.
Posted by JungleSouljah, Thu Dec-03-09 11:14 AM
It was good. But it wasn't Betty going at Don Draper good.
489697, One bad storyline down; Two to go
Posted by Melanism, Thu Dec-03-09 11:38 AM
Emma/Ken wedding and the Puck/Finn/Quinn pregnancy (although those might be a wrap next week by how the previews look)


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489799, Yep. They'll both wrap up. GOOD!
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Dec-03-09 09:59 PM
489627, so what happened?
Posted by Ceej, Thu Dec-03-09 12:07 AM
489653, Longo, this is like drinking piss for fifty-five minutes
Posted by Invisiblist, Thu Dec-03-09 08:50 AM
just so you can drink wine for five, then exclaiming, "Man, y'all missed out on some good wine."

Nah, man. I'm good. I think I'm done with the show. I was bored out of my mind for the first half hour of this ep, and found other shit to do. I can't care about Shu's marital problems if I'm totally over he entire series every other episode.

I wanna like Glee, and I have liked Glee, occasionally, but let's face it. It's Heroes, but gay(er).
489666, Queer-oes?
Posted by CaptNish, Thu Dec-03-09 09:51 AM
.
489671, Except it's well-written and follows its own rules.
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Dec-03-09 10:07 AM
Come on. You can be bored by the show (I'm not, really), but you can't compare it to the idiocy of Heroes. At lease Glee does what it does WELL.
489679, define well-written
Posted by Rjcc, Thu Dec-03-09 10:43 AM
I've thought shows I didn't like had good writing, but glee is not one of them.

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489723, Glee does it well just under half the time.
Posted by Invisiblist, Thu Dec-03-09 02:34 PM
I rode hard for Glee after the pilot. It's not keeping up the quality. This last one was a boring fucking episode, Longo, just like the one where Quinn had FOUR FUCKING SCENES in one ep bitching out Finn for not having a job.

THAT
IS
NOT
GOOD
WRITING.

One, two scenes is enough to get the point across. Finn telling us he's searching for a job over and over without us actually seeing the job search IS NOT GOOD WRITING. Two of those scenes could have actually shown us something.

For every episode like the one where Kurt and his dad are awesome, we get two more episodes of "Hey look, they gay kid is gay. AIN'T THAT CRAZY?"
489680, What happened in the last five minutes?
Posted by Walleye, Thu Dec-03-09 10:44 AM
Are you talking about the fake pregnancy thing finally unravelling? Because if so, then no. A thousand times no. This show has something (deeply disturbing, but still) to say when people are trapped in misery. But if the timing of discovering his wife's fake pregnancy ends up keeping redhead guidance counselor and football coach from getting married, then this show's done saying interesting stuff.
489724, oh, this show isn't done being interesting,
Posted by Invisiblist, Thu Dec-03-09 02:35 PM
but who the fuck knows when the next ep will be where they do?
489734, I read some reviewer
Posted by Walleye, Thu Dec-03-09 04:02 PM
AVClub, maybe. I'm paraphrasing here, but he said that Glee was like an experiment to see if you could wring emotionally true moments out of emotionally false situations. Then he said that the answer was "sometimes".

If I'm being honest, I'll keep watching for the songs. And then I'll find out if you're right about them being interesting. But for the moment it seems like they've spent a few months delaying a cop-out that could have been accomplished in half the time.
489738, ^^^^See, Longo? What show does this comment remind you of?
Posted by Invisiblist, Thu Dec-03-09 04:20 PM
>But for the moment it seems like they've spent a
>few months delaying a cop-out that could have been
>accomplished in half the time.
489800, This is a fair response to the show.
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Dec-03-09 09:59 PM
>AVClub, maybe. I'm paraphrasing here, but he said that Glee
>was like an experiment to see if you could wring emotionally
>true moments out of emotionally false situations. Then he
>said that the answer was "sometimes".
489791, If you have Directv and were watching Glee instead of Friday Night Lights
Posted by Gemini_Two_One, Thu Dec-03-09 08:35 PM

I feel sorry for you.

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489813, I read this post before I watched...
Posted by okaycomputer, Thu Dec-03-09 10:55 PM
I was hoping you were talking about a Quinn/Finn reveal, so I was a bit disappointed.

The last 2 or 3 episodes really surprised me. This one, eh.

I can understand the mixed reactions, but I'm definitely in for the long hall. This was a show I started watching for the wife and now I'm totally invested.

I'll agree with the folks who say the emotional arcs run pretty shallow, but I keep watching for those few moments when they dip into the deep end. They do it far better than I ever would have expected.

Plus I'm a Jane Lynch fan AND it features Nashua, New Hampshire's finest: Mike O'Malley
Do do do do you have it? GUTS
489851, I started watching it because it was dope.
Posted by Invisiblist, Fri Dec-04-09 07:19 AM
If I keep watching it, it's ONLY for the wife, because we don't really have any shows anymore.
489853, They did stretch the conflicts by a couple episodes.
Posted by Frank Longo, Fri Dec-04-09 07:32 AM
I'm not denying it. They saw how many eps they had, knew the arc they wanted to take before filming the remainder of the season, and knew where they wanted to leave us. I forgive the stretching out some of the melodramatic elements (such as the very silly fake pregnancy), because the songs are good for the most part and the show makes me laugh about as regularly as any other show. Also, when the show does generate a true emotional response, it hits me harder than any other show that I watch at the moment (though Lost will be coming back soon-- sorry Rj).