“This Time” is even more beautiful in performance.

Usual caveat. Spitballing here. Not a lot of thought, just a reaction.)

Yes. That episode did feel like some filler. Which is frustrating in a short season. But as I said in an earlier post, this felt like a season one episode.

 And I think it does actually fit into the arc of the season.

Somewhere along her path, Rachel forgot the “being a part of something special”  part of the “makes you special” line. I can’t believe I am about to reference Schue (shudder), but like he pointed out to her in the breakroom, she has not bothered to take the time to get to know who these kids actually are. Her goal cannot be just to make a winning team for herself, she has to do it for the kids too.

I think the show reinforced this by following its own advice and taking a second out to get to know the new kids. (Are we actually gonna sing, or are you gonna announce an alumnus walking through the door?)So we focused on them for an episode. The episode showed that they each bring something important to the team and they all needed each other. (Spencer/Roderick, Mason/Madison/Jane, Kitty and a Ladder.) “I want to be like the cool kids” and in this weird little group they are.They need each other. Because being a part of something special…

Maybe we (like Rachel) realize out time with this Glee club is short, but shouldn’t we take the time to get to know everyone at least a little bit?

Yes, agreed! I do think we needed some of this, even though it may seem filler-ish. It’s all part of Rachel’s story, Sue’s story and the glee club’s story, or will be. Even Sue tacking the new kids onto her board was a way to acknowledge that. Idk, it resonated with me, even though it’s hard with so few eps left :/

I love following up on the rage fork so much. Will be interesting to watch this two parter as one as it should be.

Lee Paulblatt is so perfectly pitched. And hilarious. And fascinating.

I suspect Glee’s 100th episode is going to be self indulgent as fuck. And I will love it.

Per Ryan Murphy’s latest interview, I think Glee is doing a very smart thing in making 5.03 about grief as opposed to death.

You know we keep talking about this, often because Colfer addresses this in a way that feels clumsy or that seems to separate female from gay in a way that rubs many of us the wrong way.

While this isn’t a perfect solve of it, this particular interview seems to make more clear what a lot of fandom has been suspecting for a while, which is that he keeps mentioning all the female fans not as a complaint (despite some iterations of the phrasing), but as a “I can generate revenue, cast me” remark. 

Did Kurt look at Santana’s chest and looked up and Santana is like “Hey, I caught you”?

Because… this is cute.

(GIF not mine)

Fuck it…I like to think that in spite of being a Gold Star Gay Kurt Hummel has an odd, aesthetic fascination and even appreciation of a nice rack.

I mean … he’s into fashion. He needs to understand and appreciate boobs.

Fail re: Unique or the return of Sandy Ryerson?

(I think it’s fail re: Unique).

It could be that Ryder still thinks of Unique as a boy, and that’s the storyline. Because, I mean, if it’s Unique, that’s definitely the storyline.

The first twenty minutes confused me, but now I know why. The whole feeling of “something is not right” was on purpose, I think, the trepidation needed a base. It confused some of us, because of the levity thrown in, but I get it. I really do. And I love it.

Very good point. I need to watch it again, but the whole episode had a “vibe”…

This. It was so deliberate.

Heather Hogan on the difference between Klaine and Finchel (x)

Juxtaposition in similar circumstance is one way to highlight difference. Glee does this consistently with these couples, and in my opinion, well.

(via lettersfromtitan)

the last gifset I reblogged made me think about something… glee has a thing for shots of Klaine’s hands, or it is just me? Because I can’t recall any other pairing having such a ~thing~ on the show…

That’s because Klaine are actually lesbians. And I’m only…

It’s worth remembering that hands and touching/holding hands have been explicitly marked out as symbolically important for Kurt particularly, and by extension for Burt and Blaine in relation to Kurt, ever since ‘Grilled Cheesus’ and ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ - before which we got the story of the hand clasp at Kurt’s mother’s grave; after which, in ‘Duets’, we got ‘Why can’t I walk hand-in-hand down the hall with a person that I like?’; in ‘Sexy’ this was extended to include sexualised touch with ‘the touch of the fingertips is as sexy as it gets’ and in ‘The First Time’ this was furthered with ‘granting our hands visas to travel south of the equator’.  Actual shots of hands and hand-holding may not necessarily be more numerous for Klaine (I wouldn’t know; I haven’t counted!) but they’re given a specific, verbally indicated importance that isn’t consistently present in other stories in the show, and the framing and editing of the shots reflects that.  Handhold shots have weight within this story (and in the Kurt-Burt story - consider the handhold at the end of Burt’s disclosure scene in ‘Glee, Actually’, which didn’t have to be a closeup on the hands at all).  They’re punctuation, used to say particular things about the relationship.  That may be why the fandom focusses in on them.

And yes, it totally is an iconic image for Kurt and Blaine’s relationship for which none of the other couples have an equivalent, except maybe Brittany and Santana’s linked pinky fingers, which has fallen out of use over time.

Yes exactly, also Blaine took Kurt’s hand the first time they meet just two episodes after that conversation in “Duets” — the image shown during “The Scientist” because of the significance of that moment. Then they hold hands in “Original Song” after a funeral scene in which Kurt’s mother is mentioned by Blaine, again connecting hand-holding to the relationships with Blaine and Burt. The sacredness of that kind of touch and the relationships associated with it, particularly with Blaine in this case and his pain in losing it, also seen in a visual way with the staging of “Hopelessly Devoted to You” echoing the staging of “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” from the movie Across the Universe. So yeah, I think there is deliberate repetition in the narrative, verbally stated and visually, about holding hands for Kurt and Klaine.

Potential headcanon change: Sebastian is a poser. He is not nearly as rich as he claims to be. He never lived in Paris. He may or may not be lying about his father. He might be on scholarship at Dalton.

Oh, yeah. I like thinking about Sebastian this way, where all of what he says is just “sorta” true. 

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Quinn may still die of a broken heart.