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Hello! Welcome to my blog! I'm Connie, a member of the Tumblr geriatric ward and pop culture enthusiast.
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This is my place to blog about my favorite broadcast and streaming shows (Star Trek: Discovery, This is Us, The Flash, Glee, etc.), movies (Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar), actors (Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, and many more), music, food, technology, politics and whatever captures my interest at the moment.
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The Surprising, Complex History of LGBTQ Characters on TV Shows
It hasn't always been like this.
mic.com|Mic

Teenage Dream. It’s hard enough being an awkward teenager, but it gets exponentially more complicated when you are trying to figure out your sexual identity along with all of the other regular parts of growing up. Two mainstream teen shows dramatically moved the conversation around teenage sexuality forward…  

Almost a decade later, Glee (2009) expanded on the Dawson’s Creek kiss by exploring a romantic relationship between two gay teens — Kurt and Blaine. Kurt, struggling to come out to his macho dad while avoiding jock bullies at school, meets Blaine from a neighboring private school with a rival a cappella group. Blaine’s “Teenage Dream” serenade to Kurt shortly is a pivotal moment in the show, fully capturing what it feels like to fall in love for the first time.

#media on glee#media on klaine#lgbtq#glee#glee nostalgia#klaine
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The groundbreaking thing about Kurt, and Glee in general, was that his flamboyance and fabulousness was meant to set him apart. It was because he was different that he was embraced. His message was to design your own, absolutely fierce freak flag, and proudly wave it high. An act so simple, while polarizing, is enough to change people perceptions about you and your fellow freak-flag waving brethren. Funnily enough, considering how progressive his storyline was at the time, Kurt might actually seem retrograde today, when the Jamals of Empire and the Conors of How to Get Away With Murder are out to prove they’re not defined exclusively by their gayness. Kurt never was either, but there’s a discernible difference between what we hoped for in our LGBT characters then and what demand of them now. Of course, no gay character currently on TV could exist the way they are if it were not for Kurt paving the way.

Don’t Forget, ‘Glee’ Used to Be the Best TV Show Ever [The Daily Beast] (via chriscolfernews)

#quote#media on glee#media on kurt#kurt hummel#impact of glee
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Sure, pop stars and rap stars and rock stars are great, but their fans don't get to experience every single emotional up and down - even from the most social media-savvy singers - the way viewers do with TV characters. This loyalty is also the reason why there are multiple Nashville albums in my car, why I have the Smash soundtrack on my iPod and why I could only wait two days before buying the first Empire CD. But you never forget your first, and Glee will always be my gateway drug...the music will last far beyond Friday's finale for the true fans of the show. For that reason, and so many others, I guarantee you'll still be able to catch me driving around town with the windows listening to Glee on full blast for many years to come. Don't forget to say hello.

Kate Stanhope, “Saying Goodbye to Glee: The True Confessions of a Gleek” (TV Guide)

Source: tvguide.com
#quote#media on glee#glee music#kate stanhope#goodbye glee#i've had my fair share of sharp disagreements with kate in the past#but this tidbit was good#glee goodbye#glee legacy
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Every time I hear the Glee version of "Like a Virgin," I remember being shocked and delighted to know that the mean cheerleader, aka Santana, could saaaang. The first time I heard fun.'s breakthrough hit "We Are Young," was on Glee, so something is missing when I can't hear Rachel and Mercedes belt their hearts out. And "I Want to Hold Your Hand"? Yes, it's one of the most iconic Beatles hits of all times, but I can still close my eyes and picture Kurt tearily singing in the choir room to his sick dad, hospitalized from a shocking heart attack. Sniffle.

Kate Stanhope, “Saying Goodbye to Glee: The True Confessions of a Gleek” (x)

#quote#media on glee#tv guide#glee music#goodbye glee
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Behind the scenes at ‘Glee’s’ Brittana wedding: Giggle fits, tears and stripteases

Watching the cast of “Glee” rehearse for the big Season 6 wedding — the inevitable nuptials of fan favorite couple Brittany (Heather Morris) and Santana (Naya Rivera) — is just like watching an actual wedding rehearsal, although there’s a lot more expensive camera equipment tracking every move. It’s early December, and the cast and crew of “Glee” are set up on a ranch outside of Los Angeles — standing in for Indiana, where same-sex marriage is legal (it’s not in Ohio) — just down the road from the compound that was home to FOX’s high-profile reality experiment “Utopia.” The wedding episode airs Friday (Feb. 20). When Zap2it a small group of fellow reporters arrive on set, it’s 9 a.m. and the canyon is just warming up. The cast has been on set since 6 a.m. and are wrapped in parkas and wearing Ugg boots while they run through the scene — where Brittany and Santana walk down the aisle — one last time before filming. It really does feel like a wedding rehearsal, considering the barn is filled with guests — both extras and familiar “Glee” faces — and everyone is in formal wear. “Glee” co-creator Ian Brennan, who is directing the episode, leads the run-through and occasionally pipes in with feedback. Things that won’t actually make it to the first take: Kevin McHale’s striptease as he begins to mime the song Artie and Mercedes (Amber Riley) sing while Brittana walk down the aisle, some f-bombs during line readings and a giggle fit at the suggestive wording of some of the vows. To say much more about the scene would reveal a major, major plot spoiler for the entire episode, so just know that it is a lovely moment for characters you’ve grown to love throughout “Glee’s” run, the brides’ and the bridesmaids’ dresses are gorgeous, and it will put joy into the hearts of shippers everywhere.
#media on glee#glee spoilers#glee 6x08
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sleepdeprivedmind
"The documents show that about 350 documents catch the attention of agents each month, just a tiny fraction of the millions of files surveilled. The Canadian spy agency maintains a catalog of about 2,200 links deemed of "interest." At one point, the spy system got clogged with Glee TV series downloads, according to the documents.”
#media on glee#wow#i guess that's one way for glee to be in the news#lolz
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So, Glee, no, you don’t get any brownie points from me for introducing this trans storyline in your final season. You had one and you messed it up terribly. You had Unique, a black trans girl who also happened to be one of the best singers on the show, but you treated her like trash. She was constantly the butt of jokes and bullying. Every time she had a storyline of her own, it just reinforced the idea that the characters within the show, and the show itself, didn’t see her as a “real” woman. You treated trans women as a punchline, or as deceptive and predatory. And now she’s gone; you made her completely disappear. Disrespected, othered and treated like garbage when she was around, and then suddenly and unceremoniously erased from existence. If that isn’t the perfect microcosm for how society treats trans women of color, I don’t know what is.

Mey Rude, A Tale of Two Trans Characters: Glee’s Trans Representation Problem on Autostraddle (via autostraddle)

There’s some dodgy stuff in this article about who deserves representation and who has already “had their share,” not to mention some half-assed textual analysis, but the point about dropping Unique’s story like a hot potato?  Valid.

I’m so frustrated about how they have entirely erased Unique. When Sam looked all confused in Sue’s office and had to have everything explained to him, I kept thinking “hello - how could you not get this? Unique was your friend!” It’s infuriating, and confusing, that regardless of what the show wanted to do with Beiste, they wouldn’t have at least mentioned Unique.

(via flowerfan2)

#media on glee#glee 6x03#glee#autostraddle#transgender#unique adams#coach beiste
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I’m looking forward to getting know the next gen of New Directions, a well-cast, immediately appealing fantastic four: super-tight, super-cheery, vaguely naughty siblings twins Mason (Billy Lewis Jr.) and Madison (Laura Dreyfus); lumbering and alienated yet strong and soulful Roderick (Noah Guthrie); and especially Samantha Marie Ware’s Jane, a human firecracker with an extraordinary atomic cloud of hair who laid claim to the center of the franchise with her performance of “Tightrope.”

Jeff Jensen, "Why a humbled 'Glee' is a 'Glee' worth watching" (Entertainment Weekly) (1/16/2015)

#quote#media on the newest newbies#media on glee#i particularly chuckled over what jeff jensen said about jane#human firecracker
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See I knew what was coming and yet felt Kurt’s complete shock and horror. He assumed it would be not easy, but viable. Come back, apologize, make some effort, get Blaine back. Blaine loves him, is always waiting for him, always believes in them. Right? Instead, Blaine is dating a man who Kurt helped put back together, a man he encouraged to seek out love and share his life with. Who knew it would come back to haunt him at the worst possible moment?

— Tere Michaels, With An Accent’s “Loser Like Me” Recap (via grbggrl)

#quote#media on glee#media on kurt#kurt hummel#you hit the nail on the head tere#herdingcats12#glee 6x01
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And [Glee] really was what it got credit for being, in that it did things that don’t happen enough: it was a show where an actress with Down Syndrome had a real role in which she got to be funny, and where Chris Colfer sang in the first season in a way nobody was singing on television, and where gender fluidity and grief and loss got to be real.

C’mon, ‘Glee’: Bring It Home (NPR)

This is a pretty terrific piece from NPR. Half-review, half-commentary on the show’s bumpy road to closure.

(via iconicklaine)

#media on Glee#NPR
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