So I just finished watching the super bowl Glee and the Valentine Glee so this will be in two chunks.
chunk A I loved, Chunk B I hated.
So the Super Bowl episode of glee was...A total tease, it sets up the idea of Glee going back to the days of old. Aka episode 1-13. Those first few episodes were a great series, but where the show has gone has been nothing but good. So when I say this episode is a tease, I mean that in the sense that the episode is good, the season sucks. Good character moments, good strong development that makes sense for characters. Characters who have no right being in the episode aren't present, an almost bittersweet end to a fun adventure. The only downside is the music was pretty terrible, who ever at the studio said "these kids won't know classic rock, why use it" were retarded and are teh same people who think we need a Justin Beiber song. Fuck. You. Fox.
And the other episode. Well, everything that the super bowl episode got wrong, this episode got worse. Everything SBGS got right,wrong. There wasn't a whole lot here that was right. It makes most of the characters downright unlikable, piss poor musical numbers. Music that doesn't even make sense.
This series has a problem where it wants to give the fans more of what they want. Except they don't get what they want and give them a bastardized version of it. Every inch of this show oozes with execs don't know what they are doing. Likely it is working something like this: Studio does polls, surveys and what nots(asking the wrong questions of course) and figure out roughly what some fans want. Then they look at their advertisers and who they want to reach. So they find a middle ground and tell the shows creative team here is what you should do. The creative team, being morally, creatively, and intelligently bankrupt think it's a great idea and in their heads they think it is a great way out of not knowing what to do.
The show reacts much like a show run by internet fan boys meet studio execs. It doesn't work out for anyone. So what we the audience get is a series of never ending reused storylines, (seriously, we get it, everyone is in a love triangle, square, or pentagon and it plays out exactly the way it's expected). The show likes to default to a handful of couples, I.E. Shue/Emma, Finn/Rachel, Finn/Quinn. And such any status changes are very clearly temporary and have no emotional weight. It's like someone saw Dawson's Creek. Saw the epic Joey/Dawson/Pacey Love triangle that was developed and played out over six seasons and said, you know what would be better? Doing it over the course of six episodes. And someone was like FUCK YEAH. And it all went to hell. So this series pretty much blows. In the first season they showed logic and reason behind each characters knowledge of songs, they weren't just random and they served purpose and feeling. Instead the show has become a shell of something that was once good. Much like Heroes, I hope they figure out how to tell a good story again before it all falls apart and they are canceled.
A note, unless I'm really angry(which I'm not) I usually try to avoid the F-bombs. Today I am sick and offer no inhibition about the quality. This show sucks and it really needs to fire it's entire writing team, hire a new team composed of Tehater people and Television writers(maybe some of the guys that used to work on Dawson's creek) and figure this out. Oh and if they give us that bullshit no one ever grows up nonsense where they are in high shcool for eight seasons I'm going to punch someone...
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