Glee Episode V: The Sylvester Strikes Back - - - - Part 13

[Tanin]

Ryan Murphy in Season 6: "We're very excited to be introducing a cheerleading coach as our new antagonist, because that's a character type we've never really dealt with before!"

Doesn't sound familiar at all.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Schlosser85]

Episode 3 is going to be rough. It still sucks so hard that he's gone.

I just rewatched the Season 4 finale, where he'd been absent for a few episodes by then, and it's weird to think we'd already seen the last of him we'll ever see.

 

[Sawyer]

I just saw someone on another site remark that the poster/banner uses "an old picture."

 

[Schlosser85]

Someone doesn't get out much...

 

[Schlosser85]

How the hell is Ryder more either gay or Asian than Sam??

That line made no ****ing sense at all.

 

[Schlosser85]

Also, when it comes to dubious messages Glee puts out, its romanticizing of teenagers getting married is right up there with joining the army to "honor" someone else.

 

[Sawyer]

Jesus, did Kurt say yes? I'm on west coast time here...

If he did!

 

[Schlosser85]

Well what the hell did you think was going to happen?

 

[Sawyer]

That he would have more sense that that gel-brained pretty boy he's dating.

But then, these aren't really characters... they're toys in Ryan Murphy's playpen.

 

[Schlosser85]

I have zero problem with Kurt and Blaine getting married in some great big fabulous gay wedding extravaganza...eventually

Them getting engaged while Blaine is still in high school and they're still in the long-distance relationship that fell apart after 3 weeks the last time they tried it...like, an hour after getting back together after being broken up for months...is....ill-advised.

It's also arguably out-of-character for Kurt who, while a hopeless romantic who hasn't always had the best judgment, has generally been portrayed as more level-headed than Rachel, and was totally against she and Finn's engagement.

 

[flash13]

What was this episode? The New York storyline in increasingly boring and McKinley was pretty good until Kurt said yes. Wasn't it enough to get them back together for now?

 

[SpideyFan866]

I didn't enjoy this episode at all. I kinda liked "All You Need Is Love", but it was ruined by the fact that it was being used in the Klaine proposal scene, where it didn't make much sense anyways ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand" should've been used here). Other than that, all of the songs were a bit meh. I didn't much care for their renditions. Not bad, but it could've been much better by Glee standards.

This was, IMO, the most unremarkable of the season premiere. And the fact that it doesn't open on a new school year completely drains it of the "renewal" factor we had with the other seasons. With those seasons, we were coming back just as the characters were, so we could really relate a little better and see things develop in a way that made sense.

Here, it just feels like just another episode (or a lost episode of Season 4) with a bunch of plotlines that have just sprung up from nowhere and make no sense due to the short "in show" time frame between this premiere and the last season finale.

 

[Schlosser85]

Apart from the Klaine bits, a lot of this episode made my eyes glaze over.

I thought "I Saw Her Standing There" was cute (Darren's hair was cute in that scene).

Speaking of hair, Sam desperately needs a haircut.

Sue continues to be pointless, cartoonish, and ridiculous. Though I will admit she got a couple chuckles out of me.

I really enjoyed the last scene despite my misgivings about Klaine getting engaged at this stage, but overall....meh.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, Sam's hair looks damn ridiculous.

 

[Schlosser85]

When your hair goes a certain time without being cut or properly tended, it starts to make you look like a sloppy person.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

This was, IMO, the most unremarkable of the season premiere. And the fact that it doesn't open on a new school year completely drains it of the "renewal" factor we had with the other seasons. With those seasons, we were coming back just as the characters were, so we could really relate a little better and see things develop in a way that made sense.

Here, it just feels like just another episode (or a lost episode of Season 4) with a bunch of plotlines that have just sprung up from nowhere and make no sense due to the short "in show" time frame between this premiere and the last season finale.

It was a weak season premiere for sure, but this wasn't as weak a premiere as the season four finale was a finale. The choice to open season five at the end of the school year rather than the beginning of a new one is inexplicable to me, but what's done is done. The episode was a decent episode - there were a handful of great lines, as usual, but the renditions of these Beatles songs weren't as good as they could/should have been (I think I liked "Drive My Car" best, and I thought "Yesterday" was really poorly employed and unearned). I hate the Klaine engagement - coming at this point, anyway - but I figured it was coming.

 

[Schlosser85]

It was a weak season premiere for sure, but this wasn't as weak a premiere as the season four finale was a finale. The choice to open season five at the end of the school year rather than the beginning of a new one is inexplicable to me, but what's done is done. The episode was okay, I guess - there were a handful of great lines, as usual, but I didn't especially like the renditions of these Beatles songs either. I liked "Drive My Car" best, I was let down by most of the others, and I thought "Yesterday" was really poorly employed and unearned. I hate the Klaine engagement - at this point, anyway - but I figured it was coming.

Yesterday felt more like Lea breaking the fourth wall and singing about Cory than Rachel singing about Funny Girl.

And Kurt and Blaine should have just gotten back together this episode and gotten engaged later.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

Yesterday felt more like Lea breaking the fourth wall and singing about Cory than Rachel singing about Funny Girl.

Yeah, true enough. On that meta level, it works well, but in that case, I wish the song had been featured in the episode about Finn's death. I know that's not a Beatles episode, the two before it are, but still. Lea singing it works, Rachel singing it does not, and I don't love that.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It was an ok episode. As far as premiers go? It was probably the worst. Everything was way to happy for the most part. I am starting to hate tribute episodes more and more. Having everyone in Glee PRAISE insert BLANK like they are the best of the best, except for 1 person who then gets a lecture as to why BLANK is the best is annoying.

Artie/Kitty dating is ok but I know they wont last the season so I cant be excited about it. And why should Kitty even have a target on her back by a Cheerio? She is nothing special in the Cheerio world. Isnt captain, isn't a favorite of the coach, commands no power except for the general power all Cheerios have.

Klaine getting back together at this point in the show was BORING. Their entire break up was useless and glossed over. I cant even believe that Kurt would say yes or that Burt would be ok with it at all. Warblers and VA supporting ND? Yeah I doubt that would ever happen.

And they just love to waste peoples time don't they? You bring back Mercedes just to have no lines and cheer up Kurt getting engaged to? Really? Couldn't give her anything remotely important to do?

Of course I wanted more NY mostly to explore Santanas new job and we all know that Rachel is the queen of 2nd chances so I can only fathom where her singing to those guys will go. And of course Santana was just used to prop up Rachel. But at least it looks like next week she will get something of her own.

Poor Tina. Girl juts cant win. Why the writers hate the character so much is beyond me. All they ever do is crap on her.

Glee should be banned from doing cliff hangers. They ALWAYS jump to the end of a cliff hanger and show us nothing in between.

 

[SpideyFan866]

Yesterday felt more like Lea breaking the fourth wall and singing about Cory than Rachel singing about Funny Girl.

And Kurt and Blaine should have just gotten back together this episode and gotten engaged later.

Thank god I'm not the only one who thought that.

The vibe was coming off strong.

 

[Schlosser85]

It was pretty eerie, actually.

It felt like there was this huge elephant in the room.

 

[Schlosser85]

And where is Finn supposed to have been for the past five episodes or so anyway?

Even when Cory was in rehab, they just completely ignored his absence, and it's really feeling like this huge elephant in the room, especially when stuff goes down like the team he was co-director of competing and winning at Regionsls, Will getting married, and his brother getting engaged without even a throwaway line about where the hell he is.

 

[Primal Slayer]

They should have at least mentioned Finn being somewhere instead of not being at Blaines proposal .

 

[Schlosser85]

It's like they're trying to avoid dealing with it until they have to, but instead they're just making it weirder and like he's already been dead for a while and the entire Glee ensemble is in a collective state of denial.