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

[SpideyFan866]

That's an old picture, considering she's given birth by now...

Yeah, like a week ago.

I knew it was an old picture. Just thought I'd post it.

 

[SpideyFan866]

Audio clips from next episode:

http://dominamian.tumblr.com/post/63450948625/bradisourking-all-5-03-the-quarterback-audio

Hearing Rachel's voice breaking all over the place at the end is rough.

The Rachel scenes are gonna be so emotionally ruining.

 

[Schlosser85]

Kurt's audio clip is curious, in that it almost seems to hint Finn did die of an overdose or something similar.

Though I suspect there's gonna be a lot of blurring of Cory/Finn going on.

 

[protocida]

It's Billy Joel, not Billy Idol.

5x05: The End Of Twerk

"Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke - TBA
"If I Were A Boy" - Beyoncé - TBA
"On Our Way" - The Royal Concept - TBA
"Wrecking Ball" - Miley Cyrus - TBA
"You Are Woman, I Am Man" - Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) - TBA

5x06: Movin' Out

"Honesty" - Billy Joel - TBA
"An Innocent Man" - Billy Joel - TBA
"Just The Way You Are" - Billy Joel - TBA
"Movin' Out" - Billy Joel - TBA
"My Life" - Billy Joel - TBA
"Piano Man" - Billy Joel - TBA

Marley is probably singing "Wrecking Ball".

Unique is probably singing "If I Were a Boy". It's the episode where a new bully is introduced, and I imagine she'll be the prime target.

The episode "Movin' Out" is about Blaine and Sam figuring out their post-graduation plans.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Joel, Idol, to soon for another tribute.

 

[Sawyer]

That's lame, I've been wanting to see someone do "Eyes Without A Face" since S1.

 

[Hush]

Man this week is gonna wreck me, its silly but my name is Cory so I always just liked Fin because the actor playing him had my name and its just odd/surreal for me. I also realted with Fin on a lot of levels as a character so the name association just made me draw into his character more, I know its silly but its how I connected.

 

[Schlosser85]

Some spoilers for "The Quarterback":

Spoiler

Thursday’s episode is the first to address the disappearance of Mr. Monteith’s character, Finn, a quarterback turned glee club singer when the series began. The new show opens three weeks after Finn’s funeral, and the entire school is grief-stricken. But there is no hint of how Finn’s life ended. There are no elliptical references to the dangers of substance abuse — not even an Amy Winehouse song.

¶ That decision will undoubtedly disappoint antidrug advocates who may be hoping for a teachable moment, but it’s a bold and respectful one. Rather than milk the tragedy and pump up news media attention and ratings, the show’s writers went out of their way to step around the obvious.

¶ Finn’s stepbrother, Kurt (Chris Colfer), as he prepares to attend a high school memorial, gives the answer while talking to himself: “Everyone wants to talk about how he died, too, but who cares? One moment in his whole life; I care more about how he lived.”

¶ And those words are meaningful, not just for the character, but also for the people who worked with Mr. Monteith.

¶ “Glee” is famous for addressing all kinds of issues related to tolerance; there is even a transgender character. But the show is not particularly known for diffidence or decorum, and neither is its creator, Ryan Murphy, whose credits include “Nip/Tuck” and “American Horror Story.” Last week’s episode also included a recent grad’s big break in show business: singing about yeast infections in an ad for an antifungal cream.

¶ So, of course, on this commemorative episode, there is humor as well as sorrowful songs like “I’ll Stand by You” and “If I Die Young.”

¶ Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) is one of the few students who turns to the jittery guidance counselor, Emma (Jayma Mays), for help with her feelings.

¶ “I just don’t know how much longer I can do this,” Tina says weepily. Emma gently asks her what she means, and Tina tells her she means wearing black.

¶ “This look is so Tina two years ago,” she moans. “I spent so much time transitioning away from Goth, and look at me — it’s like I’m back in that look.”

¶ Emma gives Tina a hug and self-help pamphlets titled “It’s Not All About You” and “Wait, Am I Callous?”

¶ There are more sober messages about the different ways people handle loss. A mother’s grief is indescribable, but the writers find a way for Finn’s mom, Carole (Romy Rosemont), to express herself as she sits on the floor of her son’s room, contemplating the task of packing up his belongings. “You don’t get to stop waking up,” Carole says. “You have to keep on being a parent even though you don’t get to have a child anymore.”

¶ This funny-maudlin tribute to Mr. Monteith won’t please everyone, but no one can accuse the show of crass exploitation.

¶ As usual, Sue (Jane Lynch), the acid-tongued cheerleading coach who’s now the principal, says it best.

¶ In one scene she snaps at the teachers to stop wallowing in their grief. They can best pay tribute to Finn, Sue says, “by not making a self-serving spectacle of our own sadness.”

http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/arts/television/glee-addresses -the-lo ss-of-cory-monteith.html

Good to know they're still throwing Tina under the bus at every opportunity...

 

[Sawyer]

Eh. Its true to the character they've turned her into.

 

[Primal Slayer]

If they had done a better job of evolving Tina into this person it would have been more accepted imo. But they make her into a snob just to constantly tear her down.

 

[Schlosser85]

Well....I'm officially a mess.

The Kurt-Burt-Carole scene, especially Carole's monologue, and the ending with Will wrecked me.

Surprisingly, I wasn't as affected by Rachel as I expected.

 

[RiXi]

I'm not afraid to admit I cried. Santana, Carole, Will and Rachel killed me.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Well....I'm officially a mess.

The Kurt-Burt-Carole scene, especially Carole's monologue, and the ending with Will wrecked me.

Surprisingly, I wasn't as affected by Rachel as I expected.

That was brutal.

I just finished watching it and I kind of just have a tension headache and a stuffed up nose. The whole thing had me a mess... I'm not even sure if I can say that it was a good or bad episode, just a necessary episode.

 

[Sawyer]

God dammit, Mike O'Malley...

 

[Schlosser85]

Mike O'Malley--strong, stoic Papa Bear Hummel-- tearing up just smashes down my defenses. And then Romy finished me off.

 

[Sawyer]

Chord's hair is distracting. Go to Supercuts, hippie.

 

[Schlosser85]

I feel like he needs an intervention about his hair. Seriously. When are you going to cut it?

When??

But yea. I think they did about as good of a job with this as could be expected, whatever that means.

 

[flash13]

Wow, that was a hard episode to watch The ending with Will...

 

[Sawyer]

That Sue scene...

This entire episode...

 

[Sawyer]

That ending...

They did the episode right. All the characters they focused on were the right ones to focus on (Blaine, newbies were essentially non-existent), the emotions were right, all of it.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Very good episode. Not perfect but for what it was I thought it was very good. Hummel family was so sad and just makes me sad/mad that we didn't get that many scenes with them as a family after Carole/Burt got married. I thought all the characters were very in character. Santana/Sue was brutal and I was afraid that they wouldn't resolve them but they did which lead to a very emotional Sue scene. Finally got to see Shue interact with the originals again which he hasn't done since they graduated.

Only things I didn't like were Mercedes/Mile (mainly Mercedes) getting nothing to do except sing. They really should have had a bit more to do. Probably would have had some flashbacks. And as great as Santanas scenes were, the writers seemed to skip over dislike for Finn and her many insults. Part of me thinks that part of her rant on Sue was also geared towards herself and I was half expecting Sue to throw it in her face during the argument.

If Glee sticks to their guns it is going to be sad that this is likely the last time we will see as many originals together until the show does its swan song. Though as much as Santana doesn't want to come back due to her losing someone every time she has come back, it would be a bit weird for her to not come back for Artie and co. graduation.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Mike O'Malley--strong, stoic Papa Bear Hummel-- tearing up just smashes down my defenses. And then Romy finished me off.

It's a turn around from just a few minutes ago on NBC where he's in another sitcom then you switch to Glee

He's crossing the networks!

 

[Sawyer]

Now that the tribute episode is out of the way, I wonder if the media will now stop milking the **** out of Cory's passing or not...

 

[Hunter Rider]

That was a surreal episode of TV, I don't think there's ever been anything like it before where they are paying tribute to both a character's death and the actual actors death at the same time, it was hard to know where the line was and I can't begin to imagine how hard it was to film.

I actually felt some of the odd humour in it was a good fit as that has been the shows quirky M.O. from day one and it felt like that's how the characters would deal with something so tragic. The scenes with Santana and Sue, Santanta and Kurt, Bieste and Puck, and the Kurt, Burt and Carol scene were all heat-wrenching.

On the music side of things I thought Puck's Springsteen, Santana's track she couldn't finish and the song from Artie and Sam were the best.

Not sure about Will stealing the jacket from Santana but I guess grief is an unpredictable thing.

It was a shame Dianna Agron wasn't in the ep.

 

[SuperT]

I guess those rumors of Ryan Murphy not caring for Dianna Agron from a while back must have been true. How could Quinn not be in this episode?!