Glee Episode V: The Sylvester Strikes Back - - - - - Part 14

[JP]

I love Lea's talent, but god do I loathe her as a person. It's fitting that she's stuck on a show that's barely limping along and not getting much work outside of it. She's just heinous. I wish I could say Hollywood changed her, but she's been this way since she was a little girl in New York theater.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Well lets hope thats true. Though knowing this show, they will probably keep her under contract till the end of the season so she can't really pursue any other projects.

 

[Sawyer]

So, what happened here? Joan Crawford finally b****ed about Bette Davis loud enough for Ryan to take action?

 

[Sawyer]

Naya's reps are denying it, for whatever that's worth.

 

[JP]

And they're both doing this fake as hell twitter love fest with each other. Laughable.

 

[Sawyer]

C'mon, JP..... everyone knows it's physically impossible to lie on Twitter.

 

[Specter313]

Just saw this mess, and if they do kick her off for next year, they can watch their rating fall even further. Even before I quit this show, she was one of the only reasons to watch.

If she is free, someone good will snatch Naya up quick. Hopefully Marvel, maybe for one of the Netflix shows. I'm thinking maybe White Tiger as a supporting player for one of them, since she's certainly a street level hero like all those others are.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I doubt she's outright fired, but expect her to have a teeny, teeny tiny role next season.


I'm talking New Directions band small.

 

[SuperT]

Naya is better off without this show to be completely honest. Lea Michele has been the star since season one and she hasn't amounted to much since then.

 

[Sawyer]

I get just as many diva b**** vibes off Naya as I do Lea, so I'm not going to look at one of them as some monster while looking at the other as the show's knight in shining armor.

 

[JP]

I get just as many diva b**** vibes off Naya as I do Lea, so I'm not going to look at one of them as some monster while looking at the other as the show's knight in shining armor.

You're probably right.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I get just as many diva b**** vibes off Naya as I do Lea, so I'm not going to look at one of them as some monster while looking at the other as the show's knight in shining armor.

Agreed.

Both are on equal level when it comes to having a diva attitude.

I think it just ended up boiling down to there not being enough room for their gigantic egos, and one had to go. And since Lea is clearly Murphy's #1, it was Naya.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I just laughed at FOX having no comment on the issue. Clearly if it were false they would say it was false instead of refusing to comment on the situation at the moment.

 

[Schlosser85]

Shirley Maclaine looks like a melting wax statue of herself.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, it's not like she's in her 80s or anything...

 

[Hunter Rider]

Just saw this mess, and if they do kick her off for next year, they can watch their rating fall even further. Even before I quit this show, she was one of the only reasons to watch.

If she is free, someone good will snatch Naya up quick. Hopefully Marvel, maybe for one of the Netflix shows. I'm thinking maybe White Tiger as a supporting player for one of them, since she's certainly a street level hero like all those others are.

She'd have made a fantastic Sith or Bounty Hunter in the new Star Wars film.

 

[Schlosser85]

Yay for Santana/Mercedes. Their duets have pretty much always been awesome.

Shirley Maclaine looks like a melting wax statue of herself.

Random Eric Roberts is random.

Rachel is such a spoiled diva. She finally achieved her lifelong dream of playing Fanny in Funny Girl on Broadway (which fell into her lap ridiculously quickly and easily), and it was a smash hit in her first professional role ever, and she's already trying to get out of it and get onto a TV show? Frankly, Sydney's speech was the smackdown that her overinflated sense of self-importance deserved. Actually, she deserved worse, namely getting fired.

lol @ the meta of Rachel getting cast on a FOX TV series. And once again, this all comes absurdly easy to her, and she has the gall to complain? Ain't nobody got time for that.

lol, she seriously is gonna fly out to LA, audition, and fly back to NYC in time for Funny Girl, in one day? lol wut. Glee has always shown blatant disregard for geographical distances and travel times and expenses, but I think it reached a new level tonight.

Amber Riley did some nice rapping.

I actually thought Colfer and Darren both sounded good on "Story of My Life".

What possessed them to think it was a good idea to give "Piece of my Heart" to Darren and Shirley Maclaine? It doesn't suit Darren's voice, and Shirley just plain...can't sing. It should have been Lea's or Naya's song.

I do like that the episode has a pretty cohesive theme of every character getting some kind of big opportunity that comes with some moral compromise--Mercedes' producer wanting to ditch Santana for a more famous duet partner, Rachel trying to sneak off to LA for an audition behind Sydney's back, June telling Blaine to break off his engagement (that was seriously presumptuous on her part, btw).

lol @ Rachel walking into the audition room and just instantly breaking into song while everyone looks at each other like "?". Oh Rachel.

I both did and didn't want Rachel to somehow get away with the ill-advised mess she got herself into this episode.

I can see why Blaine conveniently neglected to mention "oh btw June thinks I should dump you" to Kurt, but why did he feel the need to lie to Kurt that he has a part in the show? How does he think he's going to get away with that one? Apparently Blaine succumbed to Rachel Syndrome of putting himself into an impossible lie for no real reason.

 

[Schlosser85]

And finally, they really take it over-the-top with how super duper awesome Rachel and Blaine are.

Blaine is so awesome that he got into NYADA on his first try when it rejected Jesse and Rachel and Kurt both had to try multiple times, and now a bigwig socialite is falling over him and showing him off to everyone and creating a show just for him.

And Rachel is ZOMG SO AMAZING that Fox execs are literally creating a show....just for Rachel.

Please.

 

[Sawyer]

Watching the show vicariously through you guys is getting to be enough for me. I just have next to no desire to actually catch up with these episodes. I sure as hell am not watching live. I'm not passing up on The Originals for an hour of Rachel having the world handed to her on a silver platter and Blaine being whatever the **** these writers have morphed Blaine into. To that, I say...

 

[Prison Mike]

I've stopped watching the show a long time ago. I just watch the musical performances that FOX puts up on youtube.

 

[Primal Slayer]

What was with Rachel/Blaines storylines? They had great/funny supporting guest characters but everything about them were boring. It was nice to see Rachel crash and burn though even though nothing really happens to Rachel except her career getting better. Because hey why doesn't it make sense that Rachel finally gets a dose of actual reality only to get put RIGHT BACK ON Cloud 9?

Why couldn't this episode just focus more on Sancedes? They actually (no surprise) had a decent storyline. Santana was used to prop "save" Mercedes and Rachels careers while nothing happened with her own, now she is just beaten down by NY with nothing happening to her. It would be a good storyline if this show actually worked on on going storylines but we know where Santana is going which is no where storyline wise and most likely disappearing off the screen.

And what were they thinking that having Santana "save" Funny Girl but not showing any of it? She and Rachel are like night and day so their performances would be radically different and I wanted to see what Santana did with the role and I wanted to know how she was received.

We have to the point in the show where they know they only have 1 season left so they are just going to be playing FAST and LOOSE with these storylines and time jumps.

And if this were any other show, I would expect Santana/Kurt to grow closer since they are the only ones not really making any waves in NY. Oh and is Santana suppose to be living with Mercedes now or was she just scoping out Mercedes house to loot some stuff? It made no sense that Mercedes unexpectedly comes home and here comes Santana walking right around the corner asking why she is home
Sam/Artie (sadly) werent missed.

 

[Schlosser85]

Because hey why doesn't it make sense that Rachel finally gets a dose of actual reality only to get put RIGHT BACK ON Cloud 9?

That's what's so annoying. She keeps being a spoiled diva brat, and keeps getting rewards just dropped from the sky into her lap.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Says it all

 

[Schlosser85]

Yea, Anders' diplomatic way of saying "pssh, dat ***** is gone"

 

[Hunter Rider]

This weeks ep just made me wish they'd do a Mercedes and Santana spin-off series, easily the most enjoyable aspect.

After a brief couple of eps being a real person Rachel was back to cartoon form and the way her talent is so overblown is ludicrous.

Dean Pelton!

I don't know what to make of the stuff with Blaine and the Gransexual.