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

[Schlosser85]

It's kind of hard to hate on Don't Stop Believing.

 

[Primal Slayer]

me during majority of the episode.

All the songs were good I'll give them that. April randomly disappears, seeing her and Holly in the teachers lounge made me miss when we had adults actually part of the show on a normal basis. I really wish we could've gotten Holly Holiday as the ND instructor, she is always so refreshing to me.

Santanas storyline was useless in the end, I don't buy that she would quit the show, she totally would do a few runs before moving on to bigger and non broadway things.

Dont Stop Believing performance was very fun, though side eyeing them not giving Mercedes a line. And hopefully this is the official retirement of the song but I have feeling we will be hearing it again next season.

This really should've served as Glees series finale.

It was nice of them to give the newbies their own scene, I feel bad for the actors, but at least they collected an easy paycheck.

That graduating class though.....um can you say TINY? There were way to many people there for the amount of seniors that graduated.

Brittana is back on so woot woot to that, though they totally ignored that Santana and Dani kind of never broke up but it was to be expected, they were a couple for all of 2.5 seconds.

 

[Schlosser85]

I like how Will still refers to Vocal Adrenaline as "our mortal enemies", considering VA has been completely irrelevant and not even featured at competitions since Season 3.

The whole "Vocal Adrenaline, dun dun duuuuuuun" effect was gone after Season 1.

 

[Schlosser85]

Okay, here we go. Schlosser's hate-watching session officially begins. Tie yourself down to whatever chair you're sitting in, because this is going to be a rough ****ing ride.

No seriously, I used to look forward to Glee and be impatient to watch it if I couldn't catch it live, and now it's like "meh, I've got a free hour....I guess I'll catch up on Glee".

Here we go.

I can sympathize with Sue being all "hey girlfriend" with Holly and unable to stand a squeaky word out of April's mouth.

I like that Sue is being human about this. She's being extremely considerate to Will's feelings by her standards (or really any standard).

Aaaaand after a moderately enjoyable opening....a voiceover of Tina whining. Because we've never heard her do THAT before!

Blaine got into NYADA. What a twist! (sarcasm). Also, Kurt and Blaine's outfits are both ridiculous, but somehow Kurt manages to look like a somewhat sophisticated young adult, while Blaine just looks like a five-year-old. I don't know if it's something about Colfer and Criss, or just their characters, or what, but somehow Colfer gets away with the nonsense he wears and Darren doesn't.

Oh God. This fantasy sequence is hideous. The context completely ruined any enjoyment of Klaine's makeout session (which was surprisingly....forthright, considering it lasted two seconds).

I skipped ahead the second I heard an actual laugh track. I can't even watch this ****. Seriously, what the hell was the point of those five minutes? Besides giving me a yummy Klaine makeout gif.

Glee forgets entire plotlines and the existences of various characters, but it at least remembers the really worthwhile things...like Mercedes' obsession with tater tots.

Hooray for two minutes of Kurtcedes, I guess, but this song is super boring. Also, Kurt and Mercedes, what you did there was so unsubtle even Brittany saw it.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not up to Rachel to just give Santana certain days to play Fanny Bryce.

Paltrow is more pointless than ever, but watching her perform "Party all the Time" while dressed like Temple Grandin is more entertaining than most of what else is going on. I'm not sure what that says, but I'm sure it says something. Blaine looked strangely fascinated with her Temple Grandin roleplaying. Although any scene where Blaine's hair is less gelled than usual gets at least a point or two in my book, because he's instantly better-looking.

And right after what was actually a really fun Holly number, we get Santana being drawn back into a relationship with a mental two-year-old. Am I the only who finds Brittana just downright icky on a mental level? It's mentally an adult dating a little kid. A little kid who got dropped on her head a lot.

"You and I are the only two truly awesome people I've ever met". Pssh, Brittany, my cat's **** is more awesome than you.

What the hell does Santana being a former closeted lesbian have to do with Broadway somehow suddenly not being a goal for her because Brittany says so? And Santana just says "oh ok, suddenly I'm not ferociously ambitious and I'll run away with you (because the writers come up with lazy ways to write characters off the show)". Character assassination and toxic one-sided relationships FTW!

Yay, more Tina whining. Let's sing another group song with her to cheer her up! Or just tell her to grow up and get over herself.

Also, re: Loser Like Me, way to take a song whose cheesy lyrics were originally only alleviated by its fun boppy beat and make it unbearably sappy.

Way to never acknowledge Santana's current girlfriend. Dani went the way of Adam, apparently. I'd almost be offended by the writers blatantly not caring about "mid-game" love interests like Adam or Dani...except Kurt and Santana obviously didn't either. Sucks to be Adam and Dani, I guess.

Tina's not going to New York after all. Thank God.

Okay, I have to admit, that was fairly ballsy of Glee referring to One Million Moms (a group that has protested Glee several times) by name and calling them uptight *****es. I smell another protest.

Ok, the last few minutes of the video and "Don't Stop Believing" and Will and Sue's conversation and Finn's voice in the choir room was pretty moving. Can't hate there.

 

[Primal Slayer]

When did Blaine audition for NYADA? What was his audition song? Where did he audition? He just gets accepted out of no where.

 

[Schlosser85]

When did Blaine audition for NYADA? What was his audition song? Where did he audition? He just gets accepted out of no where.

They mentioned it in "Movin Out" a few episodes ago, when he and Sam visited NYC, but they never showed his audition. It happened offscreen.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I liked the acoustic performance of Loser and the Quinn/Punk and Rachel/Santana duets. I also thought the scenes where they put the video together for Will before singing Don't Stop Believin' and the last scene with Will and Sue were pretty good.

So is that it for the newbies? I have to say if it is the guy playing Ryder got a nice payday for sitting watching the last few eps.

 

[Hunter Rider]

"You and I are the only two truly awesome people I've ever met". Pssh, Brittany, my cat's **** is more awesome than you.

What the hell does Santana being a former closeted lesbian have to do with Broadway somehow suddenly not being a goal for her because Brittany says so? And Santana just says "oh ok, suddenly I'm not ferociously ambitious and I'll run away with you (because the writers come up with lazy ways to write characters off the show)". Character assassination and toxic one-sided relationships FTW!

Glad I'm not the only one, it makes zero sense to me on any level. Also, was Heather Morris wearing baggy clothes all the time for a reason?

 

[Schlosser85]

At least reuniting Samcedes apparently means they're veering away from those disturbing hints of Samchel earlier.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

It's the weirdest thing for me with this show. I didn't want to watch it at first, then started watching season 1, fell in love with it, bought BR set, watched it all, then same with season 2, then season 3 started, I watched like one episode and got fed up with it, every character seemed to be a caricature, what I loved before, I now hated.

It sounds like it has gone really downhill since then.

 

[JP]

I can't even comment on this show anymore. Pretty much what Schloss all said.

 

[Prison Mike]

Am I the only one who kind of liked Samchel?

 

[protocida]

I wouldn't mind it.

Anyway, here's some details about the upcoming episodes.

Spoiler

Sam and Mercedes become roommates and get back together. There's some drama about her still being a virgin and reluctant to have sex with him.

Blaine and Kurt are living together. Blaine gets jealous of Starchild and there's also some drama about Blaine feeling too fat. Thank God they axed Lima so we can get really important plots like that.

Artie apparently dumps Kitty off-screen and begins having a lot of one night stands, which lead to an STD scare.

Tina, Will and Sue go to NY in episode 17 to watch Funny Girl. Sue is forced to go because she has been talking trash about it back in Lima and needs proof it's bad.

Funny Girl will apparently be a flop, forcing Rachel to resort to a "back-up plan".

Season 6 is about "comebacks". While it is probably about Rachel after the Funny Girl flop, there's some rumblings we might see the glee club back as well.

Also, season 5 will only have 20 episodes.

 

[Schlosser85]

Sam and Mercedes become roommates and get back together.

At least they veered away from Samchel.

there's also some drama about Blaine feeling too fat

So is Murphy now going to pretend Darren is somehow fat since he doesn't have Cory to make incessant nonsensical fat jokes about anymore?

Literally none of the spoilers sound interesting.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I wonder if FOX is going to cut S6 episode order to like 13 since the ratings have gone to hell. Though it is hard to believe that they cut this season to 20 when they are already filming 18/19 though with Glee not like they are building up to anything.

Am I the only one who kind of liked Samchel?

yes.

 

[Sawyer]

Artie apparently dumps Kitty off-screen and begins having a lot of one night stands, which lead to an STD scare.

Can the STD be a life threatening one? Because I'm kinda tired of his ****.

 

[Schlosser85]

Yea, does anyone actually care about Artie? I'm kind of surprised he's going to NYC.

 

[flash13]

Am I the only one who kind of liked Samchel?

Hopefully, because yuck.

 

[Prison Mike]

yes.

Hopefully, because yuck.

 

[Primal Slayer]

On another note, I looked at the nude shoot Naya did last year for Allure and it is like she split herself in half now, she needs to put on that weight instead of being hollywood thin.

 

[Schlosser85]

Yea Naya looked her best last season when she didn't have scrawny chicken legs and visible ribs. Bony is not attractive at all, no matter what Hollywood and the fashion industry's twisted standards of "beauty" want everyone to believe.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I never noticed until listening to the acapella version of Bad Romance how much Naya/Amber carried the song secretly. Besides Chris and the other girls giving one line each, it is all Naya/Amber

 

[Sawyer]

http://thebacklot.tumblr.com/post/81385488447/ryan-murphy-to-helm-hbos-looking-during-a

I was about to get really ****ing angry until it hit me what day this is.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Lol, I can only image how crazy RM would go on a HBO show. All that freedom? Scary

In other news:

And I never knew that Naya auditioned for the role of Mercedes, that character would have been totally different now if they had tweaked the role for her.

 

[Sawyer]

I like Blaine and Sam much more as a couple when they're fighting. Their gooey, lovey dovey breakfast chit chat was borderline sickening.

Also, Rachel needs Santana there. If not to brutally beat her back down to earth, then at least to tell her to snap out of this nonsense of hers.