Musical Glee Episode V: The Sylvester Strikes Back - - - - - - Part 15

[Primal Slayer]

Doesn't matter, Santana has had sex with both of them so I still win in the end

 

[Primal Slayer]

Naya on her Glee audition

"I didn’t know anything about it when I started off. It was just another audition, and I knew that I had to sing. So I had to drive to go buy sheet music and pick out a song to sing, but other than that I didn’t know anything. Santana didn’t have any lines in the pilot, so I had to read Mercedes lines. The whole bit about not being able to get stank ass out of polyester. I auditioned twice and booked the gig."

I know they have to have that tape somewhere, I want to see her as Mercedes, would be hilarious.

 

[Sawyer]

I hate Blaine so much in this pic, you guys.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Only took him a whole flashfoward to lay off the gel, but WHAT is Kurt! That hair. That outfit. That scarf. U.G.L.Y.

 

[Sawyer]

It's really amazing how far this show has fallen from grace over the course of six seasons. The show will be over in three days and I honestly don't even care.

I think about Sons of Anarchy and Parenthood and Parks and Rec, and going into their final episodes, I was dreading the fact that they were ending, but also happy that they were given the chance to have their stories play out to completion. With Glee, I feel nothing but relief that it's over.

 

[Schlosser85]

It's downright depressing to think back on Season 1 or 2 and reflect how far the show has deteriorated since then.

I'm sure it'll be bittersweet to me to finally see it end once and for all, and part of me is a little sad about it just because I've stuck with it so long, but honestly a bigger part of me is glad it's ending, because it's gotten so stupid that I don't know how much longer I could have stuck with it.

The writers just blatantly ran out of ****s to give a while ago and aren't even trying to give any of the main characters we've followed for years any kind of properly-developed send-off. Because nope, spending half an episode on a random tween twink's Bar Mitzvah, or 2/3 of an episode on Geraldo Rivera trashing Sue is more important than actually concluding anybody's story in more than 2 minutes of a flashforward epilogue where of course everyone will be magically uber-successful and living happily ever after.

They're really giving the few loyal fans they still have a big fat middle finger at this point, and I don't care what you think about Glee or its fans, as a showrunner, you owe them more than this.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

It's downright depressing to think back on Season 1 or 2 and reflect how far the show has deteriorated since then.

I'm sure it'll be bittersweet to me to finally see it end once and for all, and part of me is a little sad about it just because I've stuck with it so long, but honestly a bigger part of me is glad it's ending, because it's gotten so stupid that I don't know how much longer I could have stuck with it.

The writers just blatantly ran out of ****s to give a while ago and aren't even trying to give any of the main characters we've followed for years any kind of properly-developed send-off. Because nope, spending half an episode on a random tween twink's Bar Mitzvah, or 2/3 of an episode on Geraldo Rivera trashing Sue is more important than actually concluding anybody's story in more than 2 minutes of a flashforward epilogue where of course everyone will be magically uber-successful and living happily ever after.

They're really giving the few loyal fans they still have a big fat middle finger at this point, and I don't care what you think about Glee or its fans, as a showrunner, you owe them more than this.

its not even just that.. there's a clear tonal difference between the first season and now... Glee looked and felt like a quarky indie film and you really felt that it was a show about misfits... during season 2 it just became so streamlined bubbly, colorful.. and the indie/misfit feel totally went away

 

[Schlosser85]

It also totally abandoned its satirical undertone and became earnest to a preachy extent about what it once mocked.

I mean, Season 1 had these scattered serious, heartfelt moments between, say, Kurt and his father, but it wasn't overdone to an overwhelming extent. It worked well because it was scattered serious moments in a quirky offbeat show that grounded it a little without getting obtrusive. Later, Murphy just turned the whole show into a PSA about every social issue known to mankind.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

honestly, i don't even blame Murphy for it.. i think he really abandoned ship ages ago.. and hasn't honestly been involved all that much for years.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I don't even know how the show got worse going from 3 writers to like 6 or 7. Did they pick them up off from the street?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I don't even know how the show got worse going from 3 writers to like 6 or 7. Did they pick them up off from the street?

i actually think sometimes the more ideas in a room, the worse your final product may be.. sometimes it's better for it.. but usually it's worse. I deal with committees all the time at work.. and more often than not you start off with a great idea and it quickly becomes a hollow shell trying to please everyone.. and looks generic as hell.

I get the vibe some of that may be going on.. and others might not even be taking it seriously.. going on vacations leaving half the team to write (it'd explain the inconsistency) and people just might be not truly paying any attention to whats going on...

 

[Primal Slayer]

God how I was praying they would sing this song during The Quaterback


Or sometime this season in remembrance of Finn. Artie/Mercedes/Santana/Puck would've been great for some main vocals.

 

[Primal Slayer]

TVLines Glee Top Divas
http://tvline.com/gallery/glee-best...na-series-finale-photos/#!1/glee-divas-artie/

1. Santana Lopez
While Rachel exerts all of her energy trying to emulate divas of old — see exhibit B(arbra Streisand) — Santana unapologetically lives her life as the kind of diva that young girls and gays will someday aspire to be. People look to her for honesty, albeit brutal, because she's earned the right to tell it like it is. And let's never forget the time she took on Ms. Berry's signature song, Funny Girl's "Don't Rain on My Parade," not only making it her own, but basically blowing Rachel out of the water. Santana is the future.

2. Rachel Berry
On paper, Rachel should be the show's No. 1 diva. Not only was she New Directions' go-to girl for competition-crushing ballads, but she's one of the few characters who actually achieved her dreams, becoming a star on Broadway. Where she falls short, frankly, is attitude. A true diva doesn't care what other people think of her, which is something Rachel never managed to master, despite her countless successes over the years. From the time she choked at her NYADA audition to the months she hid from society after starring in that horrendously offensive sitcom pilot, Rachel has turned sweating her haters into a full-time job.

3. Mercedes Jones
Mercedes officially threw down her diva gauntlet with Season 1's "Bust Your Windows," and she's remained a force to be reckoned with ever since. Unwaveringly true to herself, when society told Ms. Jones she didn't fit its standards of beauty, she flipped it off and downed another plate of tots. Additionally, she never let a man put her second — and when they tried, she chewed them up, spit them out and left the mess for someone else to sweep up. (Bye, Shane!)

 

[Prison Mike]

Wow TVLine is pretty obsessed with Glee.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, it's the show's final week. I'm sure they can come up with at least five show-related lists leading up to the finale.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Naya on Glee:

"In the pilot it was really one off to me, in my mind. I figured I would play her as a *****y sidekick. But after that, when I was sitting in a choir room with a ton of people, I would think, “ How will I stand out without having any lines.” I told my husband the other day, I was like rolling my eyes and popping my neck for every joke. I wanted that camera on me."

"I met Ryan when he was directing the pilot. At that point I didn’t know if I would be coming back at all. Ryan just walked up to Dianna and I at one point and said, “You need to learn “Say A Little Prayer.” And I go, “Hi, I’m Naya, what is that?” And he says, “It’s a song by so-and-so, and you might be singing it the next episode.” And then he walked away, just like that."

"The first person that I met was Dianna, because we were sharing a trailer. We had the really small trailers that had the divider in the middle, so we met and opened it up so we could have more space. We became really fast friends because we did our scenes together, and her character wasn’t yet in the glee club either. So she hadn’t met all the other kids who had already been in rehearsals for a week together. It felt kind of like a clique right off the bat. Like, “who are these originals, they don’t want to talk to us!” But that all changed quickly as we got into the series."

Glee Pilot Oral History, Part 3: Let's Go to School | Out Magazine

So Lea Michele lol

Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang): I came out to L.A. and Lea had taken me to dinner the first night. I had rehearsal the next day with Kevin, Amber, and Chris. For some reason Lea wasn’t there, and Cory hadn’t been cast yet. So she goes, “tell me everything about them, and tell me who we like and who we don’t.” [Laughs]

And I wouldn't expect anything less from RM from how he briefly comes off in Nayas first encounter with him.

 

[Sawyer]

That bit about Ryan doesn't sound all that bad.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It's not bad but it is exactly how I picture him. Straight to the point then just walks away.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

It's not bad but it is exactly how I picture him. Straight to the point then just walks away.

Thats most of hollywood towards non main cast members, which she wasn't at the time. Just a glorified extra

 

[Primal Slayer]

I don't see him being much different with much of the main cast, that is just how I seem being.

 

[Schlosser85]

Chris Colfer reflects on Glee:

I was 18 but my dad was still driving me because I was too afraid to drive in LA at the time. I will never forget – Lea Michele, who I’d never met before, was in a Mini Cooper in front of us pulling onto the lot. I recognized her instantly because I was obsessed with Spring Awakening when I was like 14. We both got turned away because we weren’t allowed to park on the lot. She was in the callback with me and I could hear her singing in the next room over. I went in, and the rest was history. There’s a whole story about how Ryan [Murphy] saw me and said, “Why do I have a feeling you’ve been in The Sound of Music?” I sang and made a joke about my hometown, and the rest is history.

“Defying Gravity” I think will always stand out just because that storyline to the character was something I had lived through. That was super special. To this day, I think one of the best things the show has done is portrayed the relationship between me and Mike O’Malley – the Kurt and Burt relationship. I’ll never forget, when I first got the script and I saw that he accepted Kurt for who he was, I got so mad because I was an actor and I was like, “No! I want a scene where I get kicked out and I’m crying! And I’m so emotionally distraught! That is what I want!” Little did I know it was something good for mankind.

Do you have a favorite memory of Cory Monteith?
He really was the big brother I never had. I have to say – I hope I don’t get emotional – I always felt so respected by Cory, and I think being a young gay kid, I’ve never really felt respected very much by older straight types, I guess. But with Cory, I think we just respected each other so much and we respected working with each other so much. I think that’s what I’ll always remember – the abundant respect that he gave everyone. I think that’s why it was such a hard loss. It was so hard to see betrayed when he passed away in his life – that didn’t represent who he was.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/19/chris-colfer-reflects-glee-and-cory-monteith-he-really-was-big-brother-i-never

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2015/03/19/glee-best-worst-villains-sue-sylvester-santana-lopez/

Terrible list. Some of those don't even qualify as villains.

 

[Schlosser85]

Half the people on that list aren't villains. How are Sugar or Spencer villains? Or Carmen Tibideaux??

Brody wasn't a "villain".

And calling Santana a villain is an oversimplification. Like Puck, she may have started out as an antagonist, but they both grew out of such a simple label.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Obviously the list should've been the top witches of the show since that is what majority of them were. Snarky, witty, and spoke their minds.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

considering half the "villains" (if not more) on glee turned good.. i can see why they did what they did. I can see why they included them as villains.. because they all were at one time or another, even if for a short time