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themadpokerHey peeps. After breakfast this morning I found myself with some free time. How to fill it, I wondered. Perhaps I could watch the new episode of Sungkyunkwan Scandal and spend a happy hour cooing over my new fictional boyfriend? (Moon Jae-Shin, you’re so dreamy! Already my heart feels anticipatory woe thinking on how you are destined not to be with Yoon Hee. I cannot decide whether I prefer love triangle with two likeable candidates or with one good guy and one detestable guy. Because with one my heart is destined to be broken and with the other I can only frustratedly demand to know why guy the second is even a contender?)
However! I had to eliminate this thought because I did not have an hour, only about 45 minutes. What could I watch? I was already caught up on TVD and Nikita. And then I came across![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hmsharmony’s post where she mentioned liking this week’s episode of Glee. It was up on Global whispered a traitorous voice in my head. Without commercials it’d be about 42 minutes. You can always fast-forward if things start getting particularly irritating.
Dear flist I succumbed. I think there is some part of me destined to keep watching Glee no matter how frustrating it gets. Perhaps I should simply accept this as part of myself. I suspect it is a close cousin to the part of me that keeps reading the House of Night books even though they remain unremittingly terrible.
This week’s episode got me thinking over one aspect of Glee that is particularly irritating for me. (Just one! I acknowledge there are many ways in which Glee is terrible but this one stood out to me in this episode in particular.)
Glee does this think where it creates potentially interesting ships! And then it totally ignores them in favour of focusing on the other guy who is ~pining~ over the female half of the couple. Take for example Mike/Tina. From what I’ve seen of them they look to have much cuteness potential! Mike character development potential! Abs! And yet this show keeps focusing on Artie’s quest to win Tina back? Glee, I don’t care about Artie. I’m sure it’s really sad for him and all but maybe he should’ve considered being a better boyfriend back when he was? Give me the Mike/Tina cuteness I am craving okay? I know you’re going to break them up so they could at least get their version of the rollerskating hamburgers scene. (Also give Mike some lines before the break up, my God. I was actually excited when I heard Mike/Tina was happening, I thought perhaps they were going to fulfill item 9 on my list? I should’ve guessed Glee would be perfectly capable of writing Mike/Tina without bothering to develop Mike any further).
The other example of this is Emma/Carl the Hot Dentist. Carl fares better than Mike in that he’s actually allowed to speak but do you know to whom most of his lines are addressed? Will Douchester. Why show why, where are you getting the idea that Will is the character I’d care for in this situation? I don’t want Emma/Carl to be told through Will’s viewpoint! I want it from Emma’s. And I guess it all goes back to the fact that this show is always most interested in its white* guys perspective to the extent that even the girls romantic storylines don’t get to be seen through their eyes.
* I feel this is worth noting because well, Mike. And Matt. Remember Matt? You probably don’t since he never got to say anything and was written off in 2.01 to make room for...Sam Evans. Who got more lines in his first episode then Matt did the whole first season. I think the facts speak for themselves.
So much negativity is bad for my soul. I think I'm going to go cleanse it with that episode of SKS I didn't get to in the morning. =)
However! I had to eliminate this thought because I did not have an hour, only about 45 minutes. What could I watch? I was already caught up on TVD and Nikita. And then I came across
hmsharmony’s post where she mentioned liking this week’s episode of Glee. It was up on Global whispered a traitorous voice in my head. Without commercials it’d be about 42 minutes. You can always fast-forward if things start getting particularly irritating.Dear flist I succumbed. I think there is some part of me destined to keep watching Glee no matter how frustrating it gets. Perhaps I should simply accept this as part of myself. I suspect it is a close cousin to the part of me that keeps reading the House of Night books even though they remain unremittingly terrible.
This week’s episode got me thinking over one aspect of Glee that is particularly irritating for me. (Just one! I acknowledge there are many ways in which Glee is terrible but this one stood out to me in this episode in particular.)
Glee does this think where it creates potentially interesting ships! And then it totally ignores them in favour of focusing on the other guy who is ~pining~ over the female half of the couple. Take for example Mike/Tina. From what I’ve seen of them they look to have much cuteness potential! Mike character development potential! Abs! And yet this show keeps focusing on Artie’s quest to win Tina back? Glee, I don’t care about Artie. I’m sure it’s really sad for him and all but maybe he should’ve considered being a better boyfriend back when he was? Give me the Mike/Tina cuteness I am craving okay? I know you’re going to break them up so they could at least get their version of the rollerskating hamburgers scene. (Also give Mike some lines before the break up, my God. I was actually excited when I heard Mike/Tina was happening, I thought perhaps they were going to fulfill item 9 on my list? I should’ve guessed Glee would be perfectly capable of writing Mike/Tina without bothering to develop Mike any further).
The other example of this is Emma/Carl the Hot Dentist. Carl fares better than Mike in that he’s actually allowed to speak but do you know to whom most of his lines are addressed? Will Douchester. Why show why, where are you getting the idea that Will is the character I’d care for in this situation? I don’t want Emma/Carl to be told through Will’s viewpoint! I want it from Emma’s. And I guess it all goes back to the fact that this show is always most interested in its white* guys perspective to the extent that even the girls romantic storylines don’t get to be seen through their eyes.
* I feel this is worth noting because well, Mike. And Matt. Remember Matt? You probably don’t since he never got to say anything and was written off in 2.01 to make room for...Sam Evans. Who got more lines in his first episode then Matt did the whole first season. I think the facts speak for themselves.
So much negativity is bad for my soul. I think I'm going to go cleanse it with that episode of SKS I didn't get to in the morning. =)
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Date: 2010-09-29 08:39 pm (UTC)I stick with it because sometimes it is genuinely hilarious (the writers have a real talent with one-liners, or at least ones that make me break things laughing) but the thing that really got me in this last episode was Jacob.
Worst. Jewish. Stereotype. EVER. I kind of wonder how that character is even allowed to exist. I mean, wtf?
There's also what you pointed out about the white guys always being more interesting/made more interesting which is more subtle but just as frustrating. I actually liked Tina and Artie because they were such an odd couple who both kind of have problems, but Tina and Mike could be really cool too if the writers give them a chance.
Here's hoping they will?
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Date: 2010-09-29 08:54 pm (UTC)I actually did used to like Tina/Artie. I just...idk I'm starting to think the more the show focuses on a thing the less I like it? Because fandom actually manages to write all these ships in an interesting way! Whenever Glee gives more time to a character they inevitably begin to come off as kind of a jerk. I'm feeling this a little with Kurt too actually. :/
Or! Huh. You know I think part of it is that Glee defaults to mean and/or jerk on all of its characters? So the more they show up the worse they come off. Whereas when they're rarely shown there's alot of imaginative room for me to interpret them however I like.