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Some (a lot of) thoughts about the episode

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lettersfromtitan:

From both lovely polite anons and angry angry anons:

Colfer has said, repeatedly, that he does not view himself as a singer and is not interested in singing if it doesn’t advance the narrative. This is why he is often not on jukebox songs or audible in the mix and why his solos are rare, remarkable things that we all freak out about, because they give him such powerful material when the opportunity arises.

Yes, his voice is remarkable. Yes, I want to hear him more. But this is not what Glee does with him for a range of reasons including actor preference, narrative, and song sales. Honestly, probably in that order at this point. Although I will also concede that they just aren’t good at dealing with his voice in group numbers very often, because they don’t know how because he doesn’t really fit into the vocal idioms used on the show with much constancy.

I don’t want to keep talking about this, because the conversation devolves into “Glee/the writers/Ryan Murphy are being mean/bad for not giving me what I want” very, very quickly.

It is what it is. We are not owed it to be different. Especially when Kurt’s NYADA plot isn’t about his skill but about being present in his heart and body. His singing happens when he has been pushed until there is no other choice. Look, for a crass analogy, Rachel Berry just comes easier.

I would much rather we talk about the extraordinary quality of Colfer’s voice and how fucking lucky and random it is that we get to hear it at all, and our anxieties about what singing work he’ll do after Glee, than about Glee being exactly the beast it is and not giving us everything we always wanted.

Lol, Chris doesn’t want to sing on the show? Sure, if you disregard every interview where he’s mentioned songs he’s wanted to sing. He doesn’t consider himself a singer first and is unlikely to ever make an album, but that’s completely different from wanting to sing on a show that is a musical and that derives so much of its emotion from musical moments.

Especially when Kurt’s NYADA plot isn’t about his skill but about being present in his heart and body.

He’s in a performing arts school. Being present in his heart and body? That’s a really interesting way of saying the writers don’t know wtf to do with Kurt there given how absent he’s been for actual NYADA things. It’s more than just a little ridiculous that on a show where multiple characters (some a lot, lot more than others) break into song for any emotional beat, Kurt’s is the only one that’s for some profound, realistic character-building reason rather than just general fuckery where some actors get way more songs than they should and some don’t get the things they should.

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Anonymous asked: yeah I see the point of the kadam post you reblogged, but it would make more sense if most of its shippers weren't ex (or currently) kurtofsky/kurbastian/kum shippers, basically klaine haters, who bitched and moaned for two years while klaine was a happy and in love couple. I'm side eyeing them so hard, sigh.

Hm, I don’t quite agree that shipping those pairings automatically mean they hate Kurt/Blaine or, more importantly, have been gross and offensive about their opinions on Kurt/Blaine under the flimsy guise of activism, simply because they hate Blaine or Kurt. But yes, there were a couple of likes and reblogs there that made me laugh and side-eye them a lot because they’ve been incredibly awful (and somewhat delusional) about Kurt/Blaine while pretending that it’s about representation and activism rather than a massive amount of grudginess about the pairing of their choice not being canon. Basically, fandom often sucks as much as it can be great.

Anonymous asked: Unsurprisingly, many Blaine fans are trying to turn Adam into a creepy, pushy guy who was completely inappropriate in that scene. I just... ha ha, guys, don't you see how you're acting? What would you do if he told Kurt to lower his hands IS WHAT I'M SAYING. He's not endgame, you don't need to make up things in the meantime.

Unfortunately, the gross and completely over the top hate Blaine seems to get from some people who never managed to get over that lower your hands thing is now being completely reflected by some people on the other side, who are repeating exactly the same illogical things that they were so upset at seeing their favorite character getting.

There are legitimate reasons to not care for or even dislike a character, including Kurt, Blaine, Adam, anyone on the show, but some of the twisting around to make a harmless character and perfectly reasonable and decent behavior into evil machinations by a pushy villain and trying to turn Kurt into someone who’s just playing around with Blaine’s heart despite being completely clear to both Blaine and Adam about where he is at this point (and with really, really good reasons for it) has been an incredible exercise in frustration to see when I have the misfortune to stumble across it.

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airgeer:

Why on earth would you post Kurt-bashing in the guise of Kurt/Blaine to kurt_blaine? (lol say that five times fast) Like, it’s a rhetorical question, I know exactly why you’re doing it, but I wish you’d fuck off to Blaine/Sebastian since that’s clearly where you want to be.

#are you writing in an au where Blaine never cheated and Sebastian never put Blaine in the hospital?

You don’t get it, sometimes it’s really important to write K/Bl fic and post it to the pairing comm to point out how awful and selfish Kurt is to poor woobie Blaine (who apparently has no backbone, how flattering) and how much better Sebastian is in comparison, because  canon is really falling behind there.

Yet again, I remain glad that I watch canon and not this version. At least the Blaine haters don’t pretend to ship Kurt/Blaine :/

countess7:

wowbright:

castlesbuiltintheair:

but the fact that blaine was blinded in one eye and sitting on a bed pre-surgery and kurt was 500000000000 feet away from him

but tina climbs on top of blaine when he’s unconscious and rubs VAPOR RUB ON HIM its okay

Um, no, it’s not okay. Just because they show something on TV does not mean it’s okay, and it doesn’t mean that the writers, actors, producers, or even characters think it’s okay. What Tina did was a violation, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Tina may tell herself that she deserved to touch him that way, that he should let her touch him that way because she loves him so much and can’t help herself. She is lying to herself.

If it wasn’t sexual assault, it came pretty damn close.

If Blaine ever finds out about it I do believe he will be appropriately freaked out.

But the issue here is that Ryan’s tweet about Tina’s storyline very, very clearly shows that he thinks all of this is about Tina’s loneliness. They never actually did any big thing about Quinn saying she felt fat and drunk when she slept with Puck. There are interpretations of gravity of actions and their consequences and valid ways of looking differently at things that happen, but nothing about this scene suggests that there will be a calling out of what Tina did because it’s not coded as wrong, it’s just about Tina’s sadness and the conclusions she reached there, which apparently ended with her discovering her inner diva and finally being recognized as a valuable member of ND.

And it’s both frustrating on a purely physical double standard level (the yard long handhold vs this) and the level where nothing RM’s said about it suggests that he finds this or the completely craptastic borderline racist dialog about being in a sexless relationship to be more than a midway for this storyline. It really, really sucks that he’s saying it through someone as sweet previously as Tina just for some drama when he’s bothered to do nothing good for her character before.

butterscotchcreys:

1. Tina Cohen Chang
2. Kurt Hummel
3. Tina Cohen Chang
4. Unique Adams
5. Tina Cohen Chang
6. Quinn Fabray
7. Tina Cohen Chang
8. Marley Rose
9. Tina Cohen Chang
10. Tina Cohen Chang

I don’t know how many more people can tell Marley in how many more ways that she’s awesome and perfect, though the show needs to lay off the super gross bulimia/eating disorder jokes especially when the guys get to have serious discussions about body issues and the girls get jokes. And yep, Tina should probably occupy all top 5 spots herself by now. But, also, even though i don’t disagree with the list or how badly these characters have been treated in canon, maybe this is a tad bit of an overreaction to an actor talking about his extended headcanon for his perfectly inoffensive character maybe?

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Just as an addendum to my last post, if your opinion of one person in the pairing you profess to love has reached barely disguised levels of seething hatred, maybe you should stop pretending to love the pairing or pretend that you give a damn about them together, and just move on to a pairing where both characters work for you much better. It’s really, really not necessary to love both of them equally, but it is pretty necessary to at least like the one you don’t love as much.

Anonymous asked: I love it when these 'grown-up Glee' fans start critizising Chris for his views on the Klaine break-up because he doesn't share their opinions! <3

I’m not quite sure what prompted this? But yes, I do kind of share in the frustration at some of the reactions and a lot of the over the top projections about the actors from both sides. I think Chris is off about the I love yous bit specifically to maybe split a hair, but I don’t see anything wrong with what he said otherwise, and I find it a little strange to examine an actor’s opinions about the character he portrays and what he finds interesting to act out the way we as fans do. I also don’t base my shipping/fannish opinions on what an actor thinks, I ship the way I want to.

Also, as an aside, nothing irritates me more than some fans talking about how a gay man doesn’t understand how important a gay couple on network primetime is as representation. Shipping really should not get in the way of real life logic.

agletthatiscracked:

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Things and stuff about Marley and my disinterest in her and why I’m sad about how they didn’t repeat Rachel properly the way they thought they did.

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