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Lexie ([personal profile] wakeupnew) wrote2010-11-23 01:55 pm

it's a beautiful night

I figured out why I've been getting weird, late waves of comments on the last Glee fic I wrote: someone linked it at TVTropes. ksdfjjsdjgdkfh what is this.

So far today I have:
-Made a pretty card for a coworker
-Written congratulatory notes and drawn squiggles all over the conference room white board
-Spent 45 minutes going through old photographs with a fellow 20-something intern (he is my very favorite intern) and giggling hysterically at the hairstyles that some of our coworkers had in the 1980s
-Also spent those 45 minutes eating doughnuts and congratulating coworker on her 25-year work anniversary
-Had my annual employee review, in which bosslady & her boss told me how awesome I am and how much they love me and how bereft the office will be without me
-Gotten paid for all of this

Sometimes, work is like middle school, except awesome.

A new promo for tonight's episode of Glee leaked! It is completely ridiculous but I kind of love it anyway. Check it under the cut. Very, very, very vague speculation based on spoilers, below the embed.



Legitimately incredibly adorable. I love all of the dance moves and the callbacks to the original "dance down the aisle" YouTube video (Kurt and Mercedes's spinning is the most obvious one that I spotted), and the fact that they all do Soulja Boy together at the end. It is make-your-teeth-hurt sweet and I DON'T EVEN CARE, it is so fucking cute. Brittany/Santana/streamers OT3.

That said, I find it completely absurd/awkward that only the couples sing. I mean, it's a performance, not an honest expression of intent; Brittany and Artie are not actually singing that they want to marry each other. I don't see why Kurt and Mercedes (and, I guess, Puck and Santana) couldn't have sung together. But that's Glee for you. This is also the episode where Burt and Carole get engaged and then married within the course of 45 minutes, and where the high school glee club is the entire wedding party, so I'm basically giving up on anything making sense.

The fact that Sam has a huge prominent shiner in this scene and there isn't a mark on anybody else is very, very interesting to me. I'm thinking that the wedding may not actually be the final scenes of the episode, because everyone looks very, very happy and carefree considering the other stuff that has been rumored to be in the episode. I'm also thinking that Sam's role in said stuff may not be what fandom has been predicting. WHO KNOWS.

I had never heard of Bruno Mars before Glee started covering his music this season, but I have to say that I kind of FUCKING LOVE "Marry You" and "Just the Way You Are" after looking them up. It is an unironic love. It's so catchy! I am really, really hoping that Finn sings "Just the Way You Are" to Carole (leaving out the verse or two that would be inappropriate), because that shit would be straight up adorable and Carole has really gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to characterization/screentime. I mean, it would be cute sung to Rachel (and, given that Finn actually says the words "you're amazing" to Rachel in one of the promos, I am assuming he's singing it to her), but I am holding out hope for adorable mother/son moment.

Day 01 - Your favorite male character
Day 02 - Your favorite female character
Day 03 - Your favorite group performance
Day 04 - Your favorite solo
Day 05 - Your favorite duet
Day 06 - Your favorite Rachel/Finn moment
Day 07 - Your favorite Finn-Kurt moment
Day 08 - Your favorite Quinn/Puck moment
Day 09 - Your favorite Kurt-Mercedes moment
Day 10 - Your favorite Santana/Brittany moment
Day 11 - Your favorite Sue Sylvester moment
Day 12 - The couple you ship the MOST
Day 13 - A scene/moment that pissed you off
Day 14 - A scene/moment that made you cry
Day 15 - A scene/moment that made you happy
Day 16 - Your favorite episode
Day 17 - Your least favorite episode
Day 18 - Your least favorite character
Day 19 - Your least favorite performance
Day 20 - Your favorite quote
Day 21 - Your favorite guest-star
Day 22 - Your least favorite guest-star
Day 23 - The character you most relate to
Day 24 - The character you would like to hear/see more of
Day 25 - Something that happened you wish hadn’t
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had
Day 27 - Your idea for a future Glee episode
Day 28 - Your idea for a future Glee character
Day 29 - Your idea for a future Glee performance
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy


I actually really enjoy what we see of Finn and Rachel in that promo that I linked; super cute! You can practically see the hearts in their eyes, and Finn does his one and only dance move (we've seen it before, when he tried out for the Cheerios). But this is a really easy question, given that I spent most of season 1 and the beginning of season 2 gagging every time that Finn and Rachel were onscreen making goo-goo eyes at each other. They were sweet in "Rocky Horror Glee Show" (I liked Rachel reassuring Finn about his body), but they were my favorites ever in "Duets." I have a really hard time picking one moment from that episode. The fist-bump in the hall after they get Sam and Quinn together! The conversation where Rachel admits her selfishness and Finn just really loves Breadsticks! But then I realized I know exactly what my favorite is:



Favorite Rachel/Finn moment: attack-hug


(For the record, their faces on the runner-up moment slay me:



Also for the record, the gifs are by [livejournal.com profile] 100licks.)

I love their devious plotting and how enthusiastic about it they are! I love that Finn is the one to think of the idea and that Rachel thinks it's genius. The fact that she lunges and bowls him over just kills me every time. I've found, much to my surprise, that I actually really enjoy them sometimes. Mostly when ~*their drama*~ is not the entire focus of the show.



"This is completely unacceptable!" Rachel announces furiously, her voice rising above the rest, and for once, there are loud rumbles of agreement from the rest of the club. "Coach Sylvester can't keep Glee Club out of the homecoming parade! It's a vital part of my high school experience!!"

"Seriously, Mr. Schue," says Mercedes, sitting in the row behind Rachel. "This is messed up."

"I'm really sorry, you guys," Mr. Schuester says, his hands raised like he's trying to keep them from attacking him. "There's nothing we can do; Sue went to Principal Figgins and convinced him to institute a fee for each club or sport that wants to participate. We could afford to put together a float, but not do a float and pay the fee; we'd be eating our Sectionals travel budget if we tried."

Finn takes a hesitant glance around. Everyone looks really down; Tina is staring at Mr. Schue like he just killed her puppy or something. Her mouth set in the hard line that Finn had learned to fear back when they dated, Quinn is fanning Kurt with his own hat. Kurt never lets anyone touch his hats. This is serious.

"Hey," Finn mutters to Rachel out of the side of his mouth, as Mr. Schue keeps talking, "can you come with me after rehearsal?"

Rachel gives him a long, steady look, quietly questioning and hopeful, and she slowly nods.

* * *


The float just happens to be going past the street corner where most of the teachers have assembled when the Glee Club starts to clap-clap-stomp, clap-clap-stomp for the first time. Finn is up on the football team float, but he's more than close enough to see Sue Sylvester's shoulders tighten up and her head snap from one side to another, looking for the source of the noise.

Finn grins broadly, clap-clap-stomping along with Puck (who is doing it reluctantly, like he's too cool for this shit, but is half-smirking) and Sam and Artie (who's clap-clap-clapping) up on the football float, hearing others join in from the crowd and the Cheerios float just ahead.

Finn leans over and slaps the truck cab twice, the agreed-upon signal, and it comes to a stop; so do all of the floats up ahead.

It turns out Sue Sylvester has a whole lot of enemies within the ranks of the janitors and the lunch ladies, several of whom had volunteered to drive floats in the parade; Finn and Rachel only had to convince the driver of the first float and a few more throughout the line in order for this to work.

The crowd is murmuring; the entire football team, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, is staring, unfriendly. Then four voices ring out over it all, unnaturally amplified. He can't see them, but Finn knows that Quinn, Brittany, and Santana have all leaned in around Kurt's headset microphone up on the Cheerios float and are singing together.

"Buddy, you’re a boy make a big noise; playin’ in the street gonna be a big man some day. You got mud on yo’ face, you big disgrace; kickin’ your can all over the place."

Finn comes in on the chorus; so do Sam and Puck and Artie (as they lift Artie in his wheelchair down off the back of the truck), and the four Cheerios as they spring down to the pavement up ahead. Finn does not at all envy Quinn, Santana, Brittany, and Kurt the retaliation that this is going to earn from Sue, but for now, as he sings, "We will, we will, rock you" with all of his friends, it's hard to worry about it.

Mercedes, Tina, and Rachel shove out of the crowd together, singing along; Mike does three backflips in a row to bring himself into the group with them, to uncertain applause from the crowd. Rachel grabs Finn's hand, beaming; it kind of dazzles him a little when she smiles at him like that, like he needs sunglasses or something.

The crowd starts clapping and stomping along on the next, "We will, we will rock you," and that's when Finn knows: they've got this.

Sue is visibly shouting something on the sidewalk; Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury are standing beside her, Ms. P with her mouth open in shock and Mr. Schuester slowly starting to smile, obviously surprised. Sue makes a grab for her megaphone -- and then Coach Beiste steps in, holding up a copy of what Finn knows are the official district rules for the homecoming parade, and smiling coldly.

"Buddy, you’re a young man, hard man shoutin’ in the street; gonna take on the world some day. You got blood on yo’ face, you big disgrace..."

It's a super scary smile. Finn is glad the Beiste is on their side. Rachel had had the idea of appealing to her to have the New Directions perform as part of the Titans' float display to pump up the crowd, but they hadn't anticipated just how fast she would go for it, or that she'd look quite so satisfied as she defended them against Sue Sylvester.

Suddenly, tons of Cheerios start pouring off the packed float up ahead, falling into formation behind Kurt and Quinn and Santana and Brittany, and all of them, all at once, erupt into a complicated dance that Finn has a hard time even watching.

Rachel is shocked enough that she actually stops singing for a second; she never does that. "Sue can't single them out!" she shouts to Finn, as the song continues without them; Mike is doing front hand-springs, to the crowd's delight, and the Cheerios have begun racing around the floats, flipping and spinning and pom-pomming and motioning for more noise, more noise. "In order to discipline them, she'll have to admit that she was not a part of this wildly successful endeavor and that she lost control of her Cheerios to three sophomores!"

Even Finn knows which one of the four Cheerios got left out of that equation (Brittany). He doesn't worry about it, though; he just bellows the chorus again, with the full crowd shouting along, and he throws his arm around Rachel's shoulders and grins as she laughs.

As the final lines ring out, several voices shout, "GOOOO TITANS!" into Kurt's microphone. The New Directions whoop and the Cheerios high-kick and cheer, and the crowd roars. The cheerleaders start piling back onto their float (Santana is mock-fanning herself, looking very smug, and Kurt is grinning like a madman and hauling one of their tiniest flyers onto the Cheerios' truck), and Finn helps lift Artie back up onto the football float.

There is a long moment where the other players are all staring down at them off the back of the truck -- and finally Anthony offers Sam a hand, and then, all at once, the whole team is moving to help up Finn and Puck and even Mike and the girls.

Finn knows that they'll be really lucky if this temporary truce lasts even to the end of the parade route, but for now, he gets to stand on a truck made to look like a big scary lion, with his arm around his beaming girlfriend as they wave at adoring crowds, and for now, that's enough.




I am mad excited for Glee tonight, guys, you don't even know. I am going to spend so much time shouting at my television screen; IT'LL BE GREAT. (Note: this is not sarcasm, seriously!) I discovered this weekend that two of my college friends -- the two who I would have least expected it from -- are huge Glee fans; way more so than me. So we irritated the hell out of everyone else by loudly bitching about season 2 and belting along (very badly) with Glee-ified Journey in the car. For the millionth time since the show started, I regretted that it began airing after I left college. It is exactly the kind of show that 15 people would have piled on to my apartment's couch to laugh and cheer and groan and throw popcorn at. Instead, I have my mom. Who I love, but who does not understand when I get excited over things (rare, but it does happen; see: the Brittana moment in "Duets"). It's not the same.

And finally, love this gallery of disaster movie money shots from io9. I have a bizarre love for Roland Emmerich's awful disaster porn films (seriously, Independence Day is my "watch while sick" movie) and so this entire list delighted me to no end.

(I have seen, like ... every single one of these movies.)

[identity profile] svz-insanity.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I love plotting!Rachel and Finn. They are so adorable when they're busy being devious and smart and doing stuff ~for the benefit of the club~.

. It is exactly the kind of show that 15 people would have piled on to my apartment's couch to laugh and cheer and groan and throw popcorn at. Definitely. I watch Glee with a fellow fan at HKU, but I can't wait to go back to the States next semester and watch it with about 20 other people in my dorm room. :D Women liberal arts colleges. I think all the common rooms in all the dorms are always filled with girls watching Glee every Tuesday night.

Also, can I just say I love gymnast!Mike? I know Heather used to do gymnastics and was very good at it (there were some youtube videos from when she was in high school), and I think Harry could probably do some of it too. I hope they incorporate that on the show. But other than that... <3! I would love it if they covered another Queen song.

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, I need tonight's ep so badly! I need to see how they reconcile all this happy sweetness with the spoilers!

YOUR FIC IS SO CUTE. I love plotting Rachel and Finn.

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Also! Since Kurt's suggestion to save money on the band in the promo clip was very reasonable and not over the top at all, I am picturing the bullying stress driving him to doves and glitter as the episode goes on. But then by the confrontation, he'll be like, "And then I'll have a rocketship spell out your names in glittering red smoke!!!!!"

Re: Spoilers in this thread!

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
FLAIL. WTH. Maybe that particular spoiler happens later? Or maybe it's a case of Fox listing people who aren't actually there?

D:

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-24 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
ASHFKSFJSK SOB

Well, that was so much more heartbreaking than anything I predicted, if just because everyone was being so supportive of Kurt. EVEN SCHUE. WHAT ON EARTH.

Re: D:

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-24 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, unfortunately the aforementioned supportiveness came BEFORE the announcement, so I am worried that next week they're going to be all RAWR YOU BETRAYED US and I am not going to be able to take it. DD:

AHHHH THIS EPISODE. I AM SO FULL OF FEELINGS

Re: D:

[identity profile] ruffwriter.livejournal.com 2010-11-24 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
YES. D: Karofsky just STARING HIM DOWN at the beginning actually freaked me out more than a punch would have. I loved Schue for stepping in. I NEVER LOVE SCHUE.

I was surprised when the beatdown never came, but after Burt found out about the death threat I get that he wasn't willing to take chances. (Speaking of which, when he did find out, I seriously had a moment of "Oh my God, the wedding will never happen because Burt is going to commit murder in front of all these people D:")

ASHFKSK FEELINGS
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[personal profile] ceitfianna 2010-11-23 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to watch the scene that you wrote happen even though I've never watched Glee. That parade would be amazing.
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[personal profile] ceitfianna 2010-11-23 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
From the way you write about it, its absurdity seems to be part of the charm of Glee.
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[personal profile] ceitfianna 2010-11-23 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes a lot of sense. I've read some theater of the absurd things and they seem to either work really well or not. Its a hard balance to get right.