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I slept for 13 hours last night. I forgot what not-being-tired feels like. THIS IS MAGICAL.
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
While I don't think that the show always makes the best use of its guest stars, I actually like most of them, as you can tell from that giant list that I made in yesterday's entry. So I had two options here: Molly Shannon as Brenda Castle, and Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran. Both are perfectly capable actress, from what I've seen of them in other roles, but on Glee ... blurgh.
Brenda Castle (A) only showed up once, was pointless, and then was never mentioned again, and (B) just wasn't funny. Seriously. It was just a retread of every tired Molly Shannon character, and given all the "SUE FINALLY GETS A RIVAL" promotion that went on ahead of the episode, it was just weird. Again: pointless.
But Shelby Corcoran was around for much longer and was thus vastly more irritating to me, so we have a winner!
Least favorite guest star: Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran
I seriously don't even want to write about her; so irritating. So, briefly, here is why I did not like Shelby Corcoran: she was shoehorned into the show (PAINFULLY, PAINFULLY SHOEHORNED), she was heinous but supposed to be sympathetic, she was not at all interesting, she did not deserve Beth.
Honestly, I'm just going to copy and paste what I said about the storyline in a few reaction posts last year.
Also pissed me off: the entire thing with Shelby. It took me some thought to put my finger on the cause of the bad taste it gave me, but I've got it now. The entire episode was like one giant advertisement for "you need a mother and a father." Finn and Kurt's parents moving in together sort of played into this, but it was especially true for Rachel. "My dads can't sew; clearly, since you are a woman, you are going to be able to" turned me right off. I could have read it as "you're in show biz; you must know how to sew" and cut some slack, but the line was "I need a mom right now." Because all moms sew. Obviously. They spent the entire episode not playing it as a girl wanting to get to know her roots, but as having two loving parents not being enough. Because they were both men, and Rachel needed a mother. There was no mention, ever, in the entire episode, of her dads being good parents or her being happy with them or anything like that. It was "I need a mom."
"I've chosen a Lady Gaga look that expresses the longing for a childhood I was deprived of." Seriously, Rachel Berry? You had a fucking childhood. It was with two parents who seem to love the hell out of you. Fuck off, writers.
All that fucking subterfuge to get Rachel to come to you, just to give up immediately? Really? Shelby went through all that effort to find Rachel and lure her in, and then in the space of one episode (really, one conversation), she's like "whoops, just kidding"? It felt so, so jarring and sudden; it was so clearly done the way it was done in order to write Idina Menzel off the show, since she was only a guest star. I wanted to see Rachel and Shelby meet, maybe have some awkward attempts at bonding, and ultimately decide that this isn't for them. I also extremely disliked the entire subtext that if you don't bond with a kid as a kid, by the time they're a teenager, it's too late. What, Glee? No. (And HOW WEIRD WAS IT that they sang "Poker Face" as a mother/daughter duet?)
(I have two friends who met a parent for the first time when they were teenagers. One still has a friendly, if distant relationship, with her biological mom; the other one and her dad decided that a relationship wasn't for them. Both were long, slow, careful, arduous, awkward processes, so to see the way it went down on the show made me go, ...what. really.)
Basically I thought the whole thing with Shelby was pointless and stupid, and I shook my head so hard at the unlikeliness of her being able to adopt Beth, and of how bad she is going to fuck up that poor child. I really, really hope Menzel isn't brought back this year.
Oh my God do I really have to write something about Shelby? Jesus wept. ZERO INSPIRATION. I am going to cheat and also make it wicked short. Bring on the rest of this meme, please.
Rachel is lying across her bed, face in the pillows, Patti LuPone's seminal recording of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" blaring out of her computer speakers on repeat. She had flopped down in this position (immediately after returning home from her first and final duet with her mother) primarily due to its inherent drama, but she has stayed like this for the last hour mostly because she doesn't have the energy to get up.
There's a gentle knock on the door. "Rachel?" asks Daddy's voice.
Rachel turns her head to the side and calls bravely, "You can come in," then hides her face in the pillows again.
The door opens. "Oh, baby," she hears Daddy say, and then the edge of the bed sinks under his weight. He gently cards his fingers through her hair, and she feels him swing his feet up. "What's the matter?"
She peers toward him. He's stretched out beside her with his head on his elbow, looking down at her in concern. He's still wearing his suit and tie from work; he must have walked in the door and come right upstairs to see how her day went. "Shelby thought it would be best if we -- if we didn't have any further contact," Rachel says, and Daddy stares at her.
"Seriously?" he asks. "After she went to all that trouble to contact you?" His face pulls into a frown, the likes of which Rachel has never seen. "What is the matter with that woman?!" He sits up and starts to slide out of her bed, doubtless to put in an angry phone call.
Rachel grabs his arm to stop him. "Your indignation on my behalf is comforting," she tells him, "but you don't have to do anything. I'm okay." She tries a smile. Judging by Daddy's face, it's not an entirely successful dramatic endeavor.
"They are not the solutions they promised to be; the answer was here all the time," sings Patti.
"Are you really, pumpkin?" Daddy asks gently, tucking her hair behind her ear.
Rachel thinks about it; she really does. And then she smiles, watery and small but genuine, and she says, "Yes," and she sits up all at once so she can hug him. "It was a nice idea," she whispers against his shoulder, safely wrapped up in his arms, "but I don't need a mother. I have you and Dad."
Daddy squeezes her tight and tells her that they love her, and then he coaxes her downstairs to make star-shaped sugar cookies. By the time Dad comes home and wraps her up in a second hug, Rachel has a glass of water and has decided that it won't diminish the impact of her personal tragedy if she smiles now and again.
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
While I don't think that the show always makes the best use of its guest stars, I actually like most of them, as you can tell from that giant list that I made in yesterday's entry. So I had two options here: Molly Shannon as Brenda Castle, and Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran. Both are perfectly capable actress, from what I've seen of them in other roles, but on Glee ... blurgh.
Brenda Castle (A) only showed up once, was pointless, and then was never mentioned again, and (B) just wasn't funny. Seriously. It was just a retread of every tired Molly Shannon character, and given all the "SUE FINALLY GETS A RIVAL" promotion that went on ahead of the episode, it was just weird. Again: pointless.
But Shelby Corcoran was around for much longer and was thus vastly more irritating to me, so we have a winner!
Least favorite guest star: Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran
I seriously don't even want to write about her; so irritating. So, briefly, here is why I did not like Shelby Corcoran: she was shoehorned into the show (PAINFULLY, PAINFULLY SHOEHORNED), she was heinous but supposed to be sympathetic, she was not at all interesting, she did not deserve Beth.
Honestly, I'm just going to copy and paste what I said about the storyline in a few reaction posts last year.
Also pissed me off: the entire thing with Shelby. It took me some thought to put my finger on the cause of the bad taste it gave me, but I've got it now. The entire episode was like one giant advertisement for "you need a mother and a father." Finn and Kurt's parents moving in together sort of played into this, but it was especially true for Rachel. "My dads can't sew; clearly, since you are a woman, you are going to be able to" turned me right off. I could have read it as "you're in show biz; you must know how to sew" and cut some slack, but the line was "I need a mom right now." Because all moms sew. Obviously. They spent the entire episode not playing it as a girl wanting to get to know her roots, but as having two loving parents not being enough. Because they were both men, and Rachel needed a mother. There was no mention, ever, in the entire episode, of her dads being good parents or her being happy with them or anything like that. It was "I need a mom."
"I've chosen a Lady Gaga look that expresses the longing for a childhood I was deprived of." Seriously, Rachel Berry? You had a fucking childhood. It was with two parents who seem to love the hell out of you. Fuck off, writers.
All that fucking subterfuge to get Rachel to come to you, just to give up immediately? Really? Shelby went through all that effort to find Rachel and lure her in, and then in the space of one episode (really, one conversation), she's like "whoops, just kidding"? It felt so, so jarring and sudden; it was so clearly done the way it was done in order to write Idina Menzel off the show, since she was only a guest star. I wanted to see Rachel and Shelby meet, maybe have some awkward attempts at bonding, and ultimately decide that this isn't for them. I also extremely disliked the entire subtext that if you don't bond with a kid as a kid, by the time they're a teenager, it's too late. What, Glee? No. (And HOW WEIRD WAS IT that they sang "Poker Face" as a mother/daughter duet?)
(I have two friends who met a parent for the first time when they were teenagers. One still has a friendly, if distant relationship, with her biological mom; the other one and her dad decided that a relationship wasn't for them. Both were long, slow, careful, arduous, awkward processes, so to see the way it went down on the show made me go, ...what. really.)
Basically I thought the whole thing with Shelby was pointless and stupid, and I shook my head so hard at the unlikeliness of her being able to adopt Beth, and of how bad she is going to fuck up that poor child. I really, really hope Menzel isn't brought back this year.
Oh my God do I really have to write something about Shelby? Jesus wept. ZERO INSPIRATION. I am going to cheat and also make it wicked short. Bring on the rest of this meme, please.
Rachel is lying across her bed, face in the pillows, Patti LuPone's seminal recording of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" blaring out of her computer speakers on repeat. She had flopped down in this position (immediately after returning home from her first and final duet with her mother) primarily due to its inherent drama, but she has stayed like this for the last hour mostly because she doesn't have the energy to get up.
There's a gentle knock on the door. "Rachel?" asks Daddy's voice.
Rachel turns her head to the side and calls bravely, "You can come in," then hides her face in the pillows again.
The door opens. "Oh, baby," she hears Daddy say, and then the edge of the bed sinks under his weight. He gently cards his fingers through her hair, and she feels him swing his feet up. "What's the matter?"
She peers toward him. He's stretched out beside her with his head on his elbow, looking down at her in concern. He's still wearing his suit and tie from work; he must have walked in the door and come right upstairs to see how her day went. "Shelby thought it would be best if we -- if we didn't have any further contact," Rachel says, and Daddy stares at her.
"Seriously?" he asks. "After she went to all that trouble to contact you?" His face pulls into a frown, the likes of which Rachel has never seen. "What is the matter with that woman?!" He sits up and starts to slide out of her bed, doubtless to put in an angry phone call.
Rachel grabs his arm to stop him. "Your indignation on my behalf is comforting," she tells him, "but you don't have to do anything. I'm okay." She tries a smile. Judging by Daddy's face, it's not an entirely successful dramatic endeavor.
"They are not the solutions they promised to be; the answer was here all the time," sings Patti.
"Are you really, pumpkin?" Daddy asks gently, tucking her hair behind her ear.
Rachel thinks about it; she really does. And then she smiles, watery and small but genuine, and she says, "Yes," and she sits up all at once so she can hug him. "It was a nice idea," she whispers against his shoulder, safely wrapped up in his arms, "but I don't need a mother. I have you and Dad."
Daddy squeezes her tight and tells her that they love her, and then he coaxes her downstairs to make star-shaped sugar cookies. By the time Dad comes home and wraps her up in a second hug, Rachel has a glass of water and has decided that it won't diminish the impact of her personal tragedy if she smiles now and again.
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Also, o_o confetti. -stares-
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The gay dads on this season of Skins are the greatest people ever. MORE GAY DADS PLZ.
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Franky, you have my heart easily. You're amazing. You're beautiful. You have two gay dads who actually get screen time--TAKE NOTES, RYAN MURPHY.
♥
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I will never understand what they did with the Gaga duet, though. I mean...honestly. Sometimes, this show succeeds with changing the context of a song--i.e. "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is not about a father and son, and "Losing My Religion" is not about atheism. However, in the context they used them in, both songs worked for me as far as being willing to go with the new meaning the show was applying to them--particularly IWHYH. The Gaga duet, though? I'm sorry, but on no planet does, 'bluffin' with my muffin' ever translate to a mother/daughter song unless perhaps it is Shelby using the term of endearment "muffin" and referring to the subterfuge and lying that has gone on through the years--i.e. "scheming to get to Rachel" = "bluffin' with my muffin" and even then, we're stretching things quite a bit. *facepalm*
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Dude, you even see the gay dads of a side character in No Strings Attached, BRING ON THE GAY FATHER FIGURES RYAN MURPHY.
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I love Franky even though I thought Minnie's progression was super condensed and awkward. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. As mystery guy said!
*gives Lexie her LJ back now*