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"Really? Straight boys like sports, and gay guys like to moisturize their face?.."

Hey hey hey, nothing wrong with a little facial maintenance. Especially the white guys, the sun is MURDER on unprotected skin.

HI FIV...anyone? The guys know what I'm talkin' bout.

I have to say, I watched sat through the episode specifically for "A House is Not a Home". Though that's more because I have a very soft spot for the Luther Vandross version.

I'm also fiercely loyal to shows; the Very Special Eating Disorder storyline made me want to throw my TV at the wall, but I know I'll be watching next week. Because I cannot let go. My relationships with television shows are actually the exact opposite of my relationships with humans. I should look into that.

Repeating my earlier missive:

I liked Glee tonight -- right up until Finn invited Kurt's dad to sit in his father's old recliner, which was occupied by the urn containing Finn's dead father's ashes! *facepalm* I'm beginning to think there's one writer determined to undermine the entire enterprise....

I liked Kurt's Bacharach song, although Finn served as a spot-on straight guy audience surrogate (furtive glances around to make sure nobody sees me enjoying it).

The Bravo line was great, as was Sue notifying the state of Ohio that she would no longer be carrying ID because "people should know who I am." Heh.

I think my cat is reading my diary.

Yeah, Will's a little too warm and fuzzy to be believable, but... it's a TV show. Reality is not really TV's thing.

Sue is such a colossal bitch, but she's so damn funny, I can't not be delighted every time she's onscreen.

RE Ryan Murphy: this is the guy who came up with Nip/Tuck. I fully expect Glee to go off the rails at some point in a similar fashion. But until then, I continue to enjoy it.

dammitjanet - Your cat IS reading your diary, and what he reads is troubling. I think you two need to talk. Soon.

(LURVE Brittany, but only saw about 20 min of last night's ep)

Never interested to catch "Glee" but every female I know of goes head-over-heels over it.

Not this female. Great cast, but it's too cutesy for me. Plus, I'm not a fan of musicals.

I also thought of Nip/Tuck and I hope Glee doesn't go the same route.

The writing on this show is beginning to drive me to distraction. Things that have annoyed me in the last two episodes:

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE EPISODES, THOUGH WHY YOU'D BE READING THIS IF THAT'S THE CASE IS BEYOND ME, BUT IF ANYBODY BITCHES ME OUT I'LL HAVE TO RIP THEM A NEW ASSHOLE, SO SPOILER WARNING***

1) That whole thing with Artie and Tina last week, where Artie was demanding that Tina change her whole look and Tina bitched him out. That was COMPLETELY out of character for BOTH of those characters. Seriously.

2) I had completely forgotten that Finn's mom, Kurt's dad, and even Quinn Fabray existed. Please feel free to include these characters more regularly instead of just having them pop up for the sake of convenience.

3) The musical numbers last night were ....well, they just weren't that good. I mean, I loved Kurt's voice on that song, although it's an incredibly slow and long and boring song that is not *all that* recognizable, and then to repeat it AGAIN, well, just no. Also, while I love Mercedes and her rendition of "Beautiful" was lovely, it was rather dull, I thought. Why not do a *little* something with the arrangement?

4) While I'm at it, why are we doing this additional sub-plot with Kurt and Mercedes on the Cheerios? It's extraneous, distracting, AND half-assed, since there's not really enough time for it.

5) And speaking of characters acting out of character, I didn't really feel like Sue Sylvester was particularly consistent last night either.

I loved this show at the beginning, but it feels like it's all over the place now. What's happening with Puck? Why haven't we seen him shirtless lately? Will gets a divorce and Emma breaks up with Coach Whats-his-face, and we just never see those characters again? I'm left feeling disappointed each week, instead of thrilled. I don't like it. At least the Madonna episode had spectacular musical numbers, though. This one... bleh. Just bleh.

Oh, and one I forgot: The whole damn Kurt trying to seduce Finn thing. He already tried that. Finn is straight, Kurt knows it, we know it; why make him go through the motions AGAIN?

Slash AT SOME POINT?

Dude, can we be honest right now? This show has jumped the shark with a turquoise glitter sea-doo, only to turn back around and start getting the shark wasted on mojitos, fuzzy navels and shots of SoCo so that it can have it's showy way with that skanky shark. And that was before the mid-season return.

This show is beyond being reasonable and it doesn't even care any more. Need I remind you that, before November there were plot lines involving teen pregnancy, fake pregnancy, blackmailing, cheating, competition, back-stabbing, gossip, sex, music, coming out and a car wash. IN THREE MONTHS THEY JAMMED ALL THAT IN.

I kind of hope that the show gets kind of "wink wink" about it, but I don't even know any more. I mean, it's a sugar-charged twee fest that doesn't even pretend to understand what pacing is. They put three separate story lines in last episode that could have stood on their own as individual episodes. Everything about this show feels rushed. The B-Plots on this show are heavier than Sue Sylvester's backhand and the main plots are sometimes convoluted enough that they could last half a season.

Sue may be the best thing on that show, but I don't know how long she can carry the damn thing.

But as a sidenote, I thought what Kurt's dad said about Finn's mom was sweet. I mean, the fact that he said "love" made it feel like even the adults are in high school, but it still made me all verklempt.

Oh, forgot about the sand. Jezuss, they are getting some of the best lines of the kids lately!

Unfortunately, I agree with your assessment and the points that Anna brought up (really enjoyed that spoiler warning, too). I love, love, love this show but since it's come back it doesn't really seem to know what direction it wants to take, and last night was just boring and overwrought (if it's possible to be both). I did love the Bravo line, and pretty much anything that comes out of Brittany's mouth is gold.

On the plus side, I read last night that Santana and Brittany are being promoted to season regulars, meaning we get more of them which cannot ever be a bad thing.

So the characters are way too stereotypical... except Mr. Schuester, who is 'the least heterosexual man on TV'? Got it.

I like Glee, I still do after a not-so-impressive batch of new episodes but I can't be the only one that things that the writing is very inconsistent. It took many episodes and an out of character flashback to give the Artie/Tine subplot some follow up and I still don't know if Quinn is still living in Finn's house or if he kicked her out. Even Lost with all the misteries that it keeps adding in its final season manages to be more consistent in characterization and plot.

RE Kayanne: To repeat, it's a TV show. Just enjoy it for what it is (or not).

I agree they throw all kinds of storylines out there and that it's hard to care when they peter out abruptly, but like I said, that's Ryan Murphy's MO. It's why Nip/Tuck started out pretty delightful and then just went bugfuck crazy within a year. I didn't even watch the last year of it because it was just too unbelievable and worst of all, depressing. God, so depressing. I don't think Glee has gotten that bad yet, but others disagree... whatever.

I'll still watch. I still watch Lost and would continue to watch Heroes if NBC would put it on.

Sounds like Glee hasn't fixed the issues that caused me to stop watching in the first place. It was difficult to pull myself away, but you get over it.

I really wanted to like this show and watched the first four episodes but then wanted to kill them all. Tonally, it's a mess and they establish rules just to break them. Nothing wrong with that if you know you're breaking the rules, but I don't think Ryan Murphy knows that.

He's like a spoiled kid who's going to have it his way no matter what, structure and coherence be damned.

I didn't even make it past Mercedes' rendition of Beautiful. This episode was so after-school special. And what happened to pregnant girl? She's not looking or acting very pregnant, is she gonna pop soon? I feel like they've left a lot of loose strings from the fall and it is starting to bored.

Parenthood is worth a lot more of my time.

I liked Mercedes' version of "Beautiful." Yes, it was too predictable (ie, I knew it was coming up about 5 minutes before it did). Still liked it. She sang the shit out of it.

I too am curious about where knocked-up cheerleader is living. Maybe she secretly lives at the school. That'll be an upcoming episode, where someone finds her camping out in the boiler room.

I keep holding out hope that the plot issues are going to resolve themselves. Like if I just hang on for a few more episodes, they are going to get the real writers back from rehab and it is all going to get cleared up. I think that Quinn is living with Puck, but that is only a guess. I think that she is planning on keeping the baby now and Terry Scheuster is completely out of the picture.

With a cast this big, they can let some storylines ride for a couple of episodes. We shouldn't have to deal with Will's stupid love life every episode or Rachel's eventual betrayal and awesome plans of revenge. Remember at the beginning of the show when she was a scheming prima donna who got the old Glee teacher fired for giving her solo to the student he had a crush on. Come on Rachel-get your head back in the game!

But instead of letting each storyline play out, they rush them, then drop them and then sometimes pick them up again out of nowhere.

Meh, I've been an unapologetic Glee hater since that Beyonce episode. I started fast-forwarding through the songs halfway through last season, and do you know what was left? A really crappy high school show. The worst thing about Glee (other than the characters annoying habits of bursting into song) is that the male characters are such pansy-ass wusses.

I'm not sure if the latest episode was especially bad, or if it just brought the show's camouflaged flaws out into the open. The show is intentionally convoluted (the breathless "previously on" narration at the beginning of each episode celebrates that aspect of the show), but there comes a point where there is too much going on and it doesn't seem to be building to anything in particular. Character arcs are dropped and picked up again, seemingly at random, and until Quinn had a scene in this episode, I hadn't even noticed that she'd all but disappeared for several episodes.

On the other hand, it may have mostly been a poor episode. In addition to featuring predominantly melancholy songs (*yawn!*), it completely failed to advance ANY of the ongoing plot lines:

- Will's love life, specifically his imminent divorce and will-they/won't-they with Bush Baby Eyes.
He mentioned his divorce to April, and that was about it.

- Kurt and Mercedes joining the Cheerios, complicating the rivalry between the Cheerios and New Directions.
The subplot dwelt in this setting, but nothing changed (nor do I expect it to, despite Sue's compliments from the reporter). Will never once voiced any disapproval of the Cheerios in this episode.

- New Directions is preparing for Sectionals, and has been infiltrated by (probably) a spy/saboteur from a rival choir.
Oh noes! They had to find a new venue for rehearsals, which they never used (Seriously? No choreographed roller skating numbers with the choir?), and in the end they get to use the auditorium again just like always!

- Um, hello? Quinn's going to have a baby, which is kind of a big deal!
Nah, it just makes her a wise pregnant girl, convenient for spouting wisdom to help another character through her issues (which will never be heard from again).

Instead of dealing with any of these stories, they introduced an entirely new one, and now we'll get to forget all about Kurt and Finn's parents for a few weeks. Until that plot gets pulled out again so we can say, "oh yeah...that's going on."