Question About GLEE's "At The Ballet"
Question About GLEE's "At The Ballet"
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#2Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:23pm
Right?
Why did Rachel start singing Maggie's part of "that I was born to help their marriage and when"? Child, that wasn't your story. Your parents weren't even married.
Updated On: 4/27/13 at 02:23 PM
#2Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:26pm
That's where I was like "Da Fuk....?"
Even for a show as stupid as GLEE, that was a new stupid.
#6Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:29pmAnd why did they add another performer?
"Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. Have you guys heard about fidget spinners!?" ~Patti LuPone
#7Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:30pmThey need Kurt. Someone had to sing like a 10 year old girl.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#8Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:30pm
And if Rachel is going to take Maggie's money note, why have Santana do a weird harmony for it? Why not let her sing it alone? Why not flesh out a chord with Kurt on a note?
Updated On: 4/27/13 at 02:30 PM
#9Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:31pmAt this point the writers put their iPods on shuffle and write a script around whatever song pops up.
#10Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:32pm^ I presume that they had to add SJP, because they couldn't cut any of the three (even though Chris Colfer's wafer-thin autotuned falcetto is beyond irritating), because they couldn't justify either of the characters (mother always said I'd be very attractive or I was born to help their marriage) onto Rachel, Santana or Kurt.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#11Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:34pmSo, some man thought he was marrying beneath him by marrying Gloria Estefan? ... Gloria Estefan?!?
#12Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:44pm
I found it odd too that they did feel the need to include the full number, even the monologue (I think it was the full number--but I may have blacked out mid-way through) when Glee is infamous for editing down even 3 minute pop songs. Maybe they just needed 6 minutes of time to fill so decided to throw it in.
(Still, it didn't make me WTF as much as the random quickly thrown in child molestation side story this week. Oh Glee.)
#13Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:46pmOh don't even get me started on that. I mean that was so random and handled so...bizarrely it made me WTF and LOL at the same time.
#14Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:52pmIt was a very moving and beautiful moment (though maybe they could have integrated it with Sue's Little Girls performance?)
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#16Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:54pmRemember, guys, Glee is "too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting".
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#18Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:56pmAnd the whole "every girl, at one point, wants to be a ballerina". No, skank, I wanted to be a news anchor.
#19Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:58pmAs far as the "abuse" story line goes (and this is coming from someone who's seen firsthand what that can do to someone. Not me, someone in my family) it was almost insulting the way it was just "thrown in there" for no reason, just out of the blue to cause drama and to have that Kitty person be nice for one episode. But she'll be a bitch again next week forgetting everything that happened this week. And THAT is why I hate Ryan Murphy productions more than anything else.
#20Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 2:59pmAnd Wynbish, I'm pretty sure you wanted to be a ballerina. It said so on Glee.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
DustyC
Understudy Joined: 1/22/13
#22Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 3:02pmIs there a link to video out there? I want to pick it apart!
#23Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 3:03pmI still want to be with an Indian Chief. it's on my F*CKit List.
#24Question About GLEE's
Posted: 4/27/13 at 3:04pm
Without having my own Glee moment, I admit I'm pretty sensitive to sexual abuse stories and how they are handled in the media, particularly when it involves a male victim. I guess I should be happy this DIDN'T become the theme of the episode, which surely would have been an even bigger mess--but to just throw it in there (and you can bet Murphy or whoever was extremely pleased for being brave and showing the double standard if the abuser is a woman) just was... bizarre. And I didn't even understand it--whatshisname new guy (Riley? I don't know) basically said it, had the other guys in the class say he should be proud for being such a stud, he basically then brushed it off agreeing that he was, and we move on to bitchy girl using it to connect to him. And then it's gone. And as you said, I'm sure it will be forgotten--because Murphy paid his dues to the "issue" in a "brave and confrontational and honest" way.
As for ballet--OK I was usually the only guy in my dance classes as a kid--particularly ballet. But I never wore a tutu. I know Kurt is a special case, and the show purports to be entirely about being true to oneself--or something--but. Blah.
