The Gleeking out

I think I got my Gleeking out done elsewhere, on a messageboard for my WoW guild, actually. But I'll repost it here for Rebecca or anyone else interested.

This does contain some spoilery stuff from this week's episode.

In entirely random order, some thoughts!

Terri Schuster is a terrible person. I have never liked her nor had any pity for her. She comes clamoring back to Will and JESUS DAMN THE BABYTALKING JUST MURDER ME and is trying to re-interject herself into his life, and ends up seducing/taking advantage of him and calling herself his wife again. I'm with Ms. Holiday on this one, "Man, your wife is kind of a bitch."

Will Schuster is more often than not being a terrible person this season. He had my sympathy last season because his life went to fuck in an extremely fast way, but he's just kind of been a jerk this year. The whole RHPS thing with Emma was skeevy. It's almost like they can't figure out how to handle him now outside of the fake baby storyline because he's got some Jekyll & Hyde thing going on with flickers of Mr. Schu the nice, if sort of contrived for the plot guy coming out between Mr. Schu the inappropriately interjecting himself into the kids performances, being a terrible teacher, making terrible decisions and being a tool guy. Will Schuster has been such a terrible person that it almost ruined Matthew Morrison's abs for me. Almost.

Mercedes has always been a fairly flat secondary character, who seems to exist mostly as a foil to Rachel and a sidekick to Kurt. His little rant at her had both some tough love and some real harsh shit that went overboard. The Tots plotline was stupid in a show that exists on stereotypes and overblown plot devices. It was senseless. And I think tater tots are kind of gross. So the "You're replacing love with food!" thing was just a bizarre thing that they shoved in there in the stead of Mercedes' lack of self-confidence. It's more sensible and true to her character that she doesn't believe how a boy would be interested in her, and how she really kind of is using Kurt as a stand-in boyfriend still in a way (Remember that she straight up did that in S1, so I don't feel too bad for Kurt calling her out on this. And he's not just trying to give her some fabulous gay sass, he's trying to set her up with a cute guy too.)

Terri Schuster is a terrible person. I have no issues with the way that Mr. Schu stood his ground and made her leave. Good RIDDANCE.

Insensitive as it may have been, I found the Mary Todd Lincoln act to be freaking hilarious. I think it wasn't purely supposed to just be funny, it was supposed to be funny because Holly Holiday was back to her crazy old ways, and showing just how over the top ridiculous she was.

I found the Umbrella/Singing in the Rain mashup to be less bad after rewatching it. It might get some hum time, but it was a musically somewhat awkward number that tried really too hard to merge GOOD OLD FASHIONED SCHUSTER with the hip hop kiddies or something. Theatrically, though, I thought the performance was very cool visually and looked just fun as fuck to do. And I think I may have to be on Team Vests. I would have loved to see the girls dressed up in the newsboy slacks and vests sort of vibe, but that could just be my slightly odd personal preferences speaking. I would have found that hotter than the very nondescript catsuitpants under jackets.

How much I like an episode is indirectly proportional to how much Rachel/Terri time there is, so I liked this one less than others.

Anyway.
Anyone shipping Kurtofsky is advocating for something I disagree with, but hey, they're free to do so. I just don't dig on getting into relationships with people who abuse you!
As I said to a friend earlier too, I think there is guilt on both sides for people who want either Blaine or Karofsky to be Kurt's boyfriend based on what they find attractive, and then trying to also tie it all up in justifications about how it is more meaningful than the other option. I think the two options on the table play to two very different types -- the big muscly manchunk versus the pretty boy. I'd like to think that it's not just Blaine's adorability that makes me root for him, but rather that Kurt actually seems to like him, Blaine is not abusive, and they seem to get along well. But that's also probably me just being guilty of what I said up there. I'm totally down with the motives of anyone who wants to see Kurtofsky for the plotline of Karofsky getting help and being redeemed from being a bully and finding happiness, and the message that can send to closeted, self-loathing teens and adults even, but that can be accomplished without a romantic relationship with Kurt, who has even said Karofsky isn't his type. And hello, unhealthy.