Fandom: Sons of Anarchy and Glee
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escritoireazulI'm starting to think I'm allergic to my apartment building. Maybe the cleaning materials they use in the hallway? I would like to stop being sick any time now. So, from my sickbed (which looks a lot like my couch), television.
Sons of Anarchy "Gilead"
Gemma and Tara working together to get the boys out makes me smile.
OMG YAY Agent Stahl! There's still a chance she'll get taken out for putting Donna's death into motion. (And more dirty hot looks between her and Gemma!) And shut the goddamn hell up about Opie.
Children's choirs are really creepy.
Tristan helping Gemma with the holy water is terribly sweet.
Who didn't see the cop getting shot? Seriously.
Oh, Opie. "It's never a good time for me to be around my kids." You poor, poor guy.
Okay, Jax, what made you think this wouldn't land on you? You're the one pushing for change, pushing to make things right, whatever you think right is, and yet you're surprised that people are looking to you to heal the club? What exactly do you want, Jax? Jesus.
Tara and Gemma as a united front between "Porn Girl" and Opie's kids is hilarious.
Also, Gemma starting after Tara (or checking out her ass, whichever, both) is fantastic.
Clay and Stahl! CLAY AND STAHL! I'm still hoping Stahl gets the shit beat out of her (again, Otto's little beat down's not enough), but I love her cold manipulations. She's intelligent and cruel and fabulous.
Clay, trying to shake her by insinuating her father raped her, that's pretty weak.
I love when Clay fights people. And how fighting can look like clinging to each other. Violence and betrayal and Agent Stahl watches the mess she's created, just like usual. Not that she's created this mess, she's only manipulating what's already there, and that's actually what she does all the time. I really want her and Gemma to go at it.
Oh, Opie.
Jax and Stahl trying to manipulate each other is both fantastic and hilarious. Oh, damn, that was nice Jax. I love the little implied threat.
Gemma and Tara standing together while the guys come home is lovely. And the guys going one way and Jax the other - beautiful.
The preview for next week looks like it's going to be a lot of fun!
And now, Glee's one last chance to stop sucking.
"Vitamin D"
So of course it's the black girl who explains that the one school is for girls out of juvie and the kid in the wheelchair mocks the school for the deaf. I'm pretty sure Glee's one last chance is gone.
Okay, I kinda love that Sue keeps a journal.
Crap. I kinda love the guys singing "It's My Life" in their little leather jackets and jeans and Chucks. Though Finn does not have the strongest voice and I really wish they'd give his leads to someone else. Artie, maybe? Who is awesome. Though I wish someone would figure out wheelchair dancing. (Just one example here.) Dude. Okay, fun mashup.
I'm a little confused to how this competition works. If the guys win, does that mean the girls have to sing their mashup with them? Or that the guys alone will be doing the opening song? Or what?
Rachel telling Quinn that no one at Glee is going to judge her is pretty hilarious considering all the judging that goes on at Glee.
Mercedes is actually wearing a halter dress! Too often the Fat Girl wears a lot more clothes than the thinner girls around her (see the car wash episode for an example with Mercedes). And okay they all look super cute in their yellow.
(Secret: I adore Aly & AJ's cover of "Walking on Sunshine".)
Emma is the celebrity judge? Uh. Okay.
I love Principal Figgins calling Will on the competitive pressure he's putting on the glee kids, even though it, like everything else, flies right over his head. And even though making Sue the cosponsor doesn't actually change anything.
"Throwdown"
This really highlights the problems with featuring Finn and Rachel so much, both as singers and in the show itself. No, I don't mean Sue's Kids, I mean the fact that there are so many minorities we get nothing and next to nothing about.
Christ, I love when Mercedes sings. Also, don't the cheerleaders ever wear anything but their uniforms?
People keep saying that the show wants us to hate Will and that's why it's okay that he's so obnoxious/fails so much/whatever. I don't think I agree that the show wants us to hate him as much as he deserves to be hated.
Will flunks the Cheerios to get back at Sue. Will spends quite a lot of time treating students badly either to punish them or to get at someone else or to get what he wants, etc. Will is an asshole and keeps getting worse each episode.
Oh, stupid cheerleaders, of course. Of course the show does shit like that.
Finn is so much better when he's playing drums and not singing.
I do love the kids just playing around together. How fun! This is why I want to love the show, because it has teens being artistic and musical and having fun! And Puck playing the guitar! Good times.
The song Will gives them to sing is so boring. Basically I need the kids to choose all their own songs and do their own thing and let's just get rid of the adults completely.
I love Mercedes' "My dad's a dentist" in response to Sue's assumptions that the minority students are poor. I'd really like to see more of Mercedes, of course, but I'd also like to see class actually addressed in this show. Well, no. I'd like to see it addressed but this show obviously isn't going to address it well.
Why isn't there a wheelchair ramp? Why must Artie be carried out?
When Mercedes says "I don't like this minority business. I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." I think the show wants us to read that as she doesn't want to be treated as a stereotypical token minority (after Sue's statement about them being on welfare, etc.) but that's not actually what she said. (I'm linking below to a discussion about this.)
I really feel for Quinn, and I can see the Rachel/Quinn/Finn people keep talking about.
If "Keep Holding On" is a musical aside (as I have seen people read it), why is it taking place entirely on stage as a glee performance and not framed the way, say, Mercedes' "Bust Your Windows" which starts at the car wash and then goes onstage but still doesn't look like a glee performance. I really would prefer it to be a musical aside because then I can read it as Finn and Rachel reassuring Quinn, but it looks much more like another glee performance where the minorities are background characters as usual and really? We're still at this?
Glee links:
I really like what Zvi says here:
Okay, here's the problem with Glee. Every single week, I watch and I feel hoodwinked. Per the promo and the pilot, I really thought I was going to get what amounted to Revenge of the Nerds for a contemporary TV audience: a multicultural group of misfits takes on the social hierarchy and uses their misfit powers to destroy it. Although Rachel was the student featured most heavily in the pilot, I figured that we would rotate our way through a large ensemble, and that we would get plenty of time for Mercedes, Tina, Kurt, and Artie to tell their stories as completely as Rachel told hers.
Instead, every week I'm watching the shenanigans of a self-centered Spanish teacher and his unhealthy relationships with every woman he knows over the age of twenty, plus the quarterback and the head cheerleader, plus the "best" singer in Glee club. (And, seriously, it's actually really disheartening to me that everyone accepts her assertion that she's the best singer in Glee, since it's clear that Mercedes is Rachel's vocal equal, if not superior, and the ¿two? times we've heard Tina solo, her voice seemed like it might be as good, too. Quinn is not in Rachel's league, but she's the only female soloist we've heard so far who clearly is not. It's also really, er, bizarre to me that Finn was recruited as a saving male voice and has gotten 90% of the male solos, and he just doesn't have a professional quality voice. I mean, for an actor, he sings quite nicely, but he's theoretically playing a singer, and he really doesn't cut it.)
I also love what handyhunter says about Mercedes here:
So, there's a line in Glee that Mercedes says: "I don't like this minority business. I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." I initially interpreted/heard that as "I'm more than a token minority." But what she actually says is, "I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." A lot more than being a black woman. More than her race. Which is another way of saying acting more white, because that's what acting more than your race means. When was the last time white people had to transcend their whiteness, after all. It also probably says something that I had to think about this to see the wrongness in it.
Finally, I keep seeing previews for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and it looks like fun, but I'm always left thinking, Why isn't Darren a girl? By which I mean, of course the author of these books has every right to write about a boy, but where are the adventure stories about girls becoming vampires for the adventure and not for love? Or the movies based on these stories?
Sons of Anarchy "Gilead"
Gemma and Tara working together to get the boys out makes me smile.
OMG YAY Agent Stahl! There's still a chance she'll get taken out for putting Donna's death into motion. (And more dirty hot looks between her and Gemma!) And shut the goddamn hell up about Opie.
Children's choirs are really creepy.
Tristan helping Gemma with the holy water is terribly sweet.
Who didn't see the cop getting shot? Seriously.
Oh, Opie. "It's never a good time for me to be around my kids." You poor, poor guy.
Okay, Jax, what made you think this wouldn't land on you? You're the one pushing for change, pushing to make things right, whatever you think right is, and yet you're surprised that people are looking to you to heal the club? What exactly do you want, Jax? Jesus.
Tara and Gemma as a united front between "Porn Girl" and Opie's kids is hilarious.
Also, Gemma starting after Tara (or checking out her ass, whichever, both) is fantastic.
Clay and Stahl! CLAY AND STAHL! I'm still hoping Stahl gets the shit beat out of her (again, Otto's little beat down's not enough), but I love her cold manipulations. She's intelligent and cruel and fabulous.
Clay, trying to shake her by insinuating her father raped her, that's pretty weak.
I love when Clay fights people. And how fighting can look like clinging to each other. Violence and betrayal and Agent Stahl watches the mess she's created, just like usual. Not that she's created this mess, she's only manipulating what's already there, and that's actually what she does all the time. I really want her and Gemma to go at it.
Oh, Opie.
Jax and Stahl trying to manipulate each other is both fantastic and hilarious. Oh, damn, that was nice Jax. I love the little implied threat.
Gemma and Tara standing together while the guys come home is lovely. And the guys going one way and Jax the other - beautiful.
The preview for next week looks like it's going to be a lot of fun!
And now, Glee's one last chance to stop sucking.
"Vitamin D"
So of course it's the black girl who explains that the one school is for girls out of juvie and the kid in the wheelchair mocks the school for the deaf. I'm pretty sure Glee's one last chance is gone.
Okay, I kinda love that Sue keeps a journal.
Crap. I kinda love the guys singing "It's My Life" in their little leather jackets and jeans and Chucks. Though Finn does not have the strongest voice and I really wish they'd give his leads to someone else. Artie, maybe? Who is awesome. Though I wish someone would figure out wheelchair dancing. (Just one example here.) Dude. Okay, fun mashup.
I'm a little confused to how this competition works. If the guys win, does that mean the girls have to sing their mashup with them? Or that the guys alone will be doing the opening song? Or what?
Rachel telling Quinn that no one at Glee is going to judge her is pretty hilarious considering all the judging that goes on at Glee.
Mercedes is actually wearing a halter dress! Too often the Fat Girl wears a lot more clothes than the thinner girls around her (see the car wash episode for an example with Mercedes). And okay they all look super cute in their yellow.
(Secret: I adore Aly & AJ's cover of "Walking on Sunshine".)
Emma is the celebrity judge? Uh. Okay.
I love Principal Figgins calling Will on the competitive pressure he's putting on the glee kids, even though it, like everything else, flies right over his head. And even though making Sue the cosponsor doesn't actually change anything.
"Throwdown"
This really highlights the problems with featuring Finn and Rachel so much, both as singers and in the show itself. No, I don't mean Sue's Kids, I mean the fact that there are so many minorities we get nothing and next to nothing about.
Christ, I love when Mercedes sings. Also, don't the cheerleaders ever wear anything but their uniforms?
People keep saying that the show wants us to hate Will and that's why it's okay that he's so obnoxious/fails so much/whatever. I don't think I agree that the show wants us to hate him as much as he deserves to be hated.
Will flunks the Cheerios to get back at Sue. Will spends quite a lot of time treating students badly either to punish them or to get at someone else or to get what he wants, etc. Will is an asshole and keeps getting worse each episode.
Oh, stupid cheerleaders, of course. Of course the show does shit like that.
Finn is so much better when he's playing drums and not singing.
I do love the kids just playing around together. How fun! This is why I want to love the show, because it has teens being artistic and musical and having fun! And Puck playing the guitar! Good times.
The song Will gives them to sing is so boring. Basically I need the kids to choose all their own songs and do their own thing and let's just get rid of the adults completely.
I love Mercedes' "My dad's a dentist" in response to Sue's assumptions that the minority students are poor. I'd really like to see more of Mercedes, of course, but I'd also like to see class actually addressed in this show. Well, no. I'd like to see it addressed but this show obviously isn't going to address it well.
Why isn't there a wheelchair ramp? Why must Artie be carried out?
When Mercedes says "I don't like this minority business. I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." I think the show wants us to read that as she doesn't want to be treated as a stereotypical token minority (after Sue's statement about them being on welfare, etc.) but that's not actually what she said. (I'm linking below to a discussion about this.)
I really feel for Quinn, and I can see the Rachel/Quinn/Finn people keep talking about.
If "Keep Holding On" is a musical aside (as I have seen people read it), why is it taking place entirely on stage as a glee performance and not framed the way, say, Mercedes' "Bust Your Windows" which starts at the car wash and then goes onstage but still doesn't look like a glee performance. I really would prefer it to be a musical aside because then I can read it as Finn and Rachel reassuring Quinn, but it looks much more like another glee performance where the minorities are background characters as usual and really? We're still at this?
Glee links:
I really like what Zvi says here:
Okay, here's the problem with Glee. Every single week, I watch and I feel hoodwinked. Per the promo and the pilot, I really thought I was going to get what amounted to Revenge of the Nerds for a contemporary TV audience: a multicultural group of misfits takes on the social hierarchy and uses their misfit powers to destroy it. Although Rachel was the student featured most heavily in the pilot, I figured that we would rotate our way through a large ensemble, and that we would get plenty of time for Mercedes, Tina, Kurt, and Artie to tell their stories as completely as Rachel told hers.
Instead, every week I'm watching the shenanigans of a self-centered Spanish teacher and his unhealthy relationships with every woman he knows over the age of twenty, plus the quarterback and the head cheerleader, plus the "best" singer in Glee club. (And, seriously, it's actually really disheartening to me that everyone accepts her assertion that she's the best singer in Glee, since it's clear that Mercedes is Rachel's vocal equal, if not superior, and the ¿two? times we've heard Tina solo, her voice seemed like it might be as good, too. Quinn is not in Rachel's league, but she's the only female soloist we've heard so far who clearly is not. It's also really, er, bizarre to me that Finn was recruited as a saving male voice and has gotten 90% of the male solos, and he just doesn't have a professional quality voice. I mean, for an actor, he sings quite nicely, but he's theoretically playing a singer, and he really doesn't cut it.)
I also love what handyhunter says about Mercedes here:
So, there's a line in Glee that Mercedes says: "I don't like this minority business. I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." I initially interpreted/heard that as "I'm more than a token minority." But what she actually says is, "I may be a strong, proud black woman, but I'm a lot more than that." A lot more than being a black woman. More than her race. Which is another way of saying acting more white, because that's what acting more than your race means. When was the last time white people had to transcend their whiteness, after all. It also probably says something that I had to think about this to see the wrongness in it.
Finally, I keep seeing previews for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and it looks like fun, but I'm always left thinking, Why isn't Darren a girl? By which I mean, of course the author of these books has every right to write about a boy, but where are the adventure stories about girls becoming vampires for the adventure and not for love? Or the movies based on these stories?
