All right.
I watch "Glee."
It might be the gayest thing I do.
I actually enjoy the show for the most part. There are moments when I cringe*, but they don't outweigh the good.
*Any of the musical numbers that are fantasy sequences within individual characters' heads, thus breaking with reality: the thing I hate most about musicals in general.
With that out of the way, the pregnancy ruse that Terri was pulling on Will definitely had to end. It was intriguing for a while, but it had gone about six episodes too long. I guess there are bound to be some growing pains when you get an Executive Producer used to 13 episode seasons having to stretch his feet out on network full-season television, but Ryan Murphy need not worry, he is not going to be compared to Kevin Williamson* or "Degrassi" when it comes to burning through narrative arcs.
*Maybe my memory is doing me a disservice, but it really seemed to me that stories that should have taken months to play out on "Dawson's Creek" ended up being resolved in two or three episodes. With reasonable narrative pacing, I probably would have kept watching that show past its first season. OK, probably not. Its "Buffy" lead-in was the reason I watched in the first place, I never had a thing for Katie Holmes or Michelle Williams, and its dialogue was laughably inappropriate for the age-group being portrayed. "Dawson's Creek" was never really going to be a show that I could have stuck with...
But this faking of a pregnancy and the awful sister-in-law scenes was killing all momentum every fifteen minutes or so.
It had to end.
Now I get that Will and Jayma need to be kept apart to leave viewers wanting for something to happen. The sexual tension between the two is one of the most compelling aspects of the show--that, and the roughly tri-weekly transcendent full-group routines, starting with the outstanding "Don't Stop Believin'" number in the outstanding premiere--so keeping them lusting after one another with no release is vital to the overall chemistry of the show.
That doesn't mean the Will/Terri pregnancy drama needed to go on this long. It was excruciating, but I guess I've now gotten just a bit more of the good ol' catharsis from it, so there is that.
Thank God that's over.
I can now look forward to the season-long story arcs moving forward.
Here's a gift...
You're welcome.
2 comments:
Glad to hear that you watch Glee. It kinda reminds at times of Buffy just without the whole vampire slayer aspect
I'm a fan. I wish the musical numbers were edited a bit differently so it made it somewhat believable that they were singing them in the scenes (I know they're actually singing them, but it's blatantly obvious that they're singing it in a sound studio).
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