geebs | (no subject)

Frickin' frick, its a torrential downpour outside, thank goodness I had an umbrella! As I walked to the Student Center BK, I felt really bad for this one blond snowflake cutie I passed who was umbrella-less and in a white dress. She at least I had a jacket to keep her decent, but I did feel guilty that she's obviously miserable and here I am, eyes drawn to her soaked white dress and it clung to her thighs. But hey, I'm a guy, I'm genetically predisposed to staring at such things.

What's up with people who stand like five feet behind the next person in line and confuse you on whether they actually are in line or not? I mean, is it they think they're too cool to be within three feet of the masses? Or they have some crowd phobia?! Get over it, you weird freak, I want a hamburger!

So getting back to Glee, two complaints I've been seeing on the forums are people disliking 1) the cast suddenly bursting into song in harmony despite never having practiced some new song together, and that 2) some of the sequences are "too music video-y". Or rather, instead of being a straight public performance, it kinda goes into the singer's head and the whole thing takes on imaginary elements. Which I think are kinda ridiculous complaints. I mean, of the things people are unwilling to suspend their disbelief on!

The first complaint, it would be kinda boring if we had to see them practice up to a song, or at least set the scene to indicate they got together and figured out how to sing the song together first. Its a musical show! Spontaneously bursting into song is par for the course. Like do they complain in the movies for Rent or Grease or Mamma Mia that people are just standing around and suddenly go into some well-choreographed song and dance number? Or is it they're expecting a "normal" show, and that sometimes we see the cast perform a number on the stage? (Or rather, what we see is what is actually happening?)

I guess the same reasoning might apply to people who have the second complaint as well. I mean, I didn't see any problem with the way they did "Take A Bow" (which they made kinda montage-y) or "Bust Your Windows" (where at the end, they indicate we were in Mercedes head for that whole dance sequence with the bikini cheerleaders), its typical of a TV/movie musical. I mean, TV gives you opportunities to do things you wouldn't be able to do on stage. Its basically the same as the rest of the stage going blank and focusing on the one performer, but since its TV they can do a lot more with it because they're not limited to the single set currently on the stage.