PhoncipleBone
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Got back from work at 11, so I have to wait until morning when this hits Hulu to catch it. Looks like the same problem next week as I am closing. Dammit.
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Glee Season 2 |OT| How Sue "C's" it (and many blindly hate it)
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Jamesfrom818
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Its hard to like Rachel when she's so fucking stupid. She and Finn deserve each other.
Hours Left
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Very promising start to the season, I like to see the dark undertones coming back.
It was OK. Not brilliant or fresh, but certainly not as subpar as most of Season 1's later nine. I'm still slightly optimistic that it'll be able to at least maintain passable level of quality for the duration of the season.
Sue continues to be golden and will probably deserve that Emmy again next year.
Sue continues to be golden and will probably deserve that Emmy again next year.
dead souls
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Good episode tonight. I'm glad to have the show back.
ryan-ts said:
Yeah, it is super frustrating. Some of the ridiculous things that Rachel says are wildly entertaining though :lol
And good for Beiste for creating the most sympathetic character on the show. I'm also interested on how they can get Sunshine and Sam back into the club ("they got my mom a condo and a green card!")
Also can't wait for
Sam and Kurt
Dead Prince
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eh. I don't think Sunshine is coming back. Gotta have more competition. It's like Disney's Camp Rock 2 :lolivysaur12 said:
I wonder how they'll get
sam and kurt
Telephone. Rachel and Sunshine in the bathroom. it was autotuned to where their voice was the same. quite annoying especially parts where rachel's voice just sounds like a nail on chalkboard.Ashhong said:
EDIT: just listening to the song online. god it was a terrible autoned song seriously :\
Dead Prince
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I can't see Kurt with Sam :\
and I can't help but to think Sam is like Sunshine from Remember the Titans.
and I can't help but to think Sam is like Sunshine from Remember the Titans.
Escape Goat
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Looks like John Stamos is going to get some songs in this season too. I didn't know he was a broadway performer. So apparently everyone is getting some kind of nemsis this season. It seems competition and rivalry are going to be themes. Finding out what you want and getting whats yours.
Rachel and Sunshine
Quinn and Santanna
Schuster and Stamos
Artie and Other Asian
Sue and The Beast
Rachel and Sunshine
Quinn and Santanna
Schuster and Stamos
Artie and Other Asian
Sue and The Beast
Dead Prince
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Finn and Sam
Escape Goat
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Maybe. Finn didn't really seem pissed that Sam had his old position. But it would make sense. Finn is threatened by Sam the same way Rachel is by Sunshine, they can do their "jobs" better than they can.
Dead Prince
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Finn is WAYYYY Too nice that's why he doesn't have that competitiveness like Rachel but maybe IF Sam joins Glee Mr. Shu will put him with every lead then he would feel like an outcast then he'll feel threatened.Teh Hamburglar said:
I guess we'll have to find out later.
and Brittany x Britney episode <3 i hope she has more awesome one liners :lol.
Escape Goat
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I keep hearing Brittany at random times "Stop the violence." The same way that Jersey Shore "Santa Claus is dead." pops into my head at times when I probably shouldn't be laughing.
great episode. good to have the show back. very very funny.
a) filipino girl is weirdly young/short/stumpy looking
b) thought she wasn't a good singer, then we get to rachael's solo and I prefered the new girls voice.
c) new coach is hilarious
d) finn + blondie in shower was pervvy
e) what other show is the vocal adr. coach from? He's very familar looking to me. I was like hmmm... Is he the guy from 30 rock?
f) telephone number was a total crack up. sue coming in to say shut up was fucking hilarious
a) filipino girl is weirdly young/short/stumpy looking
b) thought she wasn't a good singer, then we get to rachael's solo and I prefered the new girls voice.
c) new coach is hilarious
d) finn + blondie in shower was pervvy
e) what other show is the vocal adr. coach from? He's very familar looking to me. I was like hmmm... Is he the guy from 30 rock?
f) telephone number was a total crack up. sue coming in to say shut up was fucking hilarious
viciouskillersquirrel
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Shame the filipino girl didn't stay on at WMH. Her duking it out in singing battles with Rachel would've made for a nice dynamic, to be honest. Hopefully they bring her back.
Sue's lines are fantastic as always.
Also, what happened to Ken Tanaka?
No Emma makes me
Sue's lines are fantastic as always.
Also, what happened to Ken Tanaka?
No Emma makes me
Escape Goat
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viciouskillersquirrel said:Shame the filipino girl didn't stay on at WMH. Her duking it out in singing battles with Rachel would've made for a nice dynamic, to be honest. Hopefully they bring her back.
Sue's lines are fantastic as always.
Also, what happened to Ken Tanaka?
No Emma makes me
im thinking he didnt test very well with audiences so hes out. which is good cuz i hated seeing those shorts.
goldlion054
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DMPrince said:
:lol The beginning was great. My roommate was laughing at me for watching it. He saw the beginning and proceeded to sit down and watch it with me.
and wtf at
Vocal Adrenaline stealing the new girl, who isn't as great as Rachel, but still pretty good.
And next week will be AWESOME.
Larson Conway
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yep; seems to be setting up for a more storydriven season. Though quite disappointed about Q's character reset. Grew so much in the last season only to be back as Cheerios leader again wtfGunloc said:
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goldlion054 said:
She's ALOT better than Rachel.
goldlion054
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Equus Bellator Apex said:
You lying sonofabich. Rachel is like an angel descended to give us the gift of amazing vocals. And i love that she is a cold bitch who looks out for herself. she is gonna be a broadway star (which i think Lea Michele already is?). No need to let some frumpy bitch get in her way and take a solo or two, right?
PhoncipleBone
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Preliminary ratings so far, actual ratings should be out soon.
TV By the Numbers said:
Dead Prince
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I didn't hear any autotune with Listen. Maybe they just don't have a good ear (OR me HA).Ashhong said:
I'm okay with Autotune but that shit was nasty what they did with Rachel/Cherice. Make it sound like good autotune or don't.
anyways.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/178226/glee-audition
Episode is up ftw.
I am still unsure about Sunshine/Cherice especially her acting.
BJK
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ryan-ts said:
...and that's the problem with highlighting the use of auto-tune in the show open, then following it up with a song that lives and dies with the use of the technology. The original performers can't even sound like that when they do the song live, so while it should be excusable to do on the show, it just sounds bad here (iTunes sales notwithstanding).
-Brittany being lost in the sewers over the summer was a great line for how tremendously underplayed it was.
-The Santana storyline left me wondering if I need a season-to-season comparison shot, or if that uniform just doesn't do her justice. Seemed more like an excuse to reset the rivalry with Quinn (whose uniform does do her justice) than anything else.
-I also like that the School's 'inappropriate touching' doll is wearing a cheerio uniform. (I'd like it more if I didn't secretly expect them to be selling those online sometime soon.)
- Although the Artie plot was stupid, it did leave me wondering what the High School policies are regarding physical disabilities (a la Casey Martin and the PGA from a few years back)
- I actually thought Sunshine going to VA was a bit of good writing, since it wasn't what we all expected (new cast member = new glee club member)....and it solves the problem of VA losing their star performer to graduation.
- Speaking of which: Tall coach carrying a girl's hello kitty backpack - I :lol 'd
- The 'Coach Beiste' story just fell flat with me. The show presented her as a caricature originally, and then tried to back-fill with personality traits that ran contrary to what we had just seen. Moreover, it served to further emasculate Mr. Schu (you know, the man-whore)....who could really use a course-correction away from this sort of thing.
Was anyone else irked that the Glee club's solution to having their funding cut was to spend money on matching costumes to dance on the school steps? I normally overlook that sort of thing in the show (the costumes make it enjoyable) but it's rather hard to do so when the whole scene prior was hammering home how little money they have.
Dead Prince
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let's pretend it was from quinn's church funds. :lolSeth C said:
"Cheerios Try-Outs - No Fatties" :lol
EDIT: i think it's just a song sequence. since they all got gold chains. so while it appears they got a costume. it's just them singing in regular clothes? but i guess it throws the money thing out of sync.
goldlion054 said:
I think Charice has better overall pipes for the sort of songs she was singing. Lea probably has a more dynamic range though, due to the sheer amount of variety in the songs she's had to sing over the years on Broadway. Hell, I doubt Charice could sing Sondheim and make it at all pleasing to the ear. So they're different, but for the songs they were given and were shown in this episode, Charice was far more impressive.
Dead Prince
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when Sue comes in the bathroom to say "SHUT UP" still gets me :lol
PhoncipleBone
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Full ratings are in, and Glee won the night easily.
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Vinci said:
I think it would have been great if they broke into costume. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yThJQFMRtrg
but while was she smiling through the whole thing?!
StopMakingSense
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There's a difference between auto-tuning and deliberate post-processing, which Telephone was of the latter. Now you might not like the effect they were going for, but it's more than just "autotune"
DMPrince said:
You mean Sunshine? I actually liked that she was. The two had noticeably very different responses to that experience: Rachel was conflicted and anxious about a potential rival, while Sunshine was oblivious to this and was just having fun singing with her. Which is why I liked the character - to her, there was no rivalry, so she's completely unaware as to why Rachel responded the way she did.
I hope they play off that again some more in later episodes.
BJK
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StopMakingSense said:
It's one thing for the show to use autotune to make the performance sound like the original, but when the original involves heavy use of autotune as part of its post-processing, it shatters any hint of an illusion that the kids really sound like that.
(Which is what I was trying to say in my earlier post.)
It's just a bad song choice, particularly after calling attention to the use of autotune in the show open.
Shadowmancer
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BJK said:
All the song segments have never been meant to be viewed literally, but more as reality + dreamscape, ala lighting where there should be none, background music without any source, costume changes, etc. Some are more real than others, but most, if not all have had elements of fantasy mixed in.
This sequence I took to be how the two girls heard their favourite song in their own heads as they were singing out loud.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Wait... The Filipino girl is already famous? What gives? I've never heard of her.
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