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(some of) The Issues I Have With Glee
Nov. 12th, 2010 02:15 amI was such a big fan at the beginning. I'm behind anything that brings musicals back into popular awareness--it's a genre that tends to get ignored and its awesome. So I was like, "Sweet. A musicals TV show." when it started. And the music is great--auto-tune, schmauto-tune, if you ask me. It's fun listening. And I like shows that tout their allegiance to the underdogs of teen culture. There are groups of kids--overweight, queer, teens of color, minorities, geeks, what you will--that desperately need somewhere to look to on TV.
Unfortunately, this ain't it. It talked the good talk and then it failed to practice what it preached.
( I have a feeling this is gonna go long... )
Imma stop now because there's this vein on my temple that might explode.
I always end up shouting at Glee when I watch it. I shout at the TV most of the time but Glee MUCH MORE than the norm.
[P.S.--Just so you know, I DO believe that a show has an ideology not necessarily related to the ideology of its creators. I mean...a show is a sum of its parts, right? There's no one writer--not even the show runner--who can claim the entire span of opinions and positions a show has taken in its run. So the show has its own positions. And I'm talking about the SHOW in this entry. I have no idea who is responsible for the massive problems of this show. I just...it makes my soul cry. This show makes my soul cry.]
Unfortunately, this ain't it. It talked the good talk and then it failed to practice what it preached.
( I have a feeling this is gonna go long... )
Imma stop now because there's this vein on my temple that might explode.
I always end up shouting at Glee when I watch it. I shout at the TV most of the time but Glee MUCH MORE than the norm.
[P.S.--Just so you know, I DO believe that a show has an ideology not necessarily related to the ideology of its creators. I mean...a show is a sum of its parts, right? There's no one writer--not even the show runner--who can claim the entire span of opinions and positions a show has taken in its run. So the show has its own positions. And I'm talking about the SHOW in this entry. I have no idea who is responsible for the massive problems of this show. I just...it makes my soul cry. This show makes my soul cry.]
