Ha! They must be DEEP and SYMBOLIC, this was more than just coincidence of set dressing & camera angles. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like this season Glee is (at least so far) more deliberately diving into symbolism and drawn out themes. The episodes feel less self-contained, like there's a greater narrative tension underlying stuff. It could just be me overthinking it though, as I do.
What I found most interesting was that I don't think a single character looked directly into a mirror.
I did not notice this, but you're right (from my memory, I still haven't brought myself to watch again). Even when Kurt is getting ready to go out, he's not looking himself in the eye, he's checking out his ass in those pants to make sure he got all the lint off his shirt.
So, perhaps there's an element of willful blindness being enforced? No one is looking, no one is contemplating, no one is seeing clearly? Like, Kurt and Blaine's conversation on the phone. They're using the same words, but they're not meaning the same things. Communication itself is an illusion.
And definitely the water and wet surfaces count if we're getting into the deep and symbolic. It could even be connected to the "everything changes" tag this episode got in the promos. We're changing worlds, essentially. Glee is transitioning and will never be the same; this episode is the pivot point. We're through the looking glass, or have we escaped the Matrix?
I was also thinking about mirrors that are not flat since you mentioned other reflective things. So they can cause distortion, magnification, minimization. Telescopes use mirrors to show us things that are otherwise not visible. Lighthouses use mirrors to magnify their warning light (Oh, Blaine).
I didn't notice the framing of that shot in the choir room. I will look for it. Ouchh. I was thinking about Blaine and maybe his starting to realize that he's not just hurting and potentially losing Kurt but Kurt's friends and family, too. He's too, too isolated. Ugh. I thought I'd be mad at him, but I'm mostly worried for him.
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What I found most interesting was that I don't think a single character looked directly into a mirror.
I did not notice this, but you're right (from my memory, I still haven't brought myself to watch again). Even when Kurt is getting ready to go out, he's not looking himself in the eye, he's checking
out his ass in those pantsto make sure he got all the lint off his shirt.So, perhaps there's an element of willful blindness being enforced? No one is looking, no one is contemplating, no one is seeing clearly? Like, Kurt and Blaine's conversation on the phone. They're using the same words, but they're not meaning the same things. Communication itself is an illusion.
And definitely the water and wet surfaces count if we're getting into the deep and symbolic. It could even be connected to the "everything changes" tag this episode got in the promos. We're changing worlds, essentially. Glee is transitioning and will never be the same; this episode is the pivot point. We're through the looking glass, or have we escaped the Matrix?
I was also thinking about mirrors that are not flat since you mentioned other reflective things. So they can cause distortion, magnification, minimization. Telescopes use mirrors to show us things that are otherwise not visible. Lighthouses use mirrors to magnify their warning light (Oh, Blaine).
I didn't notice the framing of that shot in the choir room. I will look for it. Ouchh. I was thinking about Blaine and maybe his starting to realize that he's not just hurting and potentially losing Kurt but Kurt's friends and family, too. He's too, too isolated. Ugh. I thought I'd be mad at him, but I'm mostly worried for him.