I wonder this too. This episode had a distinct visual texture and feel to it. Glimmery. The way the bar was lit too, not wet, but glimmery.
... teenage dream as stagnant...
I love it. I mean, yesterday I was bizarrely potentially connecting Santa Claus to Blaine's resolving his issues, so I'll happily embark on all tangents just to see what may be there. :) I think you're good though. I can't think of any other fountain symbols as well known as that.
I know we don't care about authorial intent very much, but they did go out and shoot that part in LA well after they'd done the NY bits, maybe even to add the fountain, not just for closeups. That is, it could be more than just a background use-it-'cause-it's-there thing. The Teenage Dream is a stagnation--no one actually wants to be an immortal child. Lovely as it is, it had to end one way or another. Blaine can't go back to that perfect place (although it sounds like he may be tempted to try). He and Kurt will likely need to rebuild from their foundations, go back to the start, but it has to be a reboot not a retread (that way lies Will Schuester's tragedy). It makes me think "It's Time" was for Blaine, too.
No, no, I'm predicting this'll be a good thing.
Ah! Then I shall adopt your optisism, because that would be really so very good for Blaine. It's been a worry that Britt keeps calling him Blaine Warbler; he still feels outside the group. But if they can forgive him, include him, & embrace him, then that will go a long way with ameliorating his feelings of terrible loneliness.
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I wonder this too. This episode had a distinct visual texture and feel to it. Glimmery. The way the bar was lit too, not wet, but glimmery.
... teenage dream as stagnant...
I love it. I mean, yesterday I was bizarrely potentially connecting Santa Claus to Blaine's resolving his issues, so I'll happily embark on all tangents just to see what may be there. :) I think you're good though. I can't think of any other fountain symbols as well known as that.
I know we don't care about authorial intent very much, but they did go out and shoot that part in LA well after they'd done the NY bits, maybe even to add the fountain, not just for closeups. That is, it could be more than just a background use-it-'cause-it's-there thing. The Teenage Dream is a stagnation--no one actually wants to be an immortal child. Lovely as it is, it had to end one way or another. Blaine can't go back to that perfect place (although it sounds like he may be tempted to try). He and Kurt will likely need to rebuild from their foundations, go back to the start, but it has to be a reboot not a retread (that way lies Will Schuester's tragedy). It makes me think "It's Time" was for Blaine, too.
No, no, I'm predicting this'll be a good thing.
Ah! Then I shall adopt your optisism, because that would be really so very good for Blaine. It's been a worry that Britt keeps calling him Blaine Warbler; he still feels outside the group. But if they can forgive him, include him, & embrace him, then that will go a long way with ameliorating his feelings of terrible loneliness.