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"Props" and "Nationals" briefly
My brain has been an absolute disaster area the past week or so. Still troubleshooting the problems, but things feel like they are slowly going in the right direction.
Anyway, caught up with both new episodes as of this morning, and pretty much loved both uncritically. Not that there weren't things to critique, they just left me in a happy place I don't wish to disturb too much, because Glee is -- at least in part -- to me about that happy place, opening yourself up to joy.
Best things for me were Tina, Puck, and Rachel (OMG, Rachel, you fierce, amazing, unstoppable human being, I cared about you again in a way I haven't for some time). And the Celine Dion covers. My father, who I nursed through his illness & who died of cancer last year was a big Celine Dion fan; "It's All Coming Back to Me" was his favorite Celine song, and "Because You Loved Me" is a song I once dedicated to him. I never got a chance to watch Glee with him, but I think he would have loved the show, too, so it felt like a little (accidental of course) personal homage type thing to me, somehow.
So a lot of my feelings about this episode are personal and hard to untangle. But, Glee did what it does best for me. I'm sure at some later point I'll be whining about Kurt not having his own moment to shine on the National's stage, but for now, I am just feeling good. I'm not going to speculate about the finale at this point, or talk about the troublesome bits. I just can't, because beneath the happy, there's the knowledge this is all ending very soon, and I just want to hang on to the happy right now. How did this show come to mean so much?
Anyway, caught up with both new episodes as of this morning, and pretty much loved both uncritically. Not that there weren't things to critique, they just left me in a happy place I don't wish to disturb too much, because Glee is -- at least in part -- to me about that happy place, opening yourself up to joy.
Best things for me were Tina, Puck, and Rachel (OMG, Rachel, you fierce, amazing, unstoppable human being, I cared about you again in a way I haven't for some time). And the Celine Dion covers. My father, who I nursed through his illness & who died of cancer last year was a big Celine Dion fan; "It's All Coming Back to Me" was his favorite Celine song, and "Because You Loved Me" is a song I once dedicated to him. I never got a chance to watch Glee with him, but I think he would have loved the show, too, so it felt like a little (accidental of course) personal homage type thing to me, somehow.
So a lot of my feelings about this episode are personal and hard to untangle. But, Glee did what it does best for me. I'm sure at some later point I'll be whining about Kurt not having his own moment to shine on the National's stage, but for now, I am just feeling good. I'm not going to speculate about the finale at this point, or talk about the troublesome bits. I just can't, because beneath the happy, there's the knowledge this is all ending very soon, and I just want to hang on to the happy right now. How did this show come to mean so much?