<p>Tonight’s episode was really great. WHO KNEW Gwyneth Paltrow could sing and dance like that??? WOW!</p>
<p>I’m not much of a fan but had to tune in for Gwyneth and I really enjoyed it. She has been singing for quite some time - since Duets with Huey Lewis. Her dad directed that and there was a hit from it - Cruisin’. She also sung “Bette Davis Eyes” in the movie. She sings several songs in her upcoming movie - one is a duet with Tim McGraw written by her husband.</p>
<p>^^didn"t know she could dance too!!</p>
<p>And that she had such a great sense of comedy! She was fabulous. It was one of the best episodes ever.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed Gwyneth Paltrow’s performance tonight. I thought she did a great job and that the character was well written for her. The musical choices were a very good fit and showed her talent.</p>
<p>Loved the last two episodes! </p>
<p>Another “thumbs up” for Gwyneth Paltrow. I would like to see her character again and hope that the writers agree. Also, I think she would make a far better love interest for Shu than Emma, IMHO.</p>
<p>Loved, loved, loved this episode! Gwyneth Paltrow was amazing!</p>
<p>I enjoyed last night’s episode too, but it again was evidence of how totally absurd Glee is and how you have to suspend disbelief. What high school would allow its stage to be flooded with water, or even has the technology that would come close to letting that happen? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the number, but just thought it was over-the-top unrealistic. I’m having my own internal debate about whether I like this ridiculous absurdity or wish they’d dial it back a bit.</p>
<p>Agree Gwyneth was good, could not only act and sing, but dance too, brilliantly!</p>
<p>However, there were a few tired moments…Rachel again doing some ridiculous number that’s not relevant…like it must be in her contract that she does some number each show all her own regardless of whether it fits in with the show or not, getting tiresome</p>
<p>Also, just being picky, but is Blaine always going to wear that costumey jacket with the wide ribboned lapels everywhere he goes? We get it, he goes to an all boys’ prep school, drop the jacket, don’t need to see it everytime to associate him with an all boys school and showchoir.</p>
<p>fireandrain: You’re drawing the line at the water on the stage? The instant availability of complex and expensive costumes, the constant presence of full orchestras who know the music to everything, the elaborate lighting and sets that come from nowhere and are always perfect, the apparent ability of the teenagers to choreograph themselves in precise routines on an improvised basis . . . none of that strains credulity, but the wet stage does? How about the magical alternation of black and yellow umbrella-ella-ellas?</p>
<p>It’s Bollywood, not fourth-wall realism. I can’t imagine how one could enjoy the show without getting that.</p>
<p>I liked the Michele-Paltrow All That Jazz. Gwyneth Paltrow was on the show, for crying out loud! Of course they were going to come up with ways for her to perform with Michele and Morrison!</p>
<p>And Blaine: Blaine’s not an actual character yet, he’s a symbol. So he has to wear that ridiculous uniform. They’ll let him take it off when they give his character some dimension.</p>
<p>I rarely watch this show, but saw the last song. I kept trying to figure out how they kept the water on the stage, but then I noticed no one was getting wet. (I never noticed umbrellas changing color.) Was all of that computer animation? It looked amazingly real to me.</p>
<p>^^he just signed a contract for a permanent role next season…agree with JHS; he’s not fully developed yet; give it time…</p>
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<p>The cheerleaders wear their costumes 24/7, so Blaine will probably wear that all the time, too. </p>
<p>JHS: I <em>know</em> all that. That’s what I’m talking about. But yes, for some reason the wet stage (and dry dancers) might have gone over the top for me. Not sure why. The over-the-top absurdity is one of the charms of the show, I’m just wondering whether they’ll ever put the brakes on, or just keep escalating it. If you watch the earlier episodes from last year, the show was much more down-to-earth then.</p>
<p>I haven’t watched it until this fall and last night was definitely my favorite. I agree with JHS, you have to suspend reality watching the costumes and sets and just enjoy the show. If we’re looking for reality, high school doesn’t exist with 25-30 year old students!
I loved last night though!</p>
<p>If they can come up with all these fantastic sets, why can’t they make the singers lips move in synch with the songs? I guess some of us are too caught up in the real world, making us incapable of liking this show.</p>
<p>the show is good, but I think it’s good because it’s almost believable that this could be a real high school, just one that’s a little zaney…as soon as it starts looking like Broadway…the number with Mr. Shu and the student or with over the top numbers all the time, it starts losing some credibility. I think many of us still want to believe it’s a high school with a regular glee club that could possibly be our local high school.</p>
<p>Still LOL about Sue having a Nixon poster up in her office. That’s just perfect.</p>
<p>D1 and D2 complain about the caliber of the lip synching. I have old eyes and willing suspension of disbelief, so it doesn’t bother me.</p>
<p>OK, I read one person’s theory on a blog that these extravagant numbers are sort of what the glee club members wish they could do – their dream performance, what’s happening in their heads when they perform. I like that theory – I can accept that. I do have to laugh when half the show is about the club’s marginal budget and the other half has them doing lavish Broadway numbers.</p>
<p>I don’t care about the lip synching either. And the Nixon poster was a hoot. Reminded me of Alex Keaton.</p>
<p>I enjoyed Gwyneth Paltrow’s singing last week, too, and thought the “Forget You” song was pretty catchy. Never having heard of Cee-Lo, though, I decided to Google him the other day. Guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but apparently the title of the Cee-Lo song actually has a different F word in it. </p>
<p>Hey, I admit to using that word myself but not in the presence of kids. But Glee is a show that’s geared to kids. Sorry, I just think it’s wrong to glorify a song titled “F**k You” even if you do change the words to get it past the censors. I guess I’m just an old prude, but I remember when radio stations refused to play “Louie Louie”. Now I guess nothing is off limits. Watch the Cee-Lo video of the song – it’s full of preteens happily acting out the story while Cee-Lo sings. Ugh.</p>
<p>I LOVE the notion that the elaborate productions are what the kids are imagining as they are performing!! That is just perfect.</p>