<p>It wasn’t a jaw drop, but the entire show last night brought me pretty close to tears. </p>
<p>I love Kurt’s character, and the fact that he’s just a normal kid who almost didn’t make the show (He originally auditioned for Artie, and didn’t get the part, but they liked him so much that they wrote in a role for him) make it so much better. And I agree that the writers are just doing a fantastic job, and discovering a new middle ground for a parent’s reaction to their kid coming out. Most shows/movies, the parents are either completely supportive, or disown their kid. It’s clearly so tough for Kurt’s dad, but love overcomes all.</p>
<p>Didn’t like Defying Gravity, but mostly because of the way the arrangement was done, not because of any lack of talent. Also Idina Menzel holds a special place in my heart with that song, so I didn’t go into the show with high expectations for that song.</p>
<p>Hasn’t that ever happend to you in real life? You’ll see someone you know on a very limited basis - teacher, co-worker - out of the office and they’re out to lunch with their disabled sibling, or pushing their wheelchair bound mother around Target? It does happen, and it gives you a different perspective on the person.</p>
<p>…and robbed of my favorite phase in the whole darned show: “look to the Western sky…” Yeah, you don’t want to be hiding in my back seat when I’m singing along to that in the car…</p>
<p>AUtransfer: that’s why I have only seen Wicked once…noone, I repeat, noone can compare to Idina Menzel’s Defying gravity…other Wicked songs, maybe…but not that one…</p>
<p>I was Wicked twice this summer - on Broadway with my Ds and the touring company in Austin with Son. The Broadway Elphaba did a good job on the song but the woman in the touring company…hmmm…Son and I both said we were thrilled with the scene but were playing Idina Menzel’s version in our heads.</p>
<p>I’ve seen it three times – never on Broadway, always with the company in Chicago that stayed there for a while because of its popularity. It was a really good production, and while the song gives me chills almost every time I listen to it, the song in the show when they raise her up is…there are no words.</p>
<p>Sure, but not Sue C.! If she had had a disabled sister and was able to relate to her so lovingly, that experience would humanize Sue in her other walks of life. She wouldn’t be such a monster on her job, for instance. </p>
<p>I think it was a blatant attempt on the part of the writers to add a little pathos. Or a heaping mound of pathos. Didn’t work for me!</p>
<p>I find for every “true” note the show hits, there is a false note.</p>
<p>Maybe it was because of her experience with the HS Down’s girl trying out that she came to that visit all warm and fuzzy - maybe she wasn’t always that way. I think we will get more on this story/ Sue’s story in future episodes.</p>
<p>I’m a convert. Every bone in my body says I should hate this show, but I am falling in love with it. It is such a bizarre meld of fantasy and reality. </p>
<p>The whole pregnancy plot line – every part of it, from the wife’s fake pregnancy to Quinn’s lying and not telling her parents to her throwing bills on Finn’s lap – is irritating and absurd.</p>
<p>I was bummed at how Artie turned on the stuttering girl. That, like the Sue plot line, seemed a little off.</p>
<p>Other than Colbert/Stewart, news and sports (poker especially H and I don’t watch much TV but we got hooked on Glee. I love the mixture of pathos, comedy and absurdity, but wasn’t sure he was much of fan. But I’m away this week and when I reminded him to DVR it last night, he said he was going to watch it too! Luckily I did get to see it and really like hearing everyone’s reactions! (I fell for the Sue scene, while have to work to keep my cynical side at bay).</p>
<p>I loved the whole episode…Sue actually showing a human side, “Dancing with Myself”, “Proud Mary”, “Defying Gravity”, Kurt & his Dad, and no annoying guidance counselor!</p>
<p>I thought Atrie was totally overreacting until I wondered about how my son would feel if someone said she had what he has only to find out that she was lying. I asked him this morning (we both watched last night) and he said the reaction was pretty on the mark.</p>
<p>It’s too bad you didn’t see Stephanie J. Block. :)</p>
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<p>lurkness, </p>
<p>I agree. It’s so terribly inconsistent, which is a sign of very poor writing. One of my Ds saw a comment in another online community where someone asked “Do they have different writers for each episode and keep them quarantined from one another?” That pretty much sums it up.</p>
<p>How can Quinn live with herself? I know they were trying to evoke sympathy for her with the beastly parents, etc. but how can she keep up the charade??!!</p>
<p>I absolutely love this show! The music makes me happy! My husband said this has become his favorite show and I honestly would never have guessed that it would appeal to him. He’s really “angry” also that Quinn is not coming clean but he was glad that the beans got spilled…he shouted out “Finally”! Wonder just how angry Quinn’s parents would be to know who the real daddy is?!</p>
H and I don’t watch much TV but we got hooked on Glee. I love the mixture of pathos, comedy and absurdity, but wasn’t sure he was much of fan. But I’m away this week and when I reminded him to DVR it last night, he said he was going to watch it too! Luckily I did get to see it and really like hearing everyone’s reactions! (I fell for the Sue scene, while have to work to keep my cynical side at bay).</p>