You know what really
bugs me about Glee? (Apart from the obvious cheesy ridiculousness of the
30-somethings-playing-teens lives and occasional butchering of beloved songs)
Glee likes to tell the audience, ‘Hey, it’s OK to be weird or that unique,
outcast, nerdy kid’ but then turns around and becomes the most judgemental
wankers on the face of the planet.
Example:
The new directions (our protagonists) are at some show choir championship or whatever and they go up against their rivals Vocal adrenaline and some other random choir. Now Vocal adrenaline isn’t so much a show choir as it is whatever pop/youtube star is available to pretend they belong to the enemy high school and have masses of dreadfully choreographed dancers wave their arms around them. They’re sort of more like a cruise ship performance that’s kind of like The new directions and win pretty much every time.
Now the random choir in this three way battle is normally some genuinely unique and talented performers trying out new things and pushing the boundaries of music + art. This is all juxtaposing our protagonists, which are just milling around screaming out whatever chart music/equally remembered oldies in the exact same style as the original songs. The random choir normally gets shown as a snippet of a song rather than being allowed to fully perform any of the three song choices as the protagonist and rivals are allowed. This snippet of their performance is always followed with some remark about how freaking weird those guys were and what were they thinking. Sometimes it’s the judges that make this statement, sometimes it’s are weird, unique, geeky, outcast protagonists, sometimes it’s the voice over guy but usually a mixture of all three.
What shallow pricks.
Our protagonists are supposedly fighting the power to overcome bullying, injustice and a world that does not understand them. Then why are they themselves the bulling, unjust, failing to understand arses?
Example:
The new directions (our protagonists) are at some show choir championship or whatever and they go up against their rivals Vocal adrenaline and some other random choir. Now Vocal adrenaline isn’t so much a show choir as it is whatever pop/youtube star is available to pretend they belong to the enemy high school and have masses of dreadfully choreographed dancers wave their arms around them. They’re sort of more like a cruise ship performance that’s kind of like The new directions and win pretty much every time.
Now the random choir in this three way battle is normally some genuinely unique and talented performers trying out new things and pushing the boundaries of music + art. This is all juxtaposing our protagonists, which are just milling around screaming out whatever chart music/equally remembered oldies in the exact same style as the original songs. The random choir normally gets shown as a snippet of a song rather than being allowed to fully perform any of the three song choices as the protagonist and rivals are allowed. This snippet of their performance is always followed with some remark about how freaking weird those guys were and what were they thinking. Sometimes it’s the judges that make this statement, sometimes it’s are weird, unique, geeky, outcast protagonists, sometimes it’s the voice over guy but usually a mixture of all three.
What shallow pricks.
Our protagonists are supposedly fighting the power to overcome bullying, injustice and a world that does not understand them. Then why are they themselves the bulling, unjust, failing to understand arses?
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