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I don't want to see TV shows about real people! I live with real people, heck, I even am a real people, and overall the real people experience is pretty meh. I want fiction, fabulous engrossing fictiony fiction. And the whole "I'm a nice guy trapped in a relationship with a terrible woman because I'm too dumb to know better or too lazy to fix it" storyline is so tired. If he (the general he, used to describe all men and women portrayed in such storylines) is so nice and perfect, why did he chose to be with such an ugly person?
But yes, musical numbers. They suck me in EVERY TIME.
TPS I guess we want different things from the TV. To me most TV seems like stuff beamed in from a another planet I know nothing about. So called reality TV is the worst. Most fictional TV is just a bit less worse. I like a bit of fiction with recognizable people.
I like the concept and the idea, but I just don't connect with any of the characters. I'm not particularly interested or invested in them, and I don't care about them. This is weird, because my TV-watching experience is normally totally the opposite.
I love it and it's the only hour-long network scripted show I look forward to watching but alas, tonight's episode felt off. I hoped it was going to be the greatest collision of awesome what with my beloved Kristin Chenoweth guesting but it lacked something the first 3 eps had.
I'd watched the opening sequence to the show with the kicker boy dancing with his two best girlfriends and telling dad he was on the football team.
That was a great ending to that storyline and it make me laugh loud enough that my guy came out to my desk and asked what was up... just about a minute before the clip ended. I stopped it then and started it over.
We watched it again from the start and both laughed. After the past couple weeks, a hearty belly laugh for both of us was a great thing.
The football boys in pads dancing cracked me right up both times. Especially, right after the "I had sex with your mother" bit.
I have just a very few TV shows that I get attached to, though. Unfortunately, this probably won't be one for me. Great moment, though. I hope those actor kids do well.
Mrs. Beese loves, loves, loves Glee. I appreciate it for not being another stupid cop show or another stupid sitcom. And the songs are enjoyable. But the satire often leaves that rancid FOX aftertaste.
I should like it, and will probably watch it again if I happen to be home and in a TV mood when it comes on. . .but it's less than I hoped/less than the hype for me. I do love Jane Lynch, and you just know she is going to end up singing at some point. That should be hysterical.
The football boys in pads dancing cracked me right up both times.
But they were offsides! They were totally offsides!
Yeah, I'm watching, and liking it. There's a lot of willful suspension of disbelief, but that can be fun.
If he (the general he, used to describe all men and women portrayed in such storylines) is so nice and perfect, why did he chose to be with such an ugly person?
Happened to me, IRL. People change. Sometimes it takes a while to figure it out.
Count me in as another person who loves it more for the musical numbers than the characters just yet. They could be having a lot more fun with the the sort of very "every 90s cartoon/special episode/elementary school math textbook word problem ('If Jaime has 5 marbles, and Lu Chen has 4 and Bobby as 3...')" casting of lovable losers they have, but I feel like they haven't really taken advantage of that yet (I guess it's still early) and it still feels a little like the black girl, the Asian girl, the gay kid and the kid in a wheelchair are just cardboard cutout background supporting characters to the good-looking all-American love story leads they have going on (the whole pregnancy thing to make these plotlines acceptably more "fucked up" is a little forced to me). The show just hasn't lived up yet to the marketing around it that seemed to play up the fact that the stories were going to be about the "freaks and geeks" casting. Chenoweth's joke about kids looking like "the worst Bennetton ad" was the closest it got.
Regardless, I do like that the show itself isn't too cardboard cutout compared to everything else out there and the musical numbers are fun. I think the lip synching is a little rocky in some places, but whatever, it's a TV show. And seriously, Chenoweth was so awesome last night, it's not even funny. One of my favorite eps so far.