Re: General Glee Discussion Thread--Part 4

[Jellyrolls]

I don't have time to put the photo and quote here, but I just came across a TV guide slide show of the best crying faces, and Chris (and Lea) are in it:

http://www.tvguide.com/special/fall-preview/PhotoGallery/TV-Crying-Faces-1072073/1072080

I think it's old, but it made me giggle, so I figured I'd share.

[Buenos]

So it's official:

http://tvline.com/2013/10/17/glee-final-episode-rachel-finn-season-6-finale/

Glee cocreator Ryan Murphy has made it official: The show won’t go on beyond next season.

At a Paley Center event honoring FX Networks Wednesday night, Murphy confirmed that Season 6 will be Glee‘s last. He also revealed that Cory Monteith’s death has forced him to devise a completely different endgame.

“The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn’s story,” he told reporters. “I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was – he was in it. I knew what the last line was – she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.

“I have a good idea,” Murphy added. “I’m going to tell the studio and the network [in a week] how after Cory’s unfortunate passing we can end the show that I think is very satisfactory. And kind of in his honor, which I love.” (Reporting by Scott Huver)

[Glorfindel]

I don't have time to put the photo and quote here, but I just came across a TV guide slide show of the best crying faces, and Chris (and Lea) are in it:

http://www.tvguide.com/special/fall-preview/PhotoGallery/TV-Crying-Faces-1072073/1072080

I think it's old, but it made me giggle, so I figured I'd share.

Chris Colfer, Glee

Colfer's Kurt Hummel has long been the Fox musical drama's beating heart. As Kurt struggled to come out during Season 2, Colfer's quiet tears of desperation, fear and sadness were heart-wrenching. However, you can't talk about Colfer's cry face without mentioning his performance of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which Kurt performed right after his father suffered a heart attack. It left the choir room — and audiences everywhere — a blubbering mess.

Picture with the article:



Heh.

[Glorfindel]

dreakristina I created/updated our Costume Dept, Glee cast reference sheet! My Illustrator skills from college are coming in handy!

Notice the numbers missing..... 

[brisallie]

dreakristina I created/updated our Costume Dept, Glee cast reference sheet! My Illustrator skills from college are coming in handy!

Notice the numbers missing..... 

The first one who came to my mind is Cory but I guess the others are Mark,Dianna, Harry and do I'm missing someone? But what it takes me by surprise is seeing Amber among them, she's isn't a regular now.

[Ranwing]

Lauren, Sugar, Joe and Rory are also missing. So is Kurofsky, Azimo and JewFro.

[Jellyrolls]

They should replace number 16 with a bottle of hair gel.

[ColferInspired]

They should replace number 16 with a bottle of hair gel.

[Buenos]

I think all Glee now is reduced to a holding pattern until the series comes to an end.  I don't think RM really is even all that fixated in a dual narrative at this point, if he was he would graduate the Seniors ASAP in order to let the Newbies finally shine on their side of the narrative, the way he let Blam/Brittany do once he gutted the choir room at the end of S3.

Instead by maintaining BLAM as the main focus of New Directions and giving them the most songs and screen-time, (and so far this year increasing Artie focus), RM is actually deliberately slowing down the transition  of the Newbies as the  leads of McKinley.

It's a weird dynamics, he's simultaneously starving NY AND  not letting the Newbies take over their side of the narrative.  

So I figure the rest of this year is just shuffling shells to disguise the fact there is NO plan in place at all.  If the plan was truly to have Finn stay in Lima all season long then it was going to be (and will continue to be ) stand alone glee choir "fun" episodes .

Seriously , Gaga or Perry as artistic choices for the Noobs?  That would be an episode after graduation as opposed to yet another "fun filler" slowing down  bringing the school year to an end. No Nationals or Graduation in sight even after the first 6 episodes of this extended school year.  

FOX's  Reilly saying that NY was going to be taken to the next level is a joke, because RM is not interested in that at all.  He's interested in shirtless boys and random juke box musical numbers and he'll do whatever he can to have his fill of that.  If FOX is willing to indulge him they will simply maintain S4 MO.

[MoviesAreLife]

I am really happy for all of them but I wish for Kevin something more because he is just really really talented and so underused on the show.

This.

Kevin is such a gifted singer and dancer.  

Agree. And you know, even though her character is already unbearable and has been destroyed, I think I'd like to see Jenna also involved in something that's not related to Glee. From the group, shee seems to me like the one who gets less attention.

I really like Jenna. She is so sweet, and her singing voice is so lovely and beautiful...very warm and strong. And she can move well. That's two of the three "triple threat" skills right there. As for her acting....well....it's a hit and a miss. The only acting scene that she actually impressed me on was the vapo-rape/sexless relationship confession scene. I thought she acted that out well. Maybe she just needs the right script and direction to pull her acting talent out of her?

I love Kevin. He's so funny and goofy and very laid back. Great singer, dancer and not a bad actor either when it comes to the Artie angst. I wish him the best.

[bayth]

Saw this on tumblr and it's fun to listen to baby - all of Kurts' lines in group songs.

[Buenos]

THIS: Ryan Murphy please read the TIME magazine website.

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/18/glee-ends-next-season-heres-how-it-can-end-right/

By James Poniewozik

On Wednesday, Glee creator Ryan Murphy confirmed something that had been guessed at for a while–that Glee’s sixth season will be its last–and added something that was probably evident since last summer: that with the death of Cory Monteith and the writing off of Finn, the show’s ending will have to become a very different thing. As TV Line’s Michael Ausiello wrote, Murphy said:

The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn’s story. I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was – he was in it. I knew what the last line was – she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.

Six seasons seems enough for Glee–more than enough, probably. Like a lot of high-school serials, it’s been showing its age, trying to keep up with its original characters while cycling in fresh blood, some of the new characters so obviously similar to the first generation that last week’s tribute to Monteith/Finn joked about it, with principal-turned-janitor Figgins saying (in reference to second-gen character Bree), “New Santana Lopez is right, Old Santana Lopez.”

With the series’ ending, Murphy planned–again, as many such serials do–to return to its beginning. And Glee, from its “Don’t Stop Believin’” beginning centered on Rachel and Finn and their love story. The loss of Monteith and Finn took that away, and much of the show’s emotional core with it.

But it could also force Glee, after a long erratic journey, to ask itself: what, beyond all the bells and whistles and Beatles-tribute episodes, is this show still about? My answer: dreams, and what they cost you, and how they are not always recognizable when they come true. And since Glee can’t close on the story of Rachel and Finn, it would make sense to refocus on the platonic, but also important and complicated, story of Rachel and Kurt.

From the first season, Rachel, Kurt, and Finn were really the triangle that supported most of the show’s emotional themes. With Rachel and Kurt–deep friends as well as intense competitors–the show was about what it was like to be young, talented, ambitious, and scared; it’s no accident that much of the best material in season 4 went to New York with the two of them. Since their first-season rivalry (the “Defying Gravity” duel in “Wheels” is still one of the show’s most memorable moments) through NYADA, they’ve fought and made up, supported and pushed each other.

They’ve often gone off on separate tracks (now Kurt even has his own engaged-too-young storyline), but on some level they knew each other better than Finn and Blaine knew them. They’re each bitten by the same bug; they each know what it is to have dreams so potent you have to chase them even when it hurts.

Glee has an impossibly large number of storylines to service now, and it’s not like Ryan Murphy is going to listen to me anyway. But I’d love to see a season six that leaves McKinley High behind as much as possible and refocuses on Rachel and Kurt beginning their adult lives in New York.

Glee could do that and still have an ending that, as Murphy says, “honors” Finn. He, after all, is a person that both of them lost—a part of their youth, their hometown, their family—on the way to becoming whatever they’re going to be. But the show’s forced change of strategy could give it a chance to end not as another teenage love story but as a show about how the arts can change lives, and how the song sometimes outlasts the singer.

[coxfire]

THIS: Ryan Murphy please read the TIME magazine website.

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/18/glee-ends-next-season-heres-how-it-can-end-right/

By James Poniewozik

On Wednesday, Glee creator Ryan Murphy confirmed something that had been guessed at for a while–that Glee’s sixth season will be its last–and added something that was probably evident since last summer: that with the death of Cory Monteith and the writing off of Finn, the show’s ending will have to become a very different thing. As TV Line’s Michael Ausiello wrote, Murphy said:

The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn’s story. I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was – he was in it. I knew what the last line was – she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.

Six seasons seems enough for Glee–more than enough, probably. Like a lot of high-school serials, it’s been showing its age, trying to keep up with its original characters while cycling in fresh blood, some of the new characters so obviously similar to the first generation that last week’s tribute to Monteith/Finn joked about it, with principal-turned-janitor Figgins saying (in reference to second-gen character Bree), “New Santana Lopez is right, Old Santana Lopez.”

With the series’ ending, Murphy planned–again, as many such serials do–to return to its beginning. And Glee, from its “Don’t Stop Believin’” beginning centered on Rachel and Finn and their love story. The loss of Monteith and Finn took that away, and much of the show’s emotional core with it.

But it could also force Glee, after a long erratic journey, to ask itself: what, beyond all the bells and whistles and Beatles-tribute episodes, is this show still about? My answer: dreams, and what they cost you, and how they are not always recognizable when they come true. And since Glee can’t close on the story of Rachel and Finn, it would make sense to refocus on the platonic, but also important and complicated, story of Rachel and Kurt.

From the first season, Rachel, Kurt, and Finn were really the triangle that supported most of the show’s emotional themes. With Rachel and Kurt–deep friends as well as intense competitors–the show was about what it was like to be young, talented, ambitious, and scared; it’s no accident that much of the best material in season 4 went to New York with the two of them. Since their first-season rivalry (the “Defying Gravity” duel in “Wheels” is still one of the show’s most memorable moments) through NYADA, they’ve fought and made up, supported and pushed each other.

They’ve often gone off on separate tracks (now Kurt even has his own engaged-too-young storyline), but on some level they knew each other better than Finn and Blaine knew them. They’re each bitten by the same bug; they each know what it is to have dreams so potent you have to chase them even when it hurts.

Glee has an impossibly large number of storylines to service now, and it’s not like Ryan Murphy is going to listen to me anyway. But I’d love to see a season six that leaves McKinley High behind as much as possible and refocuses on Rachel and Kurt beginning their adult lives in New York.

Glee could do that and still have an ending that, as Murphy says, “honors” Finn. He, after all, is a person that both of them lost—a part of their youth, their hometown, their family—on the way to becoming whatever they’re going to be. But the show’s forced change of strategy could give it a chance to end not as another teenage love story but as a show about how the arts can change lives, and how the song sometimes outlasts the singer.

I'm an atheist but: Amen.

[Buenos]

some of the new characters so obviously similar to the first generation

Glee has an impossibly large number of storylines to service now, and it’s not like Ryan Murphy is going to listen to me anyway. But I’d love to see a season six that leaves McKinley High behind as much as possible and refocuses on Rachel and Kurt beginning their adult lives in New York.

What is amusing  is that this  Time Editorial by the critic with his measured observations in some hypothetical forums would be banned and deleted as too much "negativity".   Saying the Noobs are copies of the older characters results in howling and teeth gnashing by the ass lickers who cannot possibly see it.

[fantastica]

the editors sound like us. but we know this is murphy's show and he likes shirtless boys and so things will go his way, not ours.

[ColferInspired]

THIS: Ryan Murphy please read the TIME magazine website.

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/18/glee-ends-next-season-heres-how-it-can-end-right/

By James Poniewozik

On Wednesday, Glee creator Ryan Murphy confirmed something that had been guessed at for a while–that Glee’s sixth season will be its last–and added something that was probably evident since last summer: that with the death of Cory Monteith and the writing off of Finn, the show’s ending will have to become a very different thing. As TV Line’s Michael Ausiello wrote, Murphy said:

The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn’s story. I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was – he was in it. I knew what the last line was – she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.

Six seasons seems enough for Glee–more than enough, probably. Like a lot of high-school serials, it’s been showing its age, trying to keep up with its original characters while cycling in fresh blood, some of the new characters so obviously similar to the first generation that last week’s tribute to Monteith/Finn joked about it, with principal-turned-janitor Figgins saying (in reference to second-gen character Bree), “New Santana Lopez is right, Old Santana Lopez.”

With the series’ ending, Murphy planned–again, as many such serials do–to return to its beginning. And Glee, from its “Don’t Stop Believin’” beginning centered on Rachel and Finn and their love story. The loss of Monteith and Finn took that away, and much of the show’s emotional core with it.

But it could also force Glee, after a long erratic journey, to ask itself: what, beyond all the bells and whistles and Beatles-tribute episodes, is this show still about? My answer: dreams, and what they cost you, and how they are not always recognizable when they come true. And since Glee can’t close on the story of Rachel and Finn, it would make sense to refocus on the platonic, but also important and complicated, story of Rachel and Kurt.

From the first season, Rachel, Kurt, and Finn were really the triangle that supported most of the show’s emotional themes. With Rachel and Kurt–deep friends as well as intense competitors–the show was about what it was like to be young, talented, ambitious, and scared; it’s no accident that much of the best material in season 4 went to New York with the two of them. Since their first-season rivalry (the “Defying Gravity” duel in “Wheels” is still one of the show’s most memorable moments) through NYADA, they’ve fought and made up, supported and pushed each other.

They’ve often gone off on separate tracks (now Kurt even has his own engaged-too-young storyline), but on some level they knew each other better than Finn and Blaine knew them. They’re each bitten by the same bug; they each know what it is to have dreams so potent you have to chase them even when it hurts.

Glee has an impossibly large number of storylines to service now, and it’s not like Ryan Murphy is going to listen to me anyway. But I’d love to see a season six that leaves McKinley High behind as much as possible and refocuses on Rachel and Kurt beginning their adult lives in New York.

Glee could do that and still have an ending that, as Murphy says, “honors” Finn. He, after all, is a person that both of them lost—a part of their youth, their hometown, their family—on the way to becoming whatever they’re going to be. But the show’s forced change of strategy could give it a chance to end not as another teenage love story but as a show about how the arts can change lives, and how the song sometimes outlasts the singer.

I'm an atheist but: Amen.

This is the best article I have seen, and agree one hundred per cent.

[Buenos]

Wow...NBC is going to put up "The Voice" in X Factor's time slot on Thursday , Nov.  7, at 8 PM before Glee.  
NBC really has nothing beyond "The Voice" and TV shows it props up...somehow I think they are going to burn the show up with over exposure IMO.

[bayth]

Awww.    Mikes' show Welcome to the Family has been cancelled.

[brisallie]

Awww.    Mikes' show Welcome to the Family has been cancelled.

That's sad. How long was on air?

[ChrisColferFan1]

Awww.    Mikes' show Welcome to the Family has been cancelled.

That's sad. How long was on air?

No sure, but only a few episodes. Less than a full season.

[Jellyrolls]

That's too bad it got cancelled. It was OK, but not great. Maybe Burt can be redeemed and talk some sense into his kid.

[sheny]

[fantastica]

i bet it's that box scene isn't it?

[ChrisColferFan1]

i bet it's that box scene isn't it?

If is I won't be   watching. I do not care for  Klaine scenes. So ,if it is I won't be watching  for sure.

[fantastica]

they are so desperate for fan attention now. they know many fans are slipping away. glee is slipping faster than ever. klaine is one of their last straws.

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