Originally Posted By friendofdd >>>I continue to be amazed at how this show manages to be so lowest-common-denominator and so incredibly well-crafted at the same time.<<< I agree, I57. It is consistantly enjoyable. I am grateful for the cardboard cutouts as characters because I can ignore the story lines and concentrate on the music. As I think about it, that is what I did when "Fame" was a series. Although those characters had more depth.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Tonight's episode was really good. I missed a few bits at the beginning, but I think I figured out the important stuff pretty quickly. I didn't realize that this was the season finale, but it seems like it wrapped it up well. There were a lot of really great moments throughout the show. I really liked getting to see the other side of several characters, and it did a good job of wrapping everything up for the season. I thought that Vocal Adrennaline's performance was well done, and a very interesting way to parallel that. It's definitely something that I would have never thought of, but extremely well done. They managed to wrap that part up pretty well, while still leaving lots of room for more to happen with it next season. I'm interested to see how the relationships change with the new developments, so I'll be looking forward to that when it starts up again (in the fall?). It looks like until then, they will be reshowing the first season on Thursdays, so that will be a nice change.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros And for what it's worth, they just announced on the local news that John Stamos will be on the show next season as Emma's dentist.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 If I hadn't already admired Olivia Newton-John and Josh Groban before this episode, seeing it would have changed my mind.
Originally Posted By friendofdd Olivia has been a favorite of mine since "I Honestly Love You". (about 1972?) And singing "To sir with love" was very moving. My college room-mate and best man was a HS vocal teacher for 45 years and he is fondly remembered by hundreds of former students that way. Just last week my second daughter, HS class of 1982, met her former teacher and some of the glee club members at dinner. They ask him to join them like that a couple times a year. The ending of the season was very sappy, but enjoyable.
Originally Posted By Labuda I was just struck by the fact that Quinn managed to go into labor at the start of Vocal Adrenaline's performance and by the end of it, her baby had been born and cleaned up. Oh, and that Idina Menzel realized when she met Rachel what she'd been missing out on but ended up adopting the baby Quinn just had. Suspension of disbelief anyone?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If this is the first time that they've done something that rediculous on this show, than I'm a little surprised. Given that they manage to learn and choreograph really difficult songs on a moment's notice, I have no problems with how quickly Idina made her decision. I know that the timing doesn't really match up with what was going on at regionals (since Mercedes and Puck were back in time for the announcement of the winners), but I took the birth/Bohemian Rhapsody montage/mashup as more of a parallel in theme and action than actual timing. But given how quickly the characters have really dramatic personality changes, I saw that as nothing out of character for the show.
Originally Posted By DlandJB Convenient. They can get rid of the baby and Idina at the same time. Her stunt casting is over and they want to move on from the baby story. I hope we actually get to meet Rachel's adopted dads next season.
Originally Posted By magic0214 Was I the only one who heard the great Song of the South refrence? "Your hair looks like a briar patch and any moment animated southern racist Disney characters will jump out and start singing about Goin Down the Bayou" GREAT STUFF I didn't really care for the Vocal Adrenaline performance...but then again I never liked the Jesse St. James character. He always was a "slow" part of the show for me. Loiked the Journey medley and quite happy about the John Stamos announcement...him and Emma should do a Full House theme song duet
Originally Posted By Labuda "Was I the only one who heard the great Song of the South refrence? " Nope - my brother even caught that reference! "I didn't really care for the Vocal Adrenaline performance...but then again I never liked the Jesse St. James character. He always was a "slow" part of the show for me." Yeah, he's no Freddie Mercury!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I can't imagine how such great music is helped by being filtered through this American Idol/Disney Channel style of singing/performance. Does music have to be stripped of all emotion to be enjoyable to today's audiences?
Originally Posted By Labuda It makes ME wish my choir in HS had been more of a glee club. We NEVER did songs that cool!
