To be honest, I’m happy the holidays have brought a Glee respite, because watching this show at home, alone, feels like I’m watching it with an audience that includes all of America, because everyone obsesses about this damn show! And it’s not going to cool down for Feb. 8’s Valentine’s Day episode, hints Chris Colfer, who says “there might be a development” when Kurt and Darren Criss’ Blaine sing Robin Thicke’s “When I Get You Alone” (outside of a Gap store, ugh), and Blaine finally drops hints he’s harboring feelings for his protege.
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So Kurt + Blaine Might Finally Get It On For Valentine’s Day?
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alan brickman
Just more “Gay Tease” from the worst written show on TV…expoiting gay teenagers pain for profits…shame on Ryan Murphy!!..
Lefty
(post dammit!!)
Amazing gif!!!!
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@alan brickman: You pretty much echo Mark Incandelico’s comments about Kurt recently. He stated that Murphy simply exploits Kurts pain and how rarely Gay teens are portrayed as happy charachters. One of the most poignant, touching moments I ever viewed on the TVs was the next to last Ugly Betty where Mark’s charachter finally came out. At his Mothers wedding after watching all the happy couples slow dancing, he awkardly took his boyfriends hand and led him to the dance floor. The camera then panned to all the other charachters bursting with pride and joy as Justin and Austin embraced each other dancing with all the other couples……….
However, we are not talking Masterpiece Theatre here….View it as nothing more than a guilty pleasure that one can enjoy once a week. And sometimes Murphy gets it really, really right like with Kurt’s commin out to his hyper masculine Father……..The scene was perfect. After Kurt built up the courage, his Father replied “I knew since you were three and asked for sensible shoes for Christmas”. He then told him he loved him no matter what. The scene on the football field where Kurt was put in to kick the winning field goal and his Father whispering as he saw him on the field “He’s so little”, showing how concerned and proud he was of his son…………..
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ARRUUUGGHH……..C’mon Queerts I didn’t say p e n i s……..why the autoflag?????
Daez
The songs from Glee are simply amazing. Some of the of the numbers are truly works of art. However, that is where everything stops. This show is better off as a half hour of musical numbers with no storyline than with the storyline it currently has.
Also, the gay characters they decided to have are so stereotypically gay that most kids coming from a middle America family would rather go into “exgay therapy” than identify with them.
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@alan brickman:
You pretty much echo Mark Incandelico’s comments about Kurt recently. He stated that Murphy simply exploits Kurts pain and how rarely Gay teens are portrayed as happy charachters. One of the most poignant, touching moments I ever viewed on the TVs was the next to last Ugly Bety where Mark’s charachter finally came out. At his Mothers wedding after watching all the happy couples slow dancing, he awkardly took his boyfriends hand and led him to the dance floor. The camera then panned to all the other charachters bursting with pride and joy as Justin and Austin embraced each other dancing with all the other couplesâŠâŠâŠ.
However, we are not talking Masterpce Theatre hereâŠ.View it as nothing more than a guilty pleasure that one can enjoy once a week. And sometimes Murphy gets it really, really right like with Kurt’s commin out to his hyper masculine FatherâŠâŠ..The scene was perfect. After Kurt built up the courage, his Father replied “I knew since you were three and asked for sensible shoes for Christmas”. He then told him he loved him no matter what. The scene on the football field where Kurt was put in to kick the winning field goal and his Father whispering as he saw him on the field “He’s so little”, showing how concerned and proud he was of his sonâŠâŠâŠâŠ..
Franky
I really wonder why there’s so much hate for the Glee gay story. Kurt never received this much hate before. Why now? There are so few gay characters on TV at all, now there’s on one of the top watched shows in North America and people do nothing but complain. I really just don’t understand.
David Ehrenstein
@Franky: Why? Internalized Homophobia, that’s why.
DR
And here goes the set-up so that no matter what happens with the episode, it’s going to fail.
Melanie
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Spence
Have to hand it to Mr. Murphy, he’s created quite a fantasy while promoting gay stereotypes. Criss’ character’s attraction to Colfer’s character just would not happen in reality, even if Kurt were a likable character/guy. But then again, Kurt is Murphy in high school so it is his fantasy…
Brandon
@Melanie: Who do I have to give to to NOT have awful, cliched, badly acted shows like GLEE on TV?
jackieohboy
I love Kurt, even though his plot lines are way to heavy handed and border on after school special quality. However, Blaine could do way better cause he is smoking hot
Riker
@Spence: Not always true. I’m a (usually) pretty “masculine” gay man, and I often fall for the more effeminate guys. We do exist.
Daez
@Franky: It might have something to do with the stereotypical and borderline bigoted betrayal. Hitting every gay stereotype in one character does nothing to help make people believe that the stereotypes aren’t real.
Daez
@Melanie: Shows that portray gays as self obsessed radical drama queens? While I can see how GetEqual and it’s supporters would see that as good, mostly because they readily identify with it, I think I’ll pass.
Devon
This show is Twilight for gays. Kurt is Ryan Murphy’s Bella and Blaine is his perfectly perfect Edward Cullen with a pulse.
Teeson
Wow, most of you guys sound just like the stereotypical jaded bitchy queens that you bitch about. Glee is a fun, entertaining, FICTIONAL TV show. Why be hyper critical of a show that is just plain fun to watch? Especially a show that actually did a subplot about gay bullying in school and has a positive and supportive parent of an out gay teenager. Lighten up guys and just enjoy it for what it is.
Daez
@Devon: Honey, I hate to break it to you, but Twilight is Twilight for gays.
@Teeson: For two reasons:
1) Its totally unbelievable, but people will still believe it. It makes the gay experience look like a bed of roses, so those critics of the gay community can watch this and actually believe we have it easier than we do.
2) It paints gays, with every stereotype imaginable, as weak, feminine, self-obsessed, self-absorbed drama queens that could never stand up for themselves or have a thought that wasn’t about musical theater.
Samwise
@Riker: Make that two of us. If I’d gone to high school with Kurt, I would have been madly in love with him. Probably would have filled up at least three notebooks with godawful song lyrics about how wonderful and perfect he is and how he’d never go out with me but that’s okay because I just want him to be happy. *SIGH*
scott ny'er
@Riker: Rly? Ummm, hey Riker, how YOU doing? đ
Teeson
@Daez:
1. How does being pushed around and demeaned every episode make the gay experience look like a bed of roses?
2. Hmmmm, I think that you don’t watch Glee or else you would know that Curt does stand up for himself and is not weak. In fact he’s one of the strongest characters on the show.
Queer Supremacist
Glad to see my fellow gays are seeing that the autotuned emperor has no clothes.
I hate the living daylights out of this show, and Kurt is a considerable part of the reason. It isn’t even his flamboyancy that offends me, although it does irritate me. It’s the fact that he’s selfish, bitchy, manipulative, and egotistical. We don’t need a gay male version of Blair from The Facts of Life.
wat
Okay, I’ve never posted on anything about Glee, because I do believe everyone has their own opinion about the show, and that’s not wrong. But I think what a lot of people don’t take into account is that these are HIGH SCHOOL kids, in a GLEE club. Of course they’re going to be whiny and bitchy and manipulative. They’re TEENAGERS. It’s what teenagers do, because they’re not exactly the most mature people out there. And don’t get all, “Well not ALL teenagers are. I wasn’t!” Because that’s more than likely not true, although yes, there are a few exceptions to that, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the majority.
Another thing is that they are only showing one side of gays. You can’t fit everything into Kurt, or Blaine, or Karofsky. It’s just not possible. So yes, while there are other gay people who behave differently, there are also these kind. The ones that are in high school, performing songs theatrically. They will be a little flamboyant, and out-there, and they will be kind of stereotypical.
And not every gay person has had a fantastic life like some others have. These kids’ lives are supposed to be dramatic, because they’re young, and they themselves are dramatic, and in all honesty, because it is a television show.
saltydog
@Daez: I don’t think your critique is valid the gay experiences on Glee! are hardly a bed of roses. Unless you think being bullied and having to transfer schools to avoi threats is rosey. Also Kurt, Blaine and the closeted jock are all three very different characters.