Tonight’s episode of Glee brought back memories of High School and doing the Time Warp in people’s basements at parties:
I figured out what was wrong with Glee this season. Too many solos. Not enough choral numbers. It’s a Glee Club for goodness sake. Let them sing all at once. They can’t all be stars.
And this one had a plot that the music worked with rather than music that the plot had to find a way to work with.
The Glee season is over. I have to say that I didn’t like Part 2 of Season 1 as much as I loved Part 1. Too many overproduced songs, not enough character development. But I still enjoyed it and will be watching next year. I hope they have fewer musical numbers per episode so they have more time to get the lip synching right.
I don’t blog about law here but I will give you a link to a good post about something that I’ve thought about a lot during this Glee season: copyright issues. Check it out.
This week has been really busy and, on top of everything, I got sick. It feels like a cold but it could be allergies, they’ve been awful this year. But I did catch up on this week’s episode of Glee. School Board Member Brian Ryan asked the Glee Club members to take out a piece of paper and write down their dream. Wheel-chair bound Artie wrote down “Dancing”. Awwwww.
His fantasy was directed by Joss Whedon. And if you are going to star in a fantasy musical number in this day and age why WOULDN’T you want Joss Whedon to direct it? I love how Whedon filmed the scene like a flash mob in the mall and I wonder if the intercut shots of people in the mall watching used actors or real people who were watching the filming.
I was going to post video of it but Fox made them take it down off of youtube. So no free Glee publicity for them..
Frank J. Oteri at New Music Box, asks “Can Ordinary People Burst into Song?” Over the last six weeks he has been interviewing John Kander:
Kander's first blockbuster, Cabaret (1966), happened after the ascent of rock, but in that score and in his subsequent output he has remained firmly rooted in earlier traditions. It works because the plots of his shows typically take place in other eras and locales, so it doesn't seem in any way unnatural for the characters to sing in earlier styles. But it is in no way an artistic volte-face from the present. According to him, rather, a convincing musical theatre work or opera needs to be at some kind of geographical or generational remove from the audience because, as he correctly points out, "Ordinary people during their ordinary day do not suddenly burst into song."
Well, they do in Glee.
It returns. Finally. And they are moving it from Wednesdays to Tuesdays so I might actually get to see it in real time and not via hulu.
I know Glee is not for everyone. Some people don’t like musicals. Some people who like musicals don’t like the idea of using pop music in them. Some people don’t like comedies built on caricature. Some people don’t like comedies with fantasy sequences.
Last season I blogged about Dollhouse every week and I don't think I'm going to do that this season. But I will want to talk about it every week.
Last season I hardly watched any TV and what I did see was seldom in real time (I love hulu). That will probably be true this season too. But this week I did manage to catch a bunch of shows and many of them were in real time.