Breaking up with a show

[author_by_night]

I think I'm losing interest in Glee.

It's sad because when I first started watching Glee, I loved it. I didn't expect to, but I found myself very impressed, as silly as the show could be.

Now it's basically... meh.

I can't really care about the characters anymore, for one thing. The only ones I really care about are Kurt and Beiste, who I almost wish would get together with Will, except I think he's so horrible to the women he's with I'm not sure I'd wish that on her. (Speaking of Will's love interests, where's Emma? I would have loved her reaction to Sue being weird.) The slushie thing is getting old - I get it, all high school bullies are sociopaths until they join Glee Club. (Although to be fair, they did a good job with it last night, with Karofsky pointing out that not all of them were going to buy into it completely, but for all we know next episode Karofsky will be the only football player not in Glee Club.) And... I don't know.

I wonder if some of this is the second season slump - not just for the show, but for me. I'm having the same problem with Community, and I had the same problem with Heroes (though that's probably in part due to the fact that Heroes evolved into a species of WTF.) Maybe I build up so much hope for what the show's going to be, and then it isn't, and I get bored? I don't know. I do find that there's a lot of shows people eventually stopped liking that I started watching late and haven't really had any problems with, like Buffy - I came into it years after it ended, so I didn't really have anything to expect or anticipate while waiting for the next season. Plus, I knew the gist of what would be happening, since Buffy is one of those shows that you get spoiled for if you're in certain circles. But even what I've heard of the Buffy complaints have mostly been post-season three. (And while I didn't mind post-season three, I can understand why there were complaints as it did become a very different show after that point.)

On the other hand, I shouldn't even have that many hopes for Glee - it's an intentionally silly show. So I don't know what my problem is.

Comments

[spirit-dog.livejournal.com]

What gets to me is that they do a performance and everyone loves them, and then they're back to being bullied and being the underdogs. It doesn't work that way, or at least it would be a small amount of people picking on them, not the entire school. Glee went from feeling like the performances enhanced the storyline to the storyline is driven by what they want to do for performances and it makes the show really uneven.

They also reset an aweful at the end of episodes for a show with a continuing storyline. Sue learns about bullying, Sue goes back to being a bully.

Then again I also miss the Cheerio's and Vocal Adrenaline performances.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work that way, or at least it would be a small amount of people picking on them, not the entire school.

Exactly. And there's very little to no passive-aggressive bullying shown, which from what I can remember was the most common and the worst. Sure, I had people who'd outright make fun of me (if no physical bullying), but a lot of the time it was people who'd be really nice to me until I needed a partner for a project or a team to be on in gym class; suddenly they'd barely know me, much less want me around. And that could be what it is with some of the students in the show - it's one thing to cheer for them when they're in a position to admit they actually think Glee Club kind of rocks, but they're still not going to let Tina or Artie sit with them at lunch. Even Quinn probably doesn't let Tina or Artie sit with her at lunch, and she's obviously in Glee Club herself. However, we really don't see evidence of that - it's either slushy or no slushy. And that's a shame, because as I said, I think that's more common and just as damaging.

Sue learns about bullying, Sue goes back to being a bully.

Yeah. It would be nice to see some growth there.

[spirit-dog.livejournal.com]

Exactly, heck most of the bullying in highschool (and a lot was done to me tbh, I've always been a bit odd, and it wasn't a good time to be odd) was a lot quieter. It was a lot more dark whispers and being excluded then actual physical harassment. The slushie thing was a nice gimmick for an episode but it's not at all a long term- believable form of bullying.

If you look at season 1 compared to season 2 the pacing is really different. Season 1 has really rapid pacing for a lot of the episodes in comparison. The cutting is pretty different as well. The music is a lot more integrated into the show and a lot less "oh look so and so is performing now".

That being said I really liked Sue as principal at the beginning of the season where she did all of this stuff standing up for Kurt and then she reverted pretty quickly. It's like some characters can grow but others have to remain charactertures, and it was better when everyone was a bit more well cartoony, as well as recycling storylines with different wrappers.

[acusa-dora.livejournal.com]

You're not the first person I've heard complain about the show. One of my friends just told me that she loved Season One and now, not so much.

[ozqueen]

I don't watch Glee, but this is the third post on my flist in the past two days which says interest is waning/gone. So you're not alone, apparently. ;)

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

I've pretty much always commented with the same thing, I stopped watching a while back just because the inconsistencies in that show were ridiculous. I also think that the writers ran out of material really quickly. I mean it was like, "Oh no Glee Club will be cancelled because of funding problems! We need to win such and such competition!" so they win, but then the whole issue starts over again with the club being threatened by lack of funding or something or another.

And the relationships were just odd. Finn liked Rachel. Finn didn't like Rachel. Then he liked her, then he didn't. Then someone else liked her and he didn't like that someone else liked her. And so on. At this point if I ever watched it again it would be purely for the performanes, none of the plot whatsoever.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there were things I really, really loved about last night's, but I am getting quite sick of the lack of development and the way everyone OMG LOVES GLEE THEY'RE SO COOL or TTLY HATES THEM LOL SLUSHY IN THE FACE.

[talimeeka.livejournal.com]

Glee is so touch and go. Basically, the plot lines suck and the writing is so so. I'm not ready to give it up, but I'm finding myself fast-forwarding through parts of the the episodes.