Breaking up with a show
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author_by_nightI 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-02-09 12:21 am (UTC)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.