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14th December 2011

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agletthatiscracked:

couldbeyourlife:

queuetheboner:

That was an adorable episode and I want to live in the gifs of it forever BUUUUUT it would not be Glee if there weren’t some distinctively terrible narrative problems.

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I joked when Chord came back that with him being the Buttmonkey he was going to be the Xander Harris without all the fail.

Looks like he’s just going to be the Xander Harris (heart of the group, good nice guy that deserves and understands more than all those around him) full stop. 

WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?  I MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO SHIP SAM/MERCEDES NOW.  DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

JFC, this show needs to stop with moralizing straight white dudes telling the rest of us how to live.  Because, fucking hell, what the fuck is this shit? 

You can tell stories without one person being entirely right and another being entirely wrong.

You can have character growth without turning someone into a sanctimonious asshole or regressing someone else into a caricature of the fleshed out person you have gradually turned them into.

You can be a satirical comedy with a heart without reducing your characters to gross cliches and then beating them over the head with an unearned morality lesson.

This fucking show. Ugh.

It’s so funny because it seems like EVERY SHOW feels like they have to have this type of character yet this character is always THE WORST ( and usually a straight white male, which increases the annoying factor- yet is also I think why it’s done).

Like, in the Big Bang Theory- Leonard is this character. I mostly can’t stand him (and watch the show entirely for Sheldon and Amy and Penny). He’s the “average guy”, the “straight man” (in a comedic sense) that viewers are clearly supposed to relate to, compared to the wacky other characters. Therefore I find him the most annoying thing there is.

In How I Met Your Mother, Ted is often this character. He’s not quite as bad, but I want to punch him so much. Barney may be a douchebag asshole, but at least he mostly owns it, you know?

In Glee, Will and now Finn have become this character, and it looks like they’re turning Sam into this as well. It’s a special marker of the shittiness of Glee sometimes that there are now three main characters which fit this description (does this type of character have a tvtrope? Is it too broad a category?)

I think this set-up is sort of how Community was framed in the beginning but since I’ve only seen one episode (the glee one lol) I can’t really comment.

Source: sexyglances