- Kurt's sweaters
- Song choices
- Dot singing 'Jolene'
- Santana maturing
Negatives, though...:
- Santana's coming out scene felt so rushed and so unreal. It was just so...plastic. The smile, the happiness about telling her--I mean, no matter how confident she was that her abuela would accept her, I feel that realistically speaking, she would have still been hella-nervous. And the length of that scene--a few short minutes--is so...ugh. There wasn't the necessary mood build-up; it was artificial, and despite how good of an actress Naya Rivera is, it just didn't work. And it could have been so good, like Kurt's coming out in Season 1, only different because of the reaction. The way this was set up though, with all those other sideplots running around at the same time, it was just too abrupt, and that made the little segment so much less effective in adequately representing the abuela's sentiments, and the sentiments of having to come out, especially for someone from a traditionally conservative culture.
- All the extra sideplots, especially the Puck-Shelly/Puck-Quinn plot. The election things also seemed rushed, and it didn't seem particularly relevant to the plot/theme of the episode (if there were a theme in the first place).
KEN! You should do Gleecaps every week!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I agree.