Glee: (just like) starting over...

[ebayj]

BEST. GLEE. EVER.

Utter genius. Seriously. Wow.

[Beefcake]

This episode was epic! I especially liked the throwback bit at the beginning.
I Dreamed a Dream - :swoon:
Dream On - :rockstar:
Agree on all counts. One of the best-ever Glee episodes. IDAD will probably become my first Glee download. Loved it. No Finn singing! Loved it.

Artie's scenes had me :fragile: a few times ... all of the usual longings of teenagehood but with the harsh reality of his physical limitations thrown in. Crushing. His Dream a Little Dream :wuzrobbed ... watching his girl dance with a surrogate, Mike, who just may be talented enough to realize Artie's [former] dream of being a dancer.

Yes, I thought of Gokey during Dream On, especially when NPH and Morrison mostly hit the ending high note and the scream. My dogs' ears did not bleed during the NPH/MM ending, so Gokey's record there still stands.

NPH is perfection. Nothing else to add. :swoon:

This was Buffy's Whedon? I am floored and should've bought a lottery ticket today. I watched a Sarah Silverman repeat on Logo after work, and then versus tuning out when Buffy came on like I always have, I was intrigued by SMG singing the opening ... and instead I watched the episode. It was the "Once More, With Feeling" eppy.

Kid you not, I'd not seen two minutes of Buffy before tonight, but I watched OMWF just an hour before this Glee episode of Glee. Spooky, or well maybe Logo planned it that way as cross-promoting. Oh, and James Marsters :grope:

[Kasey]

"Dream on" woke up my cat. The not-Gokey scream part. She looks impressed. (just downloaded in iTunes)

[Quintuple]

Wow, I'm usually right in line with y'all, but I didn't like this episode all that much. But I'm one of those people who gets really angry with characters even if they're just playing fictional antagonists, even comedically (i.e. more annoyed with than entertained by Sue and Terri most of the time, though I've come around to Sue). So I just kept saying, "Ugh, why's he (NPH) so selfish and horrible?" and just wanted him to come to a *good* realization at the end. Hmph. That and I really wasn't into his "Dream On" singing ... until the upper-octave screeching. Loved that.

I thought most of the Artie/Tina storyline was really heavy-handed and done in a way it's been done a million times before, but I'm not really holding to that opinion because of the sensitive subject, I dunno. I saw his fall from the crutches and "go away" coming and just cringed.

What I did love:
- Mike Chang's elegant long lines! (Not Tina's though!)
- The "anger sex" part. Hee-larious.

Another "factual inaccuracy" (i.e. Puck's line about SMB 3 last week):
- Kurt would NEVER gasp and be the first to grab a bedazzled, lettered DENIM JACKET seven sizes too large for him. Though that part was funny.

[essence_of_soy]

Here's the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJYUwxG3tY&NR=1)


These guys are a classic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lp3s4ygDw0)

[uyeahu]

This was my favorite episode yet BY FAR. It was what this show should always be. I never once got the feeling that they created a musical number and then figured out how to work the plot around it as I've felt for far too many of the episodes up to now. And NPH and Idina and Molly Shannon and ALL these amazing supplementary characters are working so perfectly with the core cast. LOVED IT!

[vesperholly]

I also love NPH. How long has Idina Menzel been on the show? I've only started watching recently (with daughter). Idina is a little too young to be Lea's mother, sister maybe? :lol: I didn't want the show to end tonight!

Well, Idina Menzel was born in 1971, so she would've been 23 to have Rachel in 1994 (though Lea Michele is 8 years older than her character). Totally plausible. I was sad that Jesse is playing Rachel. :( I love Jonathan Groff, he's a hilarious douchey character but this croses the line into mean.

So glad they've beefed up Artie and Tina's parts. Kevin McHale was really great in this episode - and who knew he could dance? The Safety Dance was off the hook. Balancing the storylines is a really wise idea IMO.

NPH :rofl: :cheer2:

The only missing piece? No crazy quote from "does he mean like a burglar alarm?" Brittany!

I CANNOT WAIT to see Kurt sing Bad Romance. I flove Kurt. :watch:

[Norlite]

Geez, I was sooo tired last night I fell asleep right after Dream on. (which was amazing!!) Shoulda napped yesterday. :wuzrobbed:


I think it's rerun here tonight.

[cruisin]

This is only Idina's 2nd episode... I think. She may have briefly been in another. But it is possible for her to be Rachel's mother, if we go by Idina's real age (38).

Yes, but Lea's real age is 23, so... Don't get me wrong, they look so much alike and sing together brilliantly. It's that Lea sort of looks too old to be a high school student (she actually looks a little older than she is) and it always makes me chuckle when they cast parents that are too young. In this case, the singing works so it's okay :D.

[AYS]

Last I checked, even 38 and 23 were biologically possible ages for a mother and daughter...plausible even, when you consider the fact the the character gave the kid up for adoption. I also don't find that Lea looks particularly old...I find her quite convincing as a HS student.

[vesperholly]

None of the Glee students are HS age. Chris Colfer is the only teen in the cast at 19 and Cory Monteith is the oldest at 28 - only 4 years younger than Matthew Morrison. If they cast real high school-age actors, we'd probably all be crowing about how they look like babies. ;)

[michiruwater]

I don't think Lea looks older than she is at all... I think she looks quite a bit younger than 23. I've always thought she was the most convincing of the cast for her age, along with Chris of course.

[rjblue]

Another "factual inaccuracy" (i.e. Puck's line about SMB 3 last week):
- Kurt would NEVER gasp and be the first to grab a bedazzled, lettered DENIM JACKET seven sizes too large for him. Though that part was funny.
This was the only thing wrong with the whole show for me. He should've cringed.

[nerdycool]

Another thing I forgot to mention that I loved about last night's episode: The Safety Dance part. While I didn't dig the actual song, the dancing part was a nod to the trend of "flash mobbing", which I just stumbled upon a few weeks ago. And they usually make my day better just watching them.

A flash mob is a group of random people who come together in a large public space and dance a choreographed routine (or something else, like a pillow fight), and then go their separate ways once over. There've been Glee flash mobs popping up all over the world recently, and perhaps this is what influenced the director.

My favorite Glee flash mobs: Seattle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5PyIVVKoWU), Ohio State (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDNOB6TnHSI), Madrid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnNS16TkAg)

[Allskate]

Idina is a little too young to be Lea's mother, sister maybe? :lol:

I find it totally believable. As soon as I heard Idina was going to be on the show, I told a friend that she would end up being Rachel's mother. They look so much a like.