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[susie_flo]

Good afternoon fiends! Today I am wondering... are there any Gleeks on my f-list?

Having watched the first four episodes, my verdict so far is that it is confusing my senses. You have to wade through a fair amount of schmaltz in order to be rewarded with sporadic moments of wonderful, cruel comedy. Last night it delivered a supremely funny moment which caused G and I to hoot so much that we forgave all of the cheesy bits leading up to it. (This was the bit where the entire football team breaks into a Beyonce dance routine... you'll have to trust me when I say it's funnier than it sounds).

'Tis probably not suitable viewing for anyone who hates and despises musicals... (but what kind of lunacy is that?)

So how long before British schools start having Glee clubs? Do they already have them? They certainly all seem to have proms these days... (unlike the old days when all we had were "school discos" which were nowhere near as glamorous as proms, and certainly nothing like the imaginary John-Hughes-with-a-bucket-of-blood proms that went on in my head.)

Eep! My big boss has just become my latest Flickr contact...

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I am a lunatic - I hate and despise musicals unless they are:
South Pacific
Batboy The Musical
High Society

Aah Carrie had such a fabulous prom night didn't it?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Gasp... you are clearly the worst kind of heathen and should be forced to kiss the relic of Madonna's Evita coffin as a penance.

And yes, I still remember the first time I saw Carrie.. I was probably a bit too young for it (about 11 or 12) and was scared out of my jim jams. I remember physically leaping off my chair when the hand came up out of the ground!

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I would rather gnaw off my own leg than watch Evita......

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh! You are only talking about the greatest musical ever written. Great songs, political infamy, dark, edgy lyrics... what more could you want?

(Actually don't answer that... it's bound to involve a Malcolm Tucker / James Mason sandwich of unsavoury proportions) ;-)

Why has nobody made Malcolm Tucker - the Musical? If they can do Jerry Springer the Opera, surely the floodgates are now open...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I saw so many horror films at a tender early age that I shouldn't have done really which has probably added to my jadedness when it comes to these things.

Best horror film I've seen recently was Dead Snow - gruesome, funny, clever, knowing, all round top film.

Best films I watched with my Dad - all the Friday The 13ths, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Carrie and then I'd watch all the Hammer Horror and Roger Corman ones on my own as my dad said he'd already seen them and they were rubbish. I loved them and still do :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You and Mark Kermode would get on like a house on fire... (a shared love of the 1950s + horror films = a match made in heaven)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oh the thought of a James Mason/Malcolm Tucker sandwich has made me come over all unnecessary.....especially if it could be followed by a Detective Goren and CSI's Ray Langston chaser.

I really like Mark Kermode too - though I'm sure he'd find my love of skulls a bit much though...wonder if he shares my love/hate of Lady Diane though....

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

It's the word that they heard, it's got groove it's got meaning

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the film other than the bits which went with the songs on Top of the Pops and what I did see didn't grab me, but I did like the song Greased Lightning.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Now you're beginning to upset me...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I quite like Meet Me In St Louis and Cabaret, does this help you get over my dislike of Evita?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

It's your turn to gasp at me now, because I haven't seen either of those. (We do have a copy of Cabaret at home that we've been meaning to watch. I'm quite looking forward to it, despite Liza Minelli.)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Meet Me In Saint Louis is mostly plotless but very charming and shot in the beautiful early forties kind of technicolour which is really sumptuous.....plus it has Saint Judy singing the Trolley Song.

Cabaret is good - Liza Minelli is marvellous in it, and the songs are excellent. I read Isherwood's book it was based on recently and that was a really good read - far better to read that.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Hester, and I love Glee. I have all 13 episodes (more on their way! Yay!) on my laptop. I nearly wept with laughter at the scene you mention (and nearly, without laughter, at the end of the episode, because, OMG, it was so... Oh!), and am tempted to go home and watch it again a few times.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hoorah for fangirlery! G nearly choked during the football scene, it was truly hilarious.

(Meanwhile I am tempted to start finishing my sentences in work meetings with a Sue Sylvester style hand movement accompanied by "because that's how Sue SEES things")

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

One of our placement students has a cold and is feeling a bit sorry for herself; I'm so tempted to tell her "You think that's hard? I'm living with hepatitis, now _that's_ hard!"

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Not a full-blown Gleek, but I'm watching it and quite enjoying it.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Dittto... and given the high scores it gets on IMDB, I'm quietly hopeful that it will continue to get better.