Weird, right? Nah, she’s just a backdrop to the Kurt and Santana stuff. Oh! And weirdly enough - there’s no discussion from Rachel about her own break up with Finn (which makes sense because of Cory), or about Brody, or Cassie, or any of the stuff that happened to Rachel in season 4. Meanwhile - Rachel has gotten them all jobs as elves at the mall. It reminds me of the Tattooo Guy in The End of Twerk - telling Kurt that if he’s going to go nuts, he has to go all out. The point, however, of Santana’s little monologue of exposition here is to set the stage for what’s going to happen in the rest of the episode. That’s just part of the make up of the character. Glee being in its FU mode is going to rectify that - just not in the way that’s going to satisfy anyone (I shouldn’t generalize - I know there are people who love this episode, my regards).Īnd - in a FWIW thought, Kurt is an old grandma. It seems they want to address two specific things about Kurt (that I have at least seen in criticisms, and I’m pretty sure the writers did, too) – a) That he didn’t have enough of a “normal teenage reaction” to his break up with Blaine and b) that Kurt is an old grandma, desexualized gay. (Are we being edgy yet - the writers ask? Just you wait )) Okay, so this scene kind of sets up what the whole New York act is supposed to be about. We open on the New York side with Santana crashing at the loft, buying Kurt weird doll heads and tickets to Dildo island. That long winded, probably unnecessary preamble aside - here we go. I’m going through it just the same because a) for completeness sake - it’d bother me if I didn’t, b) there are some interesting Kurt-meta points that I think are worth bringing up.
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And really, I could skip it if I really wanted to. It could have (sort of - there are so many continuity errors that it hurts my head). Meanwhile - I need to state that this did not happen in the main timeline. Glee can go that extra mile, why not? Who knows. Why not shoot it into the future, or just switch everyone’s bodies again. Why bring it back to season 4 (other than you have newbies you have to deal with). They kind of did in Glee, Actually with Artie’s fantasy. I mean if you’re going to go AU - why not do something entirely wacky. However, shout out to for bringing up the point that – if Glee wanted to go cracky, they could have gone so much further. Yes - I’ll bet they did, at some point, come up with the Rough Trade Santa thing the previous year, and just discarded it until now.
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However, this whole intro does seem to make things confusing. (I do think the writers didn’t give a flying fuck - and were warning about that…) No - this was most definitely not a lost episode, nor do I think it’s any more or less controversial than anything else they did on the show. And I’m bringing it up because this whole set up seemed to confuse everyone. We open with Jane Lynch talking about how this was a secret hidden away episode. I wonder if they had another, more heartfelt, Christmas episode idea for their final one. At this point - season six was not shortened. The show has been kind of off the rails for most of season 5, and this episode almost feels like the climax of that (after the break - things feel a little more…normal?)Īnyway - I don’t know exactly how we ended up here - but I kind of wish that Glee didn’t end it’s Christmas run on a, well, whatever this note is. We just had an episode about puppets, twerking, and dressing up in bizarre Lady Gaga outfits. I mean - this is cracky Glee - it’s been cracky Glee for a while now. I also have to wonder if Cory’s passing plays a small part. Because more so, the nastiness towards Christmas feels like that. I don’t necessarily think it’s to the fans explicitly (though the stuff with Kurt kinda feels like that), but in general, I’m guessing they were forced into a holiday episode that they didn’t really want to do by the network. (The second one I’ll explain within the narrative of the episode.) The first is that it does kind of feel like an FU to pretty much everyone.
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I, personally, have two issues with the whole thing. I know people are split on either loving this episode or hating this episode - maybe doing this will help me figure out what’s really going on.
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It still makes my stomach twist a little for reasons that I can’t entirely articulate (and I suspect are far more personal than any real issue the episode presents). Look - it’s no secret that I am not a fan of this episode. Finding Kurt Hummel: Previously Unaired Christmas