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[akeyoftime]

Glee :(


Recognizing that your minority characters are under-used is great and saying that they're valued is great, but leaving it there without taking action in the meta context is sending a pretty huge mixed signal.

I also do not care for Will's "no class" insult or Sue's transgender bashing. I try not to take anything Sue says seriously because it's she's such an obvious bad guy and caricature, but that crossed a line because the average viewer probably isn't going to read it as just another outlandishly ridiculous thing Sue says.

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[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I was a little distracted/falling asleep while I was watching last night, but I got the impression that Sue's claims about the minority characters being under-used by Will were essentially baseless, which is part of why Will was so outraged?

Sue was essentially a way of manipulating the kids against him without really having to make any specific claim, the meta of the episode was that people are often so quick to jump on the racial prejudice bandwagon, that they sometimes don't look to see whether or not it's appropriate?

I had my eyes closed most of the episode, so perhaps I missed something in body language. :S

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

That's the trouble. Maybe Will doesn't under-use the minority kids (though Quinn says the feel it, unless we assume she's lying), but the show itself does. Kurt and Mercedes have gotten an episode or two each, but the leads who drive the week-to-week plot tend to be Rachel, Will, Will's wife, Emma, Quinn, and Finn. We still know very little about Tina and next to nothing about Artie and I think that they're supposed to be main cast.

I like your interpretation of the episode and that it makes some good points, but the overall framing leaves something to be desired.

[rainbowfox.livejournal.com]

I think Artie and Tina will get their chance to shine soon. We sorta saw a bit of Tina when Rachel left Glee Club for the musical and Will gave Tina the lead female.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

I hope so! My major complaints after the spring premiere about Artie have been more or less resolved, so it's not all bad news.

I know that the show is trying to be socially conscious, which is actually making me judge it all the harder.

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

I am optimistic! The cast has certainly been increasingly developed as the show goes on. I think part of the difficulty is that the characters are all musical archtypes as a base, and so will seem two dimensional until they get "their" episode.

I imagine they'll get to each character before the season is out - they've been doing one a week, or so.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delayed reply. I was trying to figure out how to work this/writing essays.

My objection is not that the characters have not yet had their chance to shine and actually, I rather look forward to Artie's episode. And Tina's! Where I'm seeing the lack of walking-the-walk is that the main non-minority characters (baring Rachel, according the next week's trailers) seem to get at least a little something to advance their plot every week - often more - while the rest have to wait for their episodes.

Did that make sense?