I pumped my fist in the air when Rachel said, "Wait, does this mean you're going to be against us at Sectionals?" Thank you for reminding me that even when Kurt is taking over this show, Rachel is still the star of her own. Love you, crazy girl. The fact that Rachel is written with flaws is what endears her to me the most, in fact.
MY GIRL. MY GIRL FOREVER.
I think my favorite moment in the entire episode was that one moment in the choreography for Finn's song when he reached out and she ran forward—and then, giggling, stepped back and pushed Kurt forward. Perfect. Rachel Berry taking the spotlight by force of habit and charm, then stepping back and laughing at herself and letting Kurt take it because it was his day. This is who she is. This is why there must never be haters. Star power and always going to grab the light, but with a passionately self-aware core. I love this girl so much.
(So basically if an episode gives me Rachel—and Santana, as of this season—and some decent music and doesn't have a Falchuk script, it probably gets the thumbs up from me. I have never been discerning with this show: it takes an epic screwup for me to get my rageohol on, because otherwise I just coast on my biases and general good cheer and it's always worked out fine.) I have to say that Quinn's burst of feminism, while intellectually dumb, wasn't OOC—she usually gets throwaway lines, but she's always had a strong streak of overt feminism that's sometimes hard to register because her lines are so throwaway. But yeah—she's the one who said something about how women still constantly make less than men in "Power of Madonna", for example, and she's got a backlog of little things like that. So it read as Quinn being dumb'n'haughty, not the writers messing with her that much: that's like the one constant thing in her damn character.
...I could not give less of a damn about Sam, though. Does he even go here, guys?
Also IA 100% wrt shipper names. Sets my teeth on edge. Biggest pet peeve in any context, and just—why. Why would you ever think that was cute. Fandom, I live with a side eye on; Murphy, I'm just glaring at. WHY.
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MY GIRL. MY GIRL FOREVER.
I think my favorite moment in the entire episode was that one moment in the choreography for Finn's song when he reached out and she ran forward—and then, giggling, stepped back and pushed Kurt forward. Perfect. Rachel Berry taking the spotlight by force of habit and charm, then stepping back and laughing at herself and letting Kurt take it because it was his day. This is who she is. This is why there must never be haters. Star power and always going to grab the light, but with a passionately self-aware core. I love this girl so much.
(So basically if an episode gives me Rachel—and Santana, as of this season—and some decent music and doesn't have a Falchuk script, it probably gets the thumbs up from me. I have never been discerning with this show: it takes an epic screwup for me to get my rageohol on, because otherwise I just coast on my biases and general good cheer and it's always worked out fine.)
I have to say that Quinn's burst of feminism, while intellectually dumb, wasn't OOC—she usually gets throwaway lines, but she's always had a strong streak of overt feminism that's sometimes hard to register because her lines are so throwaway. But yeah—she's the one who said something about how women still constantly make less than men in "Power of Madonna", for example, and she's got a backlog of little things like that. So it read as Quinn being dumb'n'haughty, not the writers messing with her that much: that's like the one constant thing in her damn character.
...I could not give less of a damn about Sam, though. Does he even go here, guys?
Also IA 100% wrt shipper names. Sets my teeth on edge. Biggest pet peeve in any context, and just—why. Why would you ever think that was cute. Fandom, I live with a side eye on; Murphy, I'm just glaring at. WHY.