{"id":3792,"date":"2010-04-18T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2023-02-25T23:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T06:47:16","slug":"glee-premiere-ugly-betty-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/glee-premiere-ugly-betty-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"glee premiere + ugly betty finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beginning and an end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/glee-hello.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Glee<\/b><br \/>\nYAY, it&#8217;s back! LOVE this show. But like my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/lepapillon.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah<\/a>, I have to admit that I enjoy this show for the novelty of it. I love the musical numbers, get a kick out of the whiplash-inducing storylines (Rachel\/Puck, Rachel\/Finn, and now Rachel\/Jesse), and adore the snappy dialogue (&#8220;Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?&#8221; &#8211; oh, Brittany) &#8212; but I&#8217;m not totally invested in any of the characters. I love them, sure &#8212; how can you not love Rachel&#8217;s self-absorbed ambition or Puck&#8217;s cockiness? I just don&#8217;t feel connected or protective of them the way I do with other characters.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the episode&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8212; Is it just me or did (almost) everything that happened in <i>Sectionals<\/i> get bumped back to &#8220;normal?&#8221; Sue and Emma are back teaching (Sue I understand but what happened with Emma?), Finn and Rachel aren&#8217;t dating, and Brittany and Santana are scheming with Sue again. Like I said earlier, storyline whiplash. But for some reason, this kind of back and forth doesn&#8217;t bother me with this show.<br \/>\n&#8212; I like Rachel\/Finn (though not enough to officially ship them) but I wanted to knock some sense into both of them! I get the feeling that Rachel only likes the <i>idea<\/i> of Finn (he&#8217;s popular, cute, sings). She doesn&#8217;t actually <i>know<\/i> him. I mean, I know it&#8217;s in her personality to be overly enthusiastic about things but Finn *just* found out his best friend and ex-girlfriend slept around behind his back. Cut him a little slack! Not that Finn is any better going out with Brittany and Santana. OMG, these two.<br \/>\n&#8212; I&#8217;m so torn about Will. I want to like him but he makes the absolute worst choices. Like&#8230; MAKING OUT WITH SHELBY WHEN HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND.<br \/>\n&#8212; I&#8217;ve never seen or heard Jonathan Groff in anything before and I thought he was great! It&#8217;s nice to finally have Lea Michele sing with someone who&#8217;s actually her vocal equal (sorry Cory). Too bad his scheming was totally projected in that one look he shared with Idina Menzel&#8217;s character. This show is so predictable.<br \/>\n&#8212; Loved seeing more Mike Chang! Maybe they&#8217;ll actually develop his character a little bit this season? If not, I&#8217;d be happy with more dancing. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait for next week&#8217;s Madonna episode!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/uglybettyfinale1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Ugly Betty<\/b><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t watched the last 2 seasons of <i>Ugly Betty<\/i> (it got a little too over the top for me) but I loved it once upon a time so I wanted to see how it all ended. There were many storylines that I didn&#8217;t understand (Amanda and her father, Wilhelmina having a boyfriend in jail, etc) but whatever, I still enjoyed seeing the characters get their happy endings. And yes, I totally cried at the end when Betty says goodbye to her family before leaving for London. Waahhhh.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I watched the show, I DID NOT even think of Betty and Daniel as anything other than friends but after all the hints of Daniel&#8217;s feelings in this episode, I totally got on board that ship. When Daniel signs Betty&#8217;s contract release form, his quiet sadness about her leaving seriously killed me. I totally forgot how great Eric Mabius is.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/uglybettyfinale2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And their final scene! It worked for me as an acknowledgment of the <i>possibility<\/i> of a future relationship. Their flirty banter, awkward hug, and Betty looking back as Daniel watches her walk away&#8230; well, that was all just icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, loved the final title card. Just&#8230; BETTY. Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beginning and an end&#8230; Glee YAY, it&#8217;s back! LOVE this show. But like my friend Sarah, I have to admit that I enjoy this show for the novelty of it. I love the musical numbers, get a kick out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/glee-premiere-ugly-betty-finale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[145,291,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}