Wednesday: Meta meta all the time!

[narceus]

 Happy Wednesday, y'all.  A few comments before we start:

First of all, remember that yesterday's spoiler post is open all week to talk about what's going on next week, or any of the episodes after that.  (Tag your spoilers in the comment title, y'all.)

Also, the lovely jakia  has given us a nice in-depth set of screencaps and discussion for the performance that was released yesterday, so go check that out there.


Next week, we get back into aired episodes again!  So just a reminder, our weekly posting schedule is going to go just a little bit differently.

Next Tuesday morning, we'll kick things off with one big giant Tuesday edge-of-our seats excitement post.  Spoilers are ok, but tag them, because once showtime turns around this will turn into our liveblog and episode reaction post!  (Depending on how this week goes, later we'll experiment with having separate posts for the liveblog and reaction).

After that, we get two new, episode-weeks-only posts: a special spec post dedicated to the new trailer, that we can use all week to talk about the episode airing on 4/17, and a gifs-and-images post where we just roll around in all the gifs that the episode has to offer.  Good times!

Then, next Wednesday, 'Ask Your Questions Day' becomes 'Here's What You Missed!'  It's a post to talk about namedrops, references (in dialogue, visuals, or anything else), and all the other little things we may or may not have caught while the episode was airing.  (We'll still have space for general meta discussion).


It is going to be an exciting time, my fine ladies, gents, and otherwise-identified persons of greatness.

For now, meta in the comments here!  Talk more about next week's spoilers, or discuss things we know from the past.  Let's start gearing ourselves up for the awesome.

Comments

[needs_more_green]

But how does Blaine actually sing his own story.

I think they clearly have different ways of dealing with not being able to say what's actually wrong. I think performing seems to be cathartic for Blaine, because he can have and express a general emotion, even if it's not always his. And for Quinn... singing doesn't seem to be enough (especially given she grew up in the McKinley environment in which singing is even more destructive to the rep and image etc she so carefully set up for herself). I think expressing herself through song is something still relevatively new and weird for her. I mean, she didn't get everyone ever telling her to do it like Finn--only Rachel ever encouraged it (and that was when she sang Keep Me Hanging On).

OH HELP FABERRY FEELS WHAT.

I... I don't remember where that was going, and most of that is probably headcanon, so.

[needs_more_green]

*how OFTEN does Blaine... >< WHAT ARE WORDS.

[sarahhgg.livejournal.com]

Suggestion: Maybe Quinn keeps people at a distance by not talking about anything, holding herself above/ away from people and making herself unapproachable. She's the head cheerleader, the leader of the chastity club, she's on the honour roll; she's prettier and smarter than all of you and you'd better know it. (Looking at the list above, the one time she willingly sings that she's not fine, is when she's pregnant and very, very visibly *not* the perfect head cheerleader- no point in pretending she's fine at that stage.) She makes sure nobody knows what she's worried about, what she's scared of, by *never* admitting to anything and making it clear that no-one can ask. See: Finn in Funeral, saying he never knows how Quinn is feeling, "Scary Quinn." Quinn makes herself perfect and untouchable, so she doesn't sing solo by choice because that would mean admitting to something, allowing people to read something into what she thinks and feels, allowing other people to have an opinion on her and her feelings that she doesn't have any kind of control over.

Blaine then perhaps keeps people at a distance by being indiscrimately friendly, always giving enough that people see him as so open and easy-going that it wouldn't even occur to them to look beyond what he's showing to them so willingly. They assume he's just always that happy and exuberant, because he's such an open book that it would be *obvious* if something were wrong, of course one of his (many) friends would notice. When he sings, it's mostly to gather people to him and around him (see: Teenage Dream, Misery, Last Friday Night and Gotta Be Starting Something (in that last he literally goes around the school, bringing more of the group into the performance wherever he goes)). He draws attention to what he wants people to see, and because that's easy (it's what they want to see as well), he's able to hide away everything else. If he knows what they see of him, he has some sort of control over their opinion of him.

So, both of them want to hide/ smother their emotions a lot of the time and both of them have been part of the popular crowd, but where Quinn uses that to be perfect and untouchable (and woe betide anyone who gets too close to cracking that facade), Blaine uses it to be everyone's friend and reveal exactly as much as he's comfortable with (and then pretend that's all there is to say). Both can get away without being questioned because they both project am image of "fine" so well that most people won't notice what they're not saying until something cracks.

Quinn gets to be a mystery; nobody knows and nobody will ask. Blaine appears to be so obvious and open that everyone already thinks they know, so nobody would bother to ask.

[crown_of_weeds]

Seconding all of this.