Meta Wednesday!

[jakia]

Let's talk about Meta!  

 

For today, how about we focus on season 3 as a whole, and what we've learned/observered/obsessed over for this season!  Parallels, patterns, questionable song choices, color theory, and characterization should be discussed here!

Comments

Re: Characterization and Other Meta

[misqueue]

Yeah, it's an enduring mystery of Glee that Kurt didn't--at the least--have some wide-eyed freshmen girls following him around between classes, because he's become so frickin' beautiful. He is exactly the kind of senior boy I would have had a terrible hopeless crush on when I was a freshman, anyway.

Ooh, interesting about Beiste! I am wondering now, after reading your comment, if maybe Glee -- since it likes its dramatic irony -- specifically had Beiste utter that line because she is also gender non-conforming, but in a different way than Kurt is. Maybe it is part of her internalized self-hatred, as you suggest, because she feels like girl, but she doesn't look like a girl. She's got a dysphoria that's affected her seriously in her life and relationships, so maybe she's unwilling to really see Kurt, the not so delicate, completely (sexually) compelling boy, through his gender transgressions, because she wouldn't choose to be so misunderstood herself, but perhaps to her it seems that he does choose it (even though we know from "Laryngitis" and "Theatricality" that the element of choice for Kurt is not that simple or easy or pain free). Not sure. It is definitely worthy of more thought!

Re: Characterization and Other Meta

[misqueue]

And, in the interests of not being a jerk again, when I say Shannon 'doesn't look like a girl', I mean by her own internal standards based upon when she says "I don't look how pretty girls look". That and her general sense of her own unlovableness makes me think think she has serious issues with her physicality (even as she embraces it and gets strength from it in other ways as per her conversation with Britt in S2 AVG). But she still doesn't maybe believe that there's nothing wrong with being a butch girl. Butch girls are hot, too.

(I apologize if anyone took offense at my repeated carelessness with words.)