Ask Your Questions Wednesday

[narceus]

A slightly belated post today, but we're up, and we're ready to let the meta fly.

Ideas/questions/concepts, anything at all you're ready to spin off into a discussion of something meta but don't quite have a full handle on yet--we're open for business. Come on in, and have at.

(PLEASE NOTE: any spoilers you're working with should be in appropriately-marked threads, IE, the number of the unaired episode you're spoiling in the comment header. TIA!)

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Re: more thinky thoughts later, but this has been bothering me for a while

[robotsfighting]

A) It's my firm, vaguely cracky belief that Trent was the guy who said that to Sebastian. I mean, probably not in so many words. I don't think anyone can seriously let the words sex on a stick pass their lips without irony other than totally unselfconscious creepers like Sebastian. But I can totally see Trent interjecting into a group conversation with The New Kid about how Blaine was their attractive, charming former lead, now tragically lost to the foreign lands of McKinley High. And Sebastian latched onto the idea, and when he actually saw Blaine, well. He thought he might use it to his advantage.

B) Hey. Bow ties are cool. /nerd But! No, I totally agree, except that to me Darren Criss is just goofy, with the ability to occasionally be caught making a face that isn't ridiculous. I find both Darren and Blaine adorable, but nowhere really on the spectrum of "sexy." But I'm a horrible judge of these things. Especially for guys. He was maybe a little sexy doing Janet/Michael Jackson? Control and Wanna Be Starting Something?

C) That dream thing is fascinating. I would never have connected those instances. I sit in the camp of Blaine Was Warblerbot Before Kurt. I come to these characters (ALL of them) with way too much headcanon backstory to actually approach them exactly the way the show presents them, especially Blaine, but I feel like Dreamboat A Capella is a moniker Blaine assigned himself in the mirror every morning at Dalton, pulling on his jacket and pushing everything that wasn't Prep School Gentleman as far away as he could. I think that meeting Kurt (brave, fierce, mostly unselfconscious, unashamed to be who he was) put a chink in the Blaine's White Knight armor, and he tried to rally through it anyway, and constantly managed to screw it up, because he really wasn't good at being that person.

I think that Blaine went through a process of coming to terms with the fact that he wasn't and couldn't be perfect (Silly Love Songs, Blaine It On The Alcohol, Sexy), and at the same time Kurt was starting to see him for who he actually was, instead of the uniform he put on. So, with Kurt, the Dreamboat thing fell away, and he was just Blaine, who danced to Roxy Music in his undershirt and got drunk and mad and threw his hands up and walked away and then apologized.

But I still think that Blaine presents a front to the New Directions. It's gonna be a great year, I can feel it. We're all gonna go to Nationals! He's still trying to be somebody he isn't, until it breaks sometimes, and he's just Blaine, pushing Sam and boxing a punching bag. I think he's still breaking out of the self-defense habits that make him fake.