WoW and Glee and zzzz

[thistlechaser]

This is going to be quicker than I'd like, because I'm exhausted.

Glee: I don't like Christmas specials and I hate Christmas music, so I knew going in the ep would likely be my least favorite. Liked:
- Kurt's song (what a voice!)
- Becky was amazingly cute (though I'm disliking the situations Sue puts her in -- she's a child that needs to learn right from wrong, not a dog or a doll of Sue's)
- That Britt believes in Santa is so cute (she's really one of my favorite characters)
- But best of all was Beiste's story of her childhood Christmas wish. If any character is ever, ever horrible to Beiste again, I shall hunt them down. Hunt down a fictional character, yes. That's how serious I am.

WoW: *insert screenshot here* The fact that my first experience in Cata's new areas was face-down, floating lifeless in the water made me laugh out loud. Welcome to how the last two FFXI missions started -- with you dead!

Did some questing on big Keen to get him the seahorse mount. Never, ever will I quest on him again. I HATE HATE HATE rogue in PvE. Leather armor, no self healing*, no pet... Fighting one single 80 mob brought me below half-life every time. Two or more killed me every time unless Vanish was cooled. It wasn't until I was almost done did I bitch about that and Morny pointed out that rogues were given a minor heal in the last patch. That was something, though far from enough. Plate-wearers, druids, mages, I didn't see a single class that had a hard time with one mob, and most of them were killing many at a time.

After that I did archaeology for, um, hours. Too many hours, but I have a hard time stopping.

Another cross-over between FFXI and WoW: In Hot&Cold on FFXI, the... whatever they were called, the spots with the chest, they were in fixed spots, it wasn't truly random. I quickly noticed that in Archaeology, too. There are a set number of goal spots, you can memorize where they are and that helps.

Hit 110 in archaeology. Leveling slows so much after 100. zzzz I mean, you go from a skillup nearly every dig to five skillups every... lord, my tired brain needs to do math... well, lot less skillups.

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Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

This is a reaction I'm seeing from a lot of people. I think that the cute/sweet/good moments are good enough to outweigh all the bad and keep us coming back? I hate the whole Fin/Rachael relationship stuff. Sue as the Grinch did nothing for me (though I seem to be in the minority on that). But things like Kurt's song (which, um, I hadn't realized was a date rape song until I saw it mentioned on my flist, there was even a line I missed, something like "what's in this drink?") and coach Beiste were enough to keep me coming back.

There are other things, things that surprise me. I'm not a Christmas person, I don't think kids should be fooled about Santa, but I liked that Brit still believed. How did that work? I think because the Artie/Brit relationship does. It's a small, subtle thing, but I think it makes the show better.

What are the worst parts for you? Seems like much Glee LJ rage is directed at Will (rightly so, in my opinion).

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Will; Rachel's bitchiness; Rachel/Finn; hypocrisy like trying to tackle bullying seriously but still trying to cling to the 'lighthearted fun' that was the running gag of the slushies in S1 that, which is actually a form of bullying (also things like being trapped in the port-a-potty or thrown in a dumpster being forms of bullying but being played for laughs this season, too).

I never really liked the show all that much, even S1; I hated Will's wife and the whole stupid drama with Quinn's baby and the Puck-Quinn-Finn triangle. The only reason I stuck with it then was Sue and Kurt (and Burt), but without Will's niceness balancing out Sue's meanness, it's just mean. (ETA) I like the whole concept of Coach Biester (sort of like why I like Burt as the accepting father), but they seem more intent on making her the butt of jokes or mishandling her, like Will kissing her a few episodes ago--him doing so did nothing to address her "never been kissed" admission, and him doing so as some kind of pity gesture makes it worse, not everything better, assholes.

(ETA): I haven't watched last night's episode yet, so can't speak to it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you said. The show is sort of... bipolar isn't the right word... It's trying to do two things at the same time, two things which cannot be done at the same time, so it's failing at both.

On one hand, it wants us not to think. The slushie-throwing, Sue marrying herself, things like that. They might be silly-funny things if nothing in the show were to be taken seriously. (Though I don't like the idea of bullying being a joking matter in any situation.)

On the other hand, it wants to deal with Very Serious Subjects. Kurt. Bullying. Burt's heart attack/religion.

Adding into that, the fanbase are two almost opposite groups... You have folks like us (who the show was originally targeted at), then you have high school aged kids (the music changed in S2 to include them).

I don't know how they will resolve this, or if they will even try (or if they're aware it's an issue at all). It might be easiest for them to just change to targeting the young people.

If nothing else, I hope Glee will inspire more musical shows. I haven't forgotten Cop Rock! One day we will have more shows like that!