I CAN'T GET NO QUADRILATERAL: I quit Glee long ago, in no small part because many of you pointed out that if I hated it so much, I shouldn't watch it. But I did happen to catch about 15 minutes or so last night while looking up from Bossypants. Those 15 minutes, in which a subset of Nude Erections lamented a financially troubled Athletic Decathlon team (open retcon; paradigmatic nontroversy, (tm) Spacewoman), confirmed that there was no need whatsoever to watch the rest of the episode. It did tickle me today to see a screen grab from that scene, with an error that I didn't notice. Hey, wouldn't, say, the Athletic Decathletes have noticed that? This kind of sloppiness only reinforces my belief that the show spends months putting together its elaborately produced musical numbers and then basically improvises the rest of the stuff at the last minute.
Also, I would never equate the actors in question, but as for the characters, aren't we at the point where we can recognize that Sue Sylvester = Ari Gold? Acid-tongued self-absorbed secondary character is the breakout role in the first season, garnering press and critical attention disproportionate to the role; producers follow up by increasing the quantity of screen time as marginal returns decrease and then dip into the red.
