So, I've got a bit of a confession, but I'm a huge Glee fan, a "Gleek" if you will...
I bought Kari their 2 cds for Christmas last year and I gotta admit, I was as excited about it as she was.
There aren't a lot of tv shows that Kari and I watch together, we have a couple of favorites, i.e. we watched the Unit, The Office, and I'm sure there are a couple more, but "Glee" was one show that we made a point to watch together.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the Unit and I love when big things get blown up and there's blood and bombs, etc. but there's something different about this show.
Ryan Murphy, the show's creator, I still can't believe he wrote Nip/Tuck, that show was messed up... but he said that there was no family shows on tv anymore and this is one that your whole family could sit down and watch together. I'll never forget back in May when we were on vacation w/ my in-laws that we all sat down and watched it together, short of the Olympics or curling, there's not too many shows that I can remember doing that to.
I remember there was an episode where they had deaf people singing and signing to John Lennon's "Imagine" and then the cast joins in too... I still get goosebumps watching it and listening to it.
I think that's the sign of a really good show, where you get so engaged that it taps into your emotions b/c then you get invested in it and you start to care about the characters, you want to see the underdog persevere, the antagonist get theirs, and the guy gets the girl. I have to laugh when you start to root for the characters, or in the opposite direction, that's one of the things I loved about the Sopranos, when you hated a character, you knew they were going to get whacked eventually, minus Tony's sister, she lived and it drove me nuts, I wanted her to leave w/in the 1st 2 episodes of watching it... Ah well, can't win 'em all.
I think about the Sopranos alot too, also one of my favorite shows, and I just now realized how both them incorporate a lot of music, even some of the best scenes of Alias did that too...
(I was just getting ready to hit save and I remembered how some of my favorite Scubs scenes were music moments...I'll never forget hearing "Hey Ya" at the Janitor's wedding and the shock when I found out it was OutKast.)
So, I wonder if adding a score the way to do it? I know the best funeral scene I think I ever seen was in the Watchmen when they started playing "Sound of Silence," there was a goosebump scene for sure...
Maybe music is the the answer after all, the minute you want to add that extra element, it's a whole different dynamic, take Psycho w/o the strings and it just got a whole lot less interesting...
Yesterday was 2/3, got to write/blog but no walk, rained all day :-(
The pic of the day is from my last night at my old office before we moved downtown, I loved that desk, a lot of really awesome people used to work w/ who have since moved onto other jobs and cities...Plus, Kari used to work there too, it was only 5 min. from our place, etc. So yeah, a lot of memories from the 3 years we were there...
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