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I will probably never be over this song.
The thing is, Brittany and Sam are two of the characters who are most emblematic of the “old” New Directions approach to problems. Brittany is not disabled — sure she has her medications for when she “feels like Eloise,” and she’s remarkably face blind and we always see her with Becky and she always treats Becky as an equal — but no, no, Brittany is not disabled at all. Just because she displays remarkably consistent traits and actions that sure do look like an actual disability, that doesn’t mean anything. She never says she’s disabled, therefore she can’t be. And Sam… Sam is dyslexic, and yeah it gives him some trouble sometimes, but it’s not really a big thing hey he loves comic books! And football! He’s just like you! The dyslexia isn’t really part of him. It doesn’t really matter.
And so they take these two characters, the not-disabled girl and the boy whose dyslexia is no big thing, and give them this song about pretending to be someone you’re not. The song that starts “Oh, make me over.” The song with lines like “When I wake up in my makeup.” And set the whole thing over a montage of the two of them being made over.
And sweet, sweet Brittany (oh, she’s so sweet, didn’t you know how sweet she is?) gets lines about being a walking study in demonology and also being full of poison.
And blond, all-American, ex-quarterback Sam gets lines about being a “might-have-been” and a “never was.”
Also the repeated emphasis on their bringing their “pound of flesh,” given Brittany’s “alien invasion” coming of age story and Sam’s story about losing his virginity because he felt it was expected of him. And that Sam calls himself a “hooker” before he gives himself any other name, and that Brittany asks, “Have you ever felt so used up as this?”
I also like that, before this episode, Brittany deliberately roleplays her own self-immolation (her imitation of meltdown Britney Spears), and that Sam is the only person to catch on to what she’s doing and to realize that it’s 100% deliberate.
I’m just saying — there is a point where the constant litany of “The show doesn’t know what it’s doing and this is all just an accident” starts to read a whole lot like denial, you know?
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I will probably never be over this song.
The thing is, Brittany and Sam are two of the characters who are most emblematic of the “old” New Directions approach to problems. Brittany is not disabled — sure she has her medications for when she “feels like Eloise,” and she’s remarkably face blind and we always see her with Becky and she always treats Becky as an equal — but no, no, Brittany is not disabled at all. Just because she displays remarkably consistent traits and actions that sure do look like an actual disability, that doesn’t mean anything. She never says she’s disabled, therefore she can’t be. And Sam… Sam is dyslexic, and yeah it gives him some trouble sometimes, but it’s not really a big thing hey he loves comic books! And football! He’s just like you! The dyslexia isn’t really part of him. It doesn’t really matter.
And so they take these two characters, the not-disabled girl and the boy whose dyslexia is no big thing, and give them this song about pretending to be someone you’re not. The song that starts “Oh, make me over.” The song with lines like “When I wake up in my makeup.” And set the whole thing over a montage of the two of them being made over.
And sweet, sweet Brittany (oh, she’s so sweet, didn’t you know how sweet she is?) gets lines about being a walking study in demonology and also being full of poison.
And blond, all-American, ex-quarterback Sam gets lines about being a “might-have-been” and a “never was.”
Also the repeated emphasis on their bringing their “pound of flesh,” given Brittany’s “alien invasion” coming of age story and Sam’s story about losing his virginity because he felt it was expected of him. And that Sam calls himself a “hooker” before he gives himself any other name, and that Brittany asks, “Have you ever felt so used up as this?”
I also like that, before this episode, Brittany deliberately roleplays her own self-immolation (her imitation of meltdown Britney Spears), and that Sam is the only person to catch on to what she’s doing and to realize that it’s 100% deliberate.
I’m just saying — there is a point where the constant litany of “The show doesn’t know what it’s doing and this is all just an accident” starts to read a whole lot like denial, you know?
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