Oh wow. Oh wow oh wow. I never throught that Glee could ever move below the comedic surface that brings it so much success. But it has. And it just did. And now I have realised that it is not the comedy or the humour that the characters bring to the show with the songs they sing and the stereotypes they hold that brings the show so much success - it is the way they so effectively capture every day issues and teenage feelings and portray them in a way that gives so many people, feeling the exact same thing, hope and the promise that they are not alone. So many fans of the show can relate to whatever it is the characters are going through and none of this was proved seriously until the episode, 'Sexy', was aired.
The episode features a couple of scenes with Brittany and Santana disscussing their friendship with one another and its not until Holly Holiday returns that Santana finally allows herself to admit not just to her friend but to herself that she has feelings for Brittany. I have always been one for wearing my heart on my sleeve when it comes to emotion and this episode was no different. Half way through, Santana sings 'Landslide' to Brittany, with the help of Holly. During the whole song, Santana finds it hard to keep her tears inside and they eventually tumble out of her and you can almost feel the relief she experiences at that moment in time. The second most touching scene between the two was the scene where Santana full on confides in Brittany and opens up about what she is feeling. ("What I realised is why I'm such a bitch all the time. I'm a bitch because I'm angry. I'm angry because I have all of these feelings. Feelings for you which I'm afraid to deal with because I'm afraid of dealing with the consequences. I wanna be with you but I'm afraid of the talks, the looks...I'm so afraid of what everyone will say behind my back. Still, I have to accept that I love you. I love YOU and I dont wanna be with Sam, or Finn, any of those other guys. I just want you. Please say you love me back. Please.") For Santana, these words are seriously hard to speak - she never opens up about anything and always uses her defensive attitude to aviod accepting who she is.
I have so much respect for Glee now. I think it is so refreshing and so good of them to explore not only gay love but lesbian love. As a society, we are SO wary of using that word. We avoid it as much as we can because it seems that being a gay girl is far more 'wrong' than being a gay boy. Male gays are far more accepted, which is fantastic, but I think what Glee proves to everyone, is that they are not afraid to step on the dogdy ground that is female gay love. As Pink once said, 'You can't move mountains just by whispering at them'. And what was ever better about this episode is the way teenage girl's feelings were depicted. Santana is ovbiously in so much pain; she has no idea how to react to the feelings she is experiencing, let alone express them. And that's when mistakes are made because we are not in control of them and she reacts defensively because she can be in control of that instead. I love how much hope this will bring to the teenage girls who are also going through what Santana is going through. Apparently, so many have said that the episode helped them come out and I think that is such a positive thing. We can't dodge around the subject anymore - it is there, in front of us and all around us, as much as grass is around cows. It's what's creating the new generation and we have to embrace it and try and accept everything that young people feel nowadays. Because if you are going through what Santana is going through, then I think it must be one of the hardest experiences ever. And I feel for all who are going through it and they all need to know that it doesn't matter what everyone thinks you are, it is actually who you are. And I don't think it matters why you feel what you do, because you do and you can't change it, I think it matters more about what you feel and who you feel for. Who cares if they're the same sex or not? If you care for them and if you love them, that's all that matters. Love is such a messed around and played with word (for lack of other ways to describe it) that it makes it so much harder for people to admit stuff to themselves and accept themselves for who they are and what they feel. You can love anyone and anything and this has to be known. And it has to be accepted.
And all credit to Naya Rivera for her completely amazing and honest portrayl of someone feeling the things Santana is feeling. If not for her, I don't believe the episode would have had nearly the same effect as it has done. It was so touching and so truthful. She played it so beautifully that I even felt her pain and I am not even gay. I think that her and Brittany should sing Pink's 'Perfect' in Season 3 because Santana needs to know that she is perfect and that the whole world adores her.
The world would be a terrible place if not for Glee and their amazingness. Thanks to them, we have characters like Santana and Kurt, and we have songs like Get It Right and Loser Like Me. What tunes. They have such powerful messages, too. I hope Brittana become one officially very soon because I think they world would benefit from it and after all, they are soulmates.
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