I agree that Blaine is awkward during that scene, but I don't think it's inappropriate for him to be, so I'll give Darren the benefit of the doubt and assume it's intentional. I'm nice like that. Going to a pet funeral with your brand new boyfriend right after losing a big competition would be pretty awkward. And he made a joke about the GAP to lighten the mood. EVEN MORE AWKWARD. Plus I'm pretty sure the sun was in their eyes.
The first time I saw it, I worried that Kurt was thinking, 'No, actually, having you is not better than going to Nationals, and fuck am I sorry to have made you fall in love with me before I realized that, OMG you're so clingy, yeah, I'm just gonna go back to McKinley now and no, we will not be continuing this relationship afterward.'
LOL BWAHAHAHA. The first time I saw it, I didn't have exactly that reaction, but I remember feeling like Kurt might have been humoring Blaine a bit. I don't know why, but this time I felt like Kurt's smile was genuine, and Blaine's words actually helped. Maybe it's because I know they stay together long-term.
Yeah, I don't think that they're saying Blaine is like Burt at all (which would be creeeeeeeepy, at least to me, and really not reflect their characters), or even that he's replacing him in Kurt's heart (though I might not have been clear about it above).
I don't think it would be creepy necessarily. Kurt loves Burt to bits, and Burt has many excellent qualities. In many ways, Freud was a crack addict, but I think he was onto something with the idea that people often seek out the same positive traits in their partners that they enjoyed in the people they grew up with. But I definitely don't feel like the show has gone to any effort to show similarities between Blaine and Burt. The replacing thing only came to mind because Blaine was comforting Kurt at Pavarotti's funeral and Burt wasn't there. And because of the similarities you pointed out between the handholding shots.
Also I'm a little shocked that there even are similarities. It's like they have continuity or something. I just looked it up, and those two episodes have different directors, but of course the writers and crew and cinematographer and everything were the same throughout the season. So somebody involved was like "Funeral! We've done this before! Lets do a handholding thing again, for the parallels." Go them!
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The first time I saw it, I worried that Kurt was thinking, 'No, actually, having you is not better than going to Nationals, and fuck am I sorry to have made you fall in love with me before I realized that, OMG you're so clingy, yeah, I'm just gonna go back to McKinley now and no, we will not be continuing this relationship afterward.'
LOL BWAHAHAHA. The first time I saw it, I didn't have exactly that reaction, but I remember feeling like Kurt might have been humoring Blaine a bit. I don't know why, but this time I felt like Kurt's smile was genuine, and Blaine's words actually helped. Maybe it's because I know they stay together long-term.
Yeah, I don't think that they're saying Blaine is like Burt at all (which would be creeeeeeeepy, at least to me, and really not reflect their characters), or even that he's replacing him in Kurt's heart (though I might not have been clear about it above).
I don't think it would be creepy necessarily. Kurt loves Burt to bits, and Burt has many excellent qualities. In many ways, Freud was a crack addict, but I think he was onto something with the idea that people often seek out the same positive traits in their partners that they enjoyed in the people they grew up with. But I definitely don't feel like the show has gone to any effort to show similarities between Blaine and Burt. The replacing thing only came to mind because Blaine was comforting Kurt at Pavarotti's funeral and Burt wasn't there. And because of the similarities you pointed out between the handholding shots.
Also I'm a little shocked that there even are similarities. It's like they have continuity or something. I just looked it up, and those two episodes have different directors, but of course the writers and crew and cinematographer and everything were the same throughout the season. So somebody involved was like "Funeral! We've done this before! Lets do a handholding thing again, for the parallels." Go them!