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crown_of_weeds was getting me all thinky about the wasting away of Kurtcedes, so I went back to Grilled Cheesus (S2Ep3) to see if that's where it all began. I was scrolling through to get to the Kurtcedes scenes, when up popped a still image of two hands, poking out from black trench-coats and clasped together. For a moment, I forgot where I was and thought it was Kurt and Blaine at Pavarotti's burial in Original Song (S2Ep16). Then I remembered where I was, hit play, and realized duh, it was Burt and little Kurt at Mom's funeral. The camera focuses on their hands, Burt's hand over and Kurt's hand under, and then Burt leads Kurt away.
In Original Song, the camera focuses on two hands, poking out from black trench-coats and clasped together, but this time they are Blaine and Kurt's, Blaine's hand over and Kurt's hand under, and they walk off the screen together, neither in the lead.
What immediately popped into my mind was (and please excuse the heterosexism of the quote and of the entire context of the quote; I didn't write the Bible): "a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24 and Matthew 19:5).
I tend to feel sorry for all those poor Bible writers who didn't understand the complexities of human sexuality, so I do them the favor of rephrasing what they wrote so they don't come off as too backward. As a result, how I've long heard this phrase is, "A person shall leave zir parents and hold fast to zir spouse, and they shall become one flesh." *
Contemplating the funeral scenes from Grilled Cheesus and Original Song, all I can think is, "Kurt is leaving his father to hold fast to Blaine." And then I wonder if that's what RIB and the cinematographers and editors were thinking and, holy shit, was that a promise - or at least an implication - that Kurt and Blaine are endgame?
I'm not saying that the Glee creators were thinking of the biblical quote per se - I'm sure this interpretation of the scenes as a leaving-the-nest story could also work without it. But I'm pretty sure they must have been thinking something when they paralleled these scenes this way. (And I become more convinced that leaving the nest is exactly what they had in mind when I think of all the bird references in the episode.)
What do you think?(Besides that I need to remove the bible-lenses from my brain?)
* For gay-positive takes on this verse, without gender-neutralization of the contents, see Ruth Loved Naomi as Adam Loved Eve or Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Mollenkott's Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?, pages 81-82. The latter may have saved my life or at least my sanity in high school, so I've got a soft spot for it, even if I'm not a Christian anymore.
crown_of_weeds was getting me all thinky about the wasting away of Kurtcedes, so I went back to Grilled Cheesus (S2Ep3) to see if that's where it all began. I was scrolling through to get to the Kurtcedes scenes, when up popped a still image of two hands, poking out from black trench-coats and clasped together. For a moment, I forgot where I was and thought it was Kurt and Blaine at Pavarotti's burial in Original Song (S2Ep16). Then I remembered where I was, hit play, and realized duh, it was Burt and little Kurt at Mom's funeral. The camera focuses on their hands, Burt's hand over and Kurt's hand under, and then Burt leads Kurt away.In Original Song, the camera focuses on two hands, poking out from black trench-coats and clasped together, but this time they are Blaine and Kurt's, Blaine's hand over and Kurt's hand under, and they walk off the screen together, neither in the lead.
What immediately popped into my mind was (and please excuse the heterosexism of the quote and of the entire context of the quote; I didn't write the Bible): "a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24 and Matthew 19:5).
I tend to feel sorry for all those poor Bible writers who didn't understand the complexities of human sexuality, so I do them the favor of rephrasing what they wrote so they don't come off as too backward. As a result, how I've long heard this phrase is, "A person shall leave zir parents and hold fast to zir spouse, and they shall become one flesh." *
Contemplating the funeral scenes from Grilled Cheesus and Original Song, all I can think is, "Kurt is leaving his father to hold fast to Blaine." And then I wonder if that's what RIB and the cinematographers and editors were thinking and, holy shit, was that a promise - or at least an implication - that Kurt and Blaine are endgame?
I'm not saying that the Glee creators were thinking of the biblical quote per se - I'm sure this interpretation of the scenes as a leaving-the-nest story could also work without it. But I'm pretty sure they must have been thinking something when they paralleled these scenes this way. (And I become more convinced that leaving the nest is exactly what they had in mind when I think of all the bird references in the episode.)
What do you think?
* For gay-positive takes on this verse, without gender-neutralization of the contents, see Ruth Loved Naomi as Adam Loved Eve or Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Mollenkott's Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?, pages 81-82. The latter may have saved my life or at least my sanity in high school, so I've got a soft spot for it, even if I'm not a Christian anymore.
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Date: 2012-01-10 04:47 pm (UTC)2. I just read it and I was flailing so much I didn't know what to say. Still don't. Just love that you wrote it.
3. Handfasting. I love that word.
4. And for another biblical reference (and your comment about capitalizing "biblical" struck me, because I used to work for an evangelical publisher and we capitalized "Bible" but lowercased "biblical" - which probably means we weren't evangelical enough, now that I think about it): Noticing that parallel last night, I felt like the scales had fallen of my eyes. I have a profoundly deeper respect for the writers now.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:04 pm (UTC)And almost all of my respect for the writers started, initially, with what they did with Klaine. And then it didn't make sense to me that they could do this one couple SO WELL and with SO MUCH THOUGHT and not spare any for the rest of their show. Turns out they have the sam approach all around.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 05:38 pm (UTC)Now I'm debating switching the other picture. Gah. Technology gives me too much power.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:35 pm (UTC)ME TOO ME TOO THIS THIS THIS.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:39 pm (UTC)It was AWESOME.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 05:33 pm (UTC)I think this makes perfect sense. Correct me if I'm wrong but: Bible is capitalized because it's the Bible, a proper noun, the name of the thing. Biblical is not capitalized because it's an adjective, relating to the Bible but not the Bible itself. God is capitalized because it's a proper noun/name, godly is not capitalized because it's an adjective. (A god and a bible would also not be capitalized.) Correct? I don't think the Bible is special in this regard, even though it's an inanimate object. If I name my computer the Gatekeeper, it also gets a capital.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:55 pm (UTC)Also, I think the reason "godly" isn't capitalized is that it's not actually referring to a specific monotheistic god who often goes by capital-G God. But I suppose it does sometimes, so, okay, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Date: 2012-01-10 05:57 pm (UTC)