The most exciting moment of this episode for me ...

[wowbright]

... was when Kurt found out he was a finalist for NYADA and Burt said "Who's gonna tell Blaine? Let me do it!"

If your dad thinks about your boyfriend as quickly as you do when you get good news; if your dad is as excited as you are to share it - well, your boyfriend is part of the family. My headcanon about Blaine and the Hummels is canon.

The second most exciting moment of the episode for me was when I got to Skype to anxioussquirrel that Sebastian is "sexist, racist, homophobic, and cisgendernormative." He's not just asinine; he's a total ass.

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[wowbright.livejournal.com]

I read this right before going to bed and slept and woke up and realized I had misspoken. Since I only started seeing him as potentially irredeemable after 3.11, his homophobia (which was evident by 3.8) wasn't the clincher for me. It was his racism + sexism + everything else.

Even the fact that he intentionally injured someone, I may have seen as immature not-thinking-things-through or a sign of true pathology, if it weren't coupled with the other stuff.

But taken all together, when I woke up I realized that, from henceforth unless proven otherwise, I'll see Sebastian's story line as the fear of losing white male upper/upper-middle-class privilege. It may be an authentic fear, and a learned fear, but it's a fear I don't have a lot of sympathy with. And I say that as one of Sebastian Smythe's fellow WASPs.

On to Dalton being the Underworld - I've seen references to this but never spelled out clearly, so thank you for explaining it to me. (What's AIWNSG, by the way?) I will have to learn more about it before I form a true opinion, but I generally take literary metaphors/analogies as useful but not prescriptive - a place in a story may symbolize death and rebirth for one character or many characters, but not all. And writers often like to tweak the metaphor/analogy or completely flip it on its head somewhere in the story - that's what provides tension and conflict, because it's something other than what the audience has come to expect. But I may become a convert to Dalton/Hades yet! Like, if Sebastian's evilness dies there.

I know about the actor who plays Trent having appeared in an earlier episode as a McKinley student, though I haven't formed a strong opinion on whether they are the same person yet. But I'm confused about Matt - he left McKinley but I didn't think he'd transferred to Dalton (never saw him there). Did I miss something?