SongsFromASuitcase / GLEE S04E18 WATCH PARTY

Honestly, with all the times that Sue has physically handled the students over the years, she should have been fired a loooong time ago!

Lucile Byrd

2024-09-28 18:34:44 +0000 UTC

I’m just here now in 2024 watching these reactions bc I love glee and just subbed to Patreon and I was at the Kansas City parade Super Bowl shooting and let me just say I broke down when I saw my favorite characters in fear because that’s exactly how it felt to be in a situation like that.

Reese

2024-03-26 05:36:22 +0000 UTC

We started doing school shooter drills I think in middle school. I was in 9th grade when this episode premiered. School shootings were definitely a thing but its a lot more frequent since I graduated. Like when I went to school it wasn't something on my mind, I can only imagine what kids feel nowadays though. Heck I think about shootings whenever I go to a grocery store, I always check the exits and scope out the parking lot before I even enter the store I try to avoid it at its busiest. And its so sad that-that's where we're at here in the states.

Hayleigh Sato

2024-02-26 00:22:16 +0000 UTC

I feel the same as someone from the UK. We sadly have had problems with knife crime in gangs or between kids fighting, but there's only so much damage you can do with a knife compared to a gun. I would have no idea where to start trying to access a gun, and most people I know have never held or seen one (except certain police officers). The idea of my niece and nephew having to practise gun drills in school makes my blood run cold. There's a ton of different problems all contributing to school shootings in the US, but if they want to keep the right to own a gun they need to make it a hell of a lot harder to get hold of one and what kinds. The problem is that people who are being bullied or have the impulse to kill can find a gun at home, or go to a gun shop and pick one up fairly easily, and with the internet they can find groups of people who will encourage those thoughts rather than them getting the help they need. I can't understand why gun owners are so militant about their rights when children are being murdered in school and I never will, but there will surely have to come a point where the government does it for them. Then again, there have been school shootings for centuries and nothing has changed yet.

Romy

2023-05-08 22:26:14 +0000 UTC

I was fortunate enough that school shootings were never really part of my childhood. I think Columbine happened freshman year? It was obviously horrifying but it felt like just this extreme isolated event. Now you have kids who have never not had to worry about them. It's awful.. I do not understand how, as communities and a country we cannot agree on even the most basic common sense laws. I mean yes I want to protect him rights to a degree, but there needs to be way more common sense measures in place. I look at how NZ responded to their mass shooting a few years ago, and while it gives me hope for humanity... it just disheartens me to see how awful we handle things in the US. The actors all did amazing, but the one that really stood out for me was Brittany. It's hard enough to imagine being in a situation like that, but to be alone with no way to communicate with anyone. My heart was definitely racing in her scenes. One detail in the room with everyone that really stood out to me was the metronome in the middle of the floor still going. I feel like that soft ticking would just increase the tension so much. It was awful to see just how helpless the situation can be. Sam wanting to go get Brittany, but having to realize he might be trading her life for everyone's. The person trying to get in the room and not knowing if it was someone seeking help or am active shooter. I wish they had time to explore more of Tina's situation too. I'm not going to be able to find it, but a few months ago I read an article about survivors of early school shootings. One of the things that stood out was how many of them said they didn't seek mental health help bc they felt like they didn't have it as bad as someone who got hurt, or was in a closer room, etc. And how they regretted it bc it's still stuck a trauma and how you handle and work on recovery isn't the same for everyone. It's just heartbreaking. Especially when, in some cases, you see people feeling guilty that their friends went through that and they didn't. It infuriates me that our general neglect of mental health and hustle culture has turned out so shitty. Personally, I would love a video of the things you do for your own mental health and resources.

ashinscribbleland

2023-05-07 05:24:56 +0000 UTC

For someone not living in the US, this is just a thing that's totally incomprehensible. Not only the school shootings but the total lack of action. As a German, it NEVER crossed my mind to own a gun nor do I know someone who does. And I do actually think that the rules in Germany should be even stricter and that noone privatly needs to own a gun. Period. I don't think it's (only) a mental health issue but the lack of gun restriction. We do have mental health issues in Germany too and way too many people with problems for way too less help but mass shootings are almost unheard of here and I credit this mostly to our lack of guns and therefor lack of tragic normalcy of gun related incidents. Because I think the horror lessens with each incident, the masses just grow numb. I guess this gun rights topic is just one of the things that's culturally so foreign to me that I will probably never be able to grasp the hold it has on the US.

Viola.S1

2023-04-29 18:19:51 +0000 UTC

On a serious note: I go to a college that is connected to the recent Louisville Community College shooting in Kentucky and the day after the school system sent out an email talking about how if you needed to take time to deal with the emotions you had from the shooting to do so. It shows just how impactful these shooting can be since it was enough reach a college all the way on the other side of the state. It sucks having to have those emails and alerts systems in place that tell you to stay away from your college in case there is a shooter. I hate having fear just going to class and it makes me so mad to hear people, especially these politicians, saying “thoughts and prayers” without actually doing anything to help with the problem because they don’t want to give up there military rifles that they shouldn’t have had the chance to get in the first place. I remember the first real lockdown we had, luckily it wasn’t for a shooter, but everyone had though that it was just a drill that we had at random and so we weren’t taking it too seriously. When our teacher got off the phone with the front office and told us that it was real, I’ll never forget the fear that I felt in that moment. On a much less serious note: I don’t think I’ve met anyone who seriously like Mr. Schue. It was really just a matter of time until you started getting to that same point lol. But I will say this, if you’re still on the fence about him, just wait until the Blurred Lines episode. And also I am also very upset that they made Sam dumber after the 2nd season. I really don’t know what the point was, he was already kind of a himbo before. They really didn’t need to made him the dumb character. They did the same thing the Ariana Grandes character on Victorious, every season she would just get dumber.

Gigi

2023-04-28 04:48:44 +0000 UTC

Yeah, they usually either had us practice the lockdown portion or the escaping portion. It would always depend on where they said the "shooter" was located over the PA system. If they were close to you and your classroom, the teacher would barricade the doors, and if they were on the opposite side of the school, you would quietly line up and make a quick escape through the nearest exit. They would do it during different classes and change up the "shooter's" location each time so we would know where to go and what to do no matter where you were in the school. They would even have our teachers show us presentations a few times a year that contained the rules of what we were to do if such an event occurred. The things they went over in the presentations usually consisted of the same stuff. If you were on lockdown, you needed to lock and barricade the doors, shut off all the lights, close all of the blinds, and pile up whatever furniture you would be able to in front of the door. If you were escaping, there are 3-4 separate checkpoints you can retreat to. It's incredibly sad to think about how it all just felt incredibly normal for both me and my peers, but that's the reality of living and attending school in the U.S.

Gabi Rajic

2023-04-26 21:02:29 +0000 UTC

There's a little bit in the next episode but not much and it gets dropped after that

Jay Johnston

2023-04-26 10:29:54 +0000 UTC

This is a reality that won’t come true though.

Georgia Beauchemin

2023-04-25 15:29:07 +0000 UTC

the Supreme Court needs to be liberal.

Georgia Beauchemin

2023-04-25 15:27:49 +0000 UTC

I hate to say it but I think the only that things will change is if Republican lawmakers lose. Democrats need 60 votes in the Senate, 218 in the House and the presidency.

Georgia Beauchemin

2023-04-25 15:26:33 +0000 UTC