needsmoregreen:mentaltortoise:penroseparticle:Like… there kept being little flashes of “This is all

needsmoregreen:mentaltortoise:penroseparticle:Like… there kept being little flashes of “This is all way more serious than we’re pretending it is” underneath the veneer of “TYPICAL FAMILIAL RESENTMENT HIJINKS LOL”. I can’t even… like, that is not a playful shove. At all. And Blaine doesn’t take it as one either.Yeah, this moment really stood out to me, too. There’s something hostile there. I guess we’re to assume it’s Cooper’s jealousy?I think this ties into what Bomer said about how Cooper and Blaine have the same need for validation (likely as result of the Anderson parents, who god I hate so very bad right now)—but it manifests itself differently. Cooper gets it with confidence and pride, and as soon as he starts getting that validation (“God it’s great to be back in the Midwest”), that gives way to this crazed hubris that controls him more than he realises. But no, there is nothing playful about this. There is childish about this, yes, but it also smacks of “this happened a fucking lot when they were kids and we didn’t think it was right showing a 15 year old knocking an adorable 5 year old to the floor, so have a 27 year old man pushing a 17 year old  in the middle of a shared performance* and you kind of get the idea”. There is enough force in that push that it suggests violence. (I mean if Blaine weren’t a fencer and a boxer…) (… Oh shit. “Your balance is completely off.” OUCH.)Anyway, everyone keeps assuming this whole Anderbros thing is just about jealousy. And, to an extent, it is—Blaine is jealous because Cooper gets the love of his friends, teachers, parents, his boyfriend more than he does and all he has to do is come waltzing in, and Blaine’s always been a better actor than him in the secretest way possible and he never gets any credit for that?But it’s also… there’s the suggestion of violence, there and during the STIUTK flashback, there’s so much humiliation and none of it gets noticed (and oh my god I hope people do not know how awful it feels to have a family member speak that negatively about you in front of everyone, really I do). And underneath all that there’s the fact that this is a coping mechanism to deal with an even worse cause of all of these issues, and that’s their parents.I don’t see two boys having some sibling rivalry/jealousy tiff, in this episode. I see two boys who had to learn that this is the way to survive—and unfortunately Coop came first, so he got the slightly easier road in some senses, and he got to get out and be a “survivor”, but Blaine is still fighting. I see Cooper realising just how much Blaine got messed up by it all, and how much he was messed up by it too. (I see two brothers who can’t stop seeing their father.)I mean there’s a reason that it’s Fighter he sings, and that Blaine boxes and fences  and this kind of push and shove happens. Because the war is just as internal as it is external.(I mean really, the problem in this episode becomes not the fact that Cooper’s a total dick, but that Cooper’s going to leave Blaine alone in this againwithout any thought for how the fuck Blaine’s going to deal.)*Duelling Simon Le Bon impressions. Not Duran Duran, just indirect fighting over who’s the lead singer. Mmm.Seconding all of this, especially the note about humiliation.The amount I can tell about people’s family situations by how they react to these two is a little discomforting. -- source link

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