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Jonathon Coulton himself is relevant to many hackers due to to the intersection of his work with many tech/geek related interests including his authorship of nu

Jonathon Coulton himself is relevant to many hackers due to to the intersection of his work with many tech/geek related interests including his authorship of numerous themes to computer games, songs about being an unappreciated programmer, songs about the Mandelbrot Set, songs about passive aggressive T1000 helper robots, songs about doomed ST:TOS red shirts, etc. As for Glee itself -- I have nothing positive to say.

georgemcbay 14y ago
I'll come out and say it... I used to watch Glee with my girlfriend for the first two seasons and found it quite entertaining. At least it tried to do something different than be yet another three camera laugh track sitcom. I got tired of the stupid plotting and characters though, between the musical-chairs dating and the cheerleading coach alternating between evil bitch and nice person every other week, both I and my girlfriend just lost interest in the characters and stopped watching.
- MBCook 14y ago
  I enjoyed it for the first few seasons, I generally like musicals. I got tired of it too for basically the same reasons. I didn't know they had done this kind of thing before (or at least been accused, see the top comment). When I saw this story earlier today I played that video... I was amazed. It was a nearly perfect copy. That takes a lot of chutzpa. Someone put a comparison of the two songs up on SoundCloud (link is elsewhere in the thread) and it's nearly perfect. Same tune, same BPM, just a perfect copy.
- cheald 14y ago
  I enjoyed most of the first season, but then it took a hard left off into political preachin' and lost the quirky charm that made it fun to begin with.
zevyoura 14y ago
Coulton is also relevant as a very successful internet entrepreneur: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-internet-rock-star-tells-all http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...

georgemcbay 14y ago

I'll come out and say it... I used to watch Glee with my girlfriend for the first two seasons and found it quite entertaining. At least it tried to do something different than be yet another three camera laugh track sitcom. I got tired of the stupid plotting and characters though, between the musical-chairs dating and the cheerleading coach alternating between evil bitch and nice person every other week, both I and my girlfriend just lost interest in the characters and stopped watching.

MBCook 14y ago
I enjoyed it for the first few seasons, I generally like musicals. I got tired of it too for basically the same reasons. I didn't know they had done this kind of thing before (or at least been accused, see the top comment). When I saw this story earlier today I played that video... I was amazed. It was a nearly perfect copy. That takes a lot of chutzpa. Someone put a comparison of the two songs up on SoundCloud (link is elsewhere in the thread) and it's nearly perfect. Same tune, same BPM, just a perfect copy.
cheald 14y ago
I enjoyed most of the first season, but then it took a hard left off into political preachin' and lost the quirky charm that made it fun to begin with.

zevyoura 14y ago

Coulton is also relevant as a very successful internet entrepreneur: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-internet-rock-star-tells-all http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...