Review: "Glee; Sweet Dreams" (S. 4/ Ep. 19 2013) "Comes Back To The High Notes"

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By: Jeff Lake

Plant an L to your forehead Honest Gleeks and be prepared. This is not a dream. This is just another Honest View.


The episode begins with Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) returning after punching Rachael's (Lea Michelle) jiggalo boyfriend several episodes ago and quitting the Glee club after a fight with William Shuester (Matthew Morrison). He has enrolled in college, somehow bunking with his best friend, Puck (Mark Salling), who is not even in college. As Finn is explaining his decision to be in school, kind of trippy scenes of the campus doing the Harlem Shake give the episode a humorous vibe setting the stage with much needed lighter setting with last week's gun scare episode.


Back at McKinley, the cast has gone a little nuts. Sam (Chord Overstreet) finds himself having split personality disorder, Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) has a new tendency to be dressing steam-punk, and Unique (Alex Newell) has started taking birth control pills even though she is really a he. Marley (Melissa Benoist) is coming out of her shell now to reveal to the club all the original songs she mentioned in the previous episode that she wrote.


Except for one tiny problem. Mr. Shue has taken a dose of the crazy pills himself. The theme of this year's regionals is revealed to be dreams, which he takes quite literally choosing only songs that have the word dream in it, including a song the glee club did the previous year. Will kind of losing his mind in this episode really throws a hardcore fan of the show off because this feels like the second or third time Will forgets that he is not a dictator, but a friend and teacher to these kids.

Will tries to make amends with Finn, who is shown partying hard with Puck down the halls of Lima University. Finn declines the apology leaving Will speechless before the scene fades away.
Rachael is preparing for her audition for the revival of Funny Girl, originally starring her idol Barbara Streisand. This scene is great in my mind because one of my favorite guest stars, Idina Menzel (Rent), reprises her role as Rachael's mom Shelby to sing Next to Me by Emeli Sandé. Shelby tells Rachael that she cannot invoke her inner Streisand and that she needs to find her own uniqueness to audition with.

(Next to Me performed by the mother-daughter duo)
Finn and Puck are hired by Lima University's fraternity after the stereo breaks to save the party. The two join the fraternity, despite Puck still not being actually enrolled at L.U.

(Finn and Puck fight for there right to party as they cover (You Gotta Fight) For Your Right (To Party) by The Beastie Boys.)


Marley calls a secret meeting between Blaine (Darren Criss), Sam, and Unique to sing one of her original songs. Glee spurts out these original pieces of music once in awhile and usually they are amazing. You Have More Friends Than You Know perhaps lack in quality is done on purpose to kind of represent the fact that Marley is less experienced than the others, but she has the potential to be a real song writer.

(You Have More Friends Than You Know is one of two original songs written by Marley who is striving to show off her talent.)


Will overhears the cast singing and re-realizes that he needs to listen to his students because this is their show, not his. He should not be taking any anger he feels on them.
Finn and Rachael have a short, heart to heart about her audition and her song choice for it. Finn tells her to sing something that has a lot of meaning to her. Which leads to the most nostalgic Glee cover ever: Don't Stop Believin' originally by Journey.

(Don't Stop Believing' returns to Glee, as Rachael invokes the happiness her friends gave her and sings an almost solo version of Glee's mascot song as she auditions for her role in Funny Girl).


After Puck finds out Finn skipped his first test, he sits him down and tells him to step up to become the best teacher Finn can become. Puck still does not enroll in classes but decides to stay in the dorm to push Finn and write his screenplay.


Will apologizes for his actions to everyone. He even asks Marley to teach them her original songs so that they can sing the songs at regionals, much to the newcomer's glee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLT0WLOrebo


(Outcast, an original song written by Marley to end the episode on the same happy note that it started off on.)


Our Honest View gives, Glee; Sweet Dreams S. 4/Ep. 18 a 8.5 out of 10. For filling me up with the nostalgia of what makes Glee, well Glee. The reoccurring joke of Sam switching between personalities surprisingly never got old. This episode unfortunately is really lacking in actually advancing in the plot of Ryder's secret admirer, a plot point that everyone just wants to see end. While at the same time Sweet Dreams does an excellent job at reminding everyone that Glee has some underlining life lessons that really should not be ignored. Even if this is the third time this lesson has been done.


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Review: "Bioshock Infinte" (2013) "The Skies The Limit AND Some."

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Bioshock Infinite is the third installment to the very well received Bioshock games. Based on the critical acclaimed series System Shock, a pc game series that lead. These game series lead to the inspiration of Bioshock. This game is a

By: Tyler Comp

prequel to the first two taking place in 1912 while the other Bioshock games took place in the 1960s. 

 You play as Booker Dewitt a man who has seen his fair share of violence and horror. He seems to have found himself between a rock and a hard place. Booker is in financial debt and he is tasked with only one option to get out of it, find the girl Elizabeth and bring her to New York. 

 The Game starts off with a wonderful throw back to the first game with Booker traveling to what looks like the lighthouse in the first Bioshock and getting rocketed up into Columbia in one of the few most epic and beautiful moments I have seen in a game. 

 The thing that stands out in this game more so than in the other Bioshocks is the sense that people once lived there. In Bioshock one and two you stumble upon Rapture after this horrible event has befallen it. In Infinite you live it; you get to see people and children going about their everyday lives in one of the most beautiful game cities I have ever seen. This gives what happens here more weight and immersion as you see civilians running away boarding airships trying their best to escape the chaos making the city feel alive even after the city is deserted.

 Another edition to the game that has never been in a Bioshock game is your AI companion Elizabeth who will travel with you throughout Columbia, and save your life more times than you can count. She is a wonderful edition to the game and her intelligence is on par with Elena and Chloe from the Uncharted games. 

What makes her so amazing is that like Elena and Chloe you do not have to watch out for her and that she is not a hindrance but an asset. Elizabeth has the ability to scavenge around the battle field refilling your magic, health, and ammo. A side note you can collect alcohol and cigarettes to recover health this game really sticks to the roots of the time period. Especailly for racial tensions even in a Utopia such as Columbia. 

She can also open tears in the world which are turrets, cover, grappling hooks, or friendly robots. Elizabeth is also never just a side character in fact she even steals the show a couple of times. 

While Elizabeth is young and naive, Booker has experienced the horrors of the world and the first time you have to defend Elizabeth from attackers it shows how different their two worlds really are. Also without Elizabeth, Booker’s character would be well rather bland we aren’t playing as a Booker in his early years before he becomes the cold hardened killer that he is rather we are playing his redemption.   

These two characters feed off each other and grow because of the time they spend together, Booker begins to see Elizabeth as more than just a pay check and begins to care about her safety and happiness, while Elizabeth begins to learn just what she has to do to stop the Prophet from carrying out his evil plans.  

Now time to get away from the characters and story I don’t want to spoil all the amazing moments you will share with her now onto the gameplay. I never thought a controller would need more buttons while the controls are not bad they loaded too much onto the controllers. 

Your firearms are tagged on to R1 to fire and R2 to switch while your magic is tagged to L1 and L2 to switch. While this is fine when the enemies are up close and personal once you have to take them out from a distance you have to click in the right analog stick R3 to look down your sights and well it is rather clunky and in fact you will never use it because it is better to spray and pray than to try and relearn what every fps has taught us over the years.This is a minor issue with the game which is surprising that it's not on the Wii U, using the game tablet would have made the massive amounts of controls easier.

Other than that everything else is amazing and it has never felt so good to ride around on those rails using your sky hook knocking people off and performing brutal melee kills on the foes below you. 

 Another edition to this game are a few very interesting and brutally hard new enemies that you have to find creative ways to deal with.  These new enemies range from fellow magic users who you have to use their opposite to stun lock them while you shoot them. To robot George Washingtons with miniguns to the Handymen and last are the Silent Boys who alert enemies to your location. This game has a strong resemblance to Dishonored in terms of fighting and choices on how to play the game.

 Out of all these new enemies your will face and crush under your boot no one got the blood pumping like the Handymen these guys are truly a force to be reckoned with, with the speed and agility of Spiderman, and the power of a Big Daddy. They bring certain exhilaration and yes frustration to the battlefield as you dip and weave trying to dodge their attacks as these tortured souls try their best to kill you.  

Our Honest View gives Bioshock Infinite 10/10. This is probably one of the most enjoyable and impressive Bioshock games I have played proving that you can revitalize a series and bring new life into it. With the excellent story and the wonderful interaction between Booker and Elizabeth creating a great masterpiece that everyone should be playing right now! Be sure not to rush through this game but to take it slow and enjoy every moment as the attention to detail will blow you away.

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