#kurt deserves to have friends outside of nd

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

5x10 - Trio

Hold On - New Directions seniors, One Three Hill, Rachel Berry, and Santana Lopez

[helenus-secondsight]

(This got long, sorry!)

The thing that bugs me about that Kurt stuff in S6 is that... I actually quite like S6 as a whole, outside of that.

It feels like the most focussed the show has been since Season 1. They refocussed on McKinley. Yes, Dalton and Carmel appear too, but they're handled okay in my book...

The overall narrative theme of the season is about rebuilding and about finding a new path when your old options suddenly close to you, and they explore that with all of the main characters... Will having to move on from McKinley; Rachel having to find herself again after her show bombed; Blaine going back to his roots to re-find his passion and reset after the breakup and subsequent drop-out; Beiste finding himself again after coming out...

The ones they REALLY dropped the ball on, for me, are Sam and Kurt.

Sam could have had a GREAT arc in Season 6. We see him make the decision to leave modelling in 5x20, and then suddenly in 6x01 he's assistant coach... and in 6x13 he takes over New Directions. Like, there could have been a good STORY there. That's the story I'm currently writing a fic about, because Glee treated Sam as a prop in S6.

But Kurt... I don't necessarily disagree with the choice to bring him back to Lima. I think he'd have thrived better in New York (finding new queer friends, reconnecting with Adam, having fun with Elliott and Dani...) but there are reasons to put him in Lima to refocus on himself that make sense to me... There's a story you could tell there around him going back to his roots, to refind his passion outside of a relationship, or at least helping his friends find their next steps... But Kurt was instead a prop for the Klaine storyline. Kurt and Sam were BOTH props for the Rachel storyline.

And it irks me, because there is some LEGITIMATELY good writing in Season 6. Not necessarily in the dialogue, but so many moments and entire episodes where Glee recaptured the heart of S1, in terms of its narrative parallels and theming:

- The "Everything falls down, but it's about how you rebuild" theme in 6x01 that's explored mostly through Rachel, but is paralleled in Blaine, Will, Sam, and LeRoy... and eventually Kurt and Karofsky at the end of the episode...

- The "transitioning" metaphor in 6x07 is a LITTLE stretched, but I think it still works. If it weren't for the fact it was SO focussed on Rachel, at the expense of everyone else, that theming could easily have been applied to everyone too.

Even the overall plot. Outside of the personal stuff with Rachel or Blaine or Kurt or Sam or Will or Sheldon... the actual New Directions and Warblers plots parallel this "how do we rebuild" plot, and it's a pretty clear knock-off of the 1a "We need more members for Sectionals" stuff, but I think it works.

Homecoming isn't a great episode on the whole, but I LIKE it still. I like how 6x01-2 make a decent two-part première and the way 6x02 ends with that intercut between the alumni and the New New Directions... I like the symbolic handing of the baton and celebration of community that it has. The "Glee club brought us all together" stuff is a bit trite and stretches disbelief a little... but it's also just the core thesis of the show, and I can forgive it a little of that.

I think its because everything seemed to trail back to Rachel's success somehow, which made kurt and Sam into props, which was pretty awful.

Kurt seemed to be doing well at nyada, and didn't have much to benefit from returning home and starting again, of course other than reuniting with blaine. but that didn't quite fit in with the rest of the characters plotlines, with Rachel's busted tv show, and Blaine's dropping out of nyada. perhaps thats why he was almost treated expendably, by rachel.

Sam, who had dropped his modelling career basically wasn't given anything new to work with, it was literally just Finn's s4 job but *make it sports* they didn't give him a storyline at all basically. he had no purpose other than to be an accessory to rachel. he's a lovely character, who has a good personality and deserved something to happen to him, in terms of plot.

the overall story point of the season used a good message, but once again ruined the continuity of the show and most characters developement in favour of rachel having everything handed to her. the writers gave themselves an opportunity to have her learn from her mistakes and try to become a better person, reflecting on those times where she could've done better, but no.

the parralles between nnd and nd make for it to be entertaining, but I don't think that the new characters filled the hole that was the 'usual' dynamic,not that season 5 was a great example of it.

I think season 6 was a decent TV season, just not in the way that people expected it to go. also the actual plot lines of the characters weren't consequential l, besides Rachel's, which makes me annoyed. it had a rushed pace, which isn't unlike earlier glee, but was still entertaining in the first sense.

[red-shining-sun-blog]

[character info]

Name: Joachim Albrecht Dollman Dreyser

Rank: Hauptmann (Captain)

S/NO: L0010

Branch: Luftwaffe

Sub-branch: Fallschirmjager

DOB: 22 May, 1911

DOD: 10-12 August, 1944

LOB: Ingolstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire

LOD: Laboratories near Breslau, Third German Reich (Wroclaw, Poland)

Height: 6'1”

Weight: 220lb

Eyes: Green (originally), Red

Hair: Dark brown

Awards:

-Knight's Cross w/ Oak Leaves

[For showing gallantry in combat against Allied forces in Normandy. His unit lost less than five soldiers where the enemy lost dozens, stalling an Allied advance through the Bocage – July 1944]

-Iron Cross First Class

[For effectively leading an assault on a British AAA battery and command post during the Battle of Crete, allowing German aircraft to approach Maleme field - 1941]

-Iron Cross Second Class

[For risking his life to save his men during the Battle of Eben-Emael during a glider crash - 1940]

-Military Honor Roll Clasp

[For leading his troops to victory against American troops outside of Essen - 1945]

-Wehrmacht Long Service Award (4 years x2)

-Anschluβ Medal

-Luftwaffe Paratrooper Badge

-Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe

-Tank Destruction Badge (Silver)

-Wound Badge (Black)

-Wound Badge (Silver)

-Narvik Shield

-Hellsing Unit Patch

Cuffs:

-Luftwaffe Afrika Cuff

-Kreta Cuff

-SS-Brandenburg Cuff

-Engeland 1999 Cuff

Joachim Albrecht Dollman Dreyser was born in Ingolstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Empire in May of 1911. In his house lived his father, Erich; his mother, Anna; his older brother, Gerhard; his younger sister, Ursula; and the housemaid, Ingrid. His family on his mother's side were artisans while on his father's side were soldiers and officers. Much of his longer free time as a child was spend at his Aunt Emilia's manor in the Tirol Mountains of Austria. When the Great War broke out in 1914, the majority of the males in his family were sent off to war. From the Versailles Treaty onwards, his family life was extremely awful as the German economy was ruined by the terms of the treaty.

In the later period of the 1930s Joachim graduated college, where afterwards he attended the Kriegsschule in Munich in 1938. Graduating the Kriegsschule in the early part of the year, he was assigned as an officer to an infantry unit in April 1938. He was a participant of the annexation of Austria in May of 1938, spending his 27th birthday at his aunt's house.

In 1939, he attended several airborne exercises with a childhood friend, Erich Rohrmann-Gotha. Gotha, a Luftwaffe pilot, tried to convince his dear friend for years to become a pilot or at least a member of the Luftwaffe. He visited British and Soviet airborne demonstrations, finding it miraculous and utterly insane that a human would jump out of an airplane into gunfire. A month after the last exercise he attended, he applied to be switched over to the Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjager branch.

Lieutenant Dreyser's first taste of combat was in April 1940 during the German invasion of Norway. He fought in the battles of Narvik against the Allied forces. His company was pulled back after German forces pushed into his area and was sent to Germany with the 7th Air Division where he invaded Belgium and the Netherlands with his unit, specifically at the fortress at Eben-Emael.

A year later, Dreyser (now an Oberleutnant) led a platoon of Fallschirmjager against the combined Commonwealth and Greek forces stationed on the island of Crete. After the jump, the platoon scrambled to take control of their weapons crate which had landed in British territory. After taking control of their weapons, the paratroopers pushed their way up through enemy territory and found themselves between a British encampment and an anti-aircraft fortification. Dreyser took charge and decided that the destruction of the anti-aircraft emplacements would mean that the Luftwaffe could establish control over nearby Maleme Airfield. Dreyser told his unit to fix bayonets and the machine guns to provide suppression on the fortification. The unit charged up the hill and stopped, and Dreyser ordered grenades to be thrown. Every other man threw a grenade, including himself onto the target. The paratroopers hopped over the sandbags and wooden barricades into the gun battery and came across British troops who had surrendered to them among their dying comrades. He took them as prisoners and requested medics to take care of the wounded enemy soldiers. His troops took highly of their commander as he treated both his men and captives with the respect they deserved and led them from the front instead of commanded them from the rear. His company officer, Major Johann Ecker, received many accolades about Dreyser and commissioned him for his second Iron Cross.

During the occupation of Crete, Generaloberst Kurt Student ordered his paratroopers to kill Greek civilians who had aided the enemy and many of his forces carried out the deadly order. Dreyser's unit along with another was assigned to take out a small village near Maleme. Oberleutnant Dreyser refused to carry out the order, citing that this was a breach of the Geneva Convention – even going as far as to standing in front of the other unit as they were about to shoot; which made his unit follow him. Major Ecker was uneasy about the order and had heard that Dreyser may have to face a military trial about this incident. This made Ecker step in and convince the Feldpolizei to cease their investigation.

In April of 1942, Dreyser was transferred to the FJ-Brigade Ramcke in Northern Africa as part of a push towards the Suez Canal. He fought closely with Italian and German soldiers as they pushed eastward through the deserts. They engaged British forces during both battles of El Alamein. His company was almost eliminated during an attack on British fortifications given by higher ups before Dreyser gave the command to retreat, knowing his forces couldn't last any longer. Dreyser stayed with FJ-Brigade Ramcke until four months before the unit was removed from North Africa in 1943.

Dreyser was then transferred back to his original unit, now known as the 1st Fallschirm-Division, in Italy. In July, the Allies invaded Sicily and fought in the Italian campaign against them for several months. The Oberleutnant was moved back and forth across the frontline before his unit was placed at the hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino. After the battle, he was promoted to Hauptmann. His unit defended the monastery for almost the entirety of the battle before being the unit was substituted and withdrawn in March 1944 and was sent to Normandy, transferred to the 2nd Fallschirm-Division under Ramcke (much to Dreyser's surprise).

His unit receiving much needed rest and relaxation in many trips between Caen and Paris, it was all cut short on the night of June 5th, 1944. Dreyser's unit was stationed outside of Ste-Mere-Eglise just outside of Utah Beach, where scattered American paratroopers landed in the town. On the morning of the 6th of June, his unit pulled back to the outside of Carentan where his forces engaged Easy Company of the 506th PIR. Throughout Normandy, his forces engaged Allied forces as they broke out of Normandy and pushed into Caen.

In late July of 1944, Dreyser's unit received notification from the SS to report to Breslau in German-occupied Poland for weapons testing, the letter mentioning the “extreme honors” that Dreyser and his unit have shown in combat. They went to Paris and flew out to Warsaw and transferred to Breslau. Here they were admitted to a vast secret facility codenamed “Riese”. During this time, they were experimented on by members of Millennium and the entire company of paratroopers was turned into undead vampires. Dreyser and his men were shocked and disgusted that their mortality was ripped away from them without them knowing. After being instituted into Millennium, they were sent back to the front into the 3rd Fallschirm-Division outside of Arnhem, Netherlands. In September, they were shocked to find Allied paratroopers landing in the country and rushed to fight back. During the fighting, they discovered a knocked out train outside of Arnhem. As they came to investigate the train, they found a horrendous sight; dead, malnourished bodies strewn in cattle cars and on the ground. On the ground they also found several SS soldiers and officers, most likely killed by strafing aircraft. Absolutely disgusted, they found a record of the officer's name in charge of the train – an SS-Standartenfuhrer named Dortmann. His unit staged an ambush on Dortmann when they were discovered by a British airborne unit. Convincing the British that they were attacking an SS officer, they joined in the attack, killing Dortmann and his SS guards.

During the fight through France and the Netherlands, Dreyser tried desperately to fight back the Allied powers. In November, Dreyser's unit received notification to report to training with the Abwehr's Brandenburg Panzergrenadier-Division. The Brandenburgers were elite commandos who were skilled at infiltrating enemy lines. The paratroopers reported to the unit and learned newer tactics and commando training. Their skills came in handy during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944 when Dreyser's unit, along with other Brandenburgers landed or infiltrated American lines wearing American uniforms. However, Dreyser's unit was able to infiltrate and complete their mission and extract.

The unit was attached with the 2nd Fallschirm-Division where they fought against the American spearhead into the Ruhr and then fighting against Allied forces until capitulation. Prior to the war's end they were transferred to the Millennium-commissioned Luftwaffe facility in the Harz Mountains, L-13 where they spent the majority of their time in hiding with occasional visits to Millennium command in South America and Africa. It was during this time that Dreyser's company was renamed the 4th Fallschirm-Sturmkompanie.

In 1999, the company was deployed during Millennium's attack on the United Kingdom. Using two Transall C-160 aircraft in German Bundeswehr Luftwaffe livery (the other aircraft was carrying an SS detachment sent to secure another objective), they parachuted into the outskirts of London near RAF Uxbridge. They made their way to the airbase and took it over without any problems after convincing the garrison to stand down. During Millennium's main attack on Britain, Dreyser and his men were not aware of the intended mass genocide that was to be unleashed and were shocked but not surprised. The only person that was excited about it was an SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Richter, a Millennium political officer assigned to the unit with a small squad of Millennium troops to keep it under control. The Fallschirmjager turned against their Millennium supervisors and assisted the garrison to fight back against the main attack in London.

After the Millennium attack, Dreyser's men lived in a farm not far from the base and routinely tried to find ways to stay hidden before surrendering themselves to the Hellsing Organization one month later.