Picking Nits
Sightlines; costumes; Luke subplot; Beca spelling; riff-off rules; Benji’s job; tote bag; DJ gear
In the discussion (10)
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- Proper stage lighting at Alice Tully Hall would prevent Beca from seeing Jesse in the audience.
- The Treblemakers’ clothes look too casual for national competitors, though the final velvet blazers correct the initial hoodie complaint; real competition videos look better dressed.
- Benji’s badly fitting jeans remain awkward under his velvet blazer, possibly deliberately expressing the character.
- Luke and the radio-station plot seem cut down beyond coherence; Jesse and Beca need to bond, but the setting or boss could be replaced.
- Beca’s one-C spelling is mocked as a pretentious college reinvention.
- The riff-off’s word-matching disqualification rules are explained too briefly to follow clearly.
- The nationals costumes still seem raggedy compared with real groups, despite some a cappella traditions of strange coordinated jackets.
- Benji inexplicably works at a distant event and pursues Beca despite no established friendship, merely to uncover the high-school singer.
- The singer’s mother should hide the identifying tote bag if concealing his age; his early departure is also unexplained.
- Beca’s conspicuous public production equipment and awed David Guetta reference make her music hobby needlessly embarrassing.