Well, if I wasn't a mess before this.

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→ I finally got around to watching the penultimate episode of Glee for this season. Warning for SPOILERS and an incredibly biased experience this episode.

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[beckerbell]

Finn's character has really started to bother me this season, which makes me sad, because he was a character I really enjoyed last season. I wanted to like Finn! I went into this season with the best of intentions for him and a strong fondness for him! But too many times he's gone through the same storyline that I just don't have any patience for--Finn has to learn to be a leader, despite that there are other characters there who would be much better at it. The show made moves to show that Sam was a better alpha male character, but then they dropped it... why? Because Finn was there first? And it's the same story TIME AND AGAIN, how Finn has to learn to let go of what other people think of him, man up, and be a leader. I am tired of that story being repeated. I am tired of watching Finn get everything despite that he does nothing to earn it or deserve it, yet whine about how his life is so hard.

I wish I could find a way to be okay with Finn/Rachel, but honestly... any lack of rage on my part isn't that I think they're a cute couple or that I'm okay with it, it's that I'm tired of watching the ping-pong match of Rachel's characterization, too. One week, it's the Rachel I like! The next, it's this horrible person that I want to smack! Just... whatever! I give up! Get them together so they can stop toxifying the other characters I still like! I don't even care that they're horrible to each other, let them go off and do their own thing and then I can just fast forward through all their scenes!

And I honestly don't know what the show is trying to tell us anymore re: Finn getting Quinn to cheat on Sam. The excuse of him trying to "fix" things was such last minute bullshit, so... why did they go there? Was there any acknowledgement from the writers at what he did to her? Was it Finn's revenge for her cheating on him with Puck? Because you can't have Saint Finn and play the "but she cheated on him first!" card. They can't make him such a hypocritical douchebag and not realize it, right? ....dammit, I thought I was over this cognitive dissonance/mindfuck aspect of the series!

And bless you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the funeral parts were touching. The actors really did a terrific job with those scenes and you could just feel Sue's loss and what it's like to lose someone like that. It hurt, but maybe it was a little cathartic, too.

I honestly think Glee is a little too full of itself with the original songs thing. Just. Ugh. No, you are a cover band show. Stop it. Your original songs are stupid.

[beckerbell]

If Finn and Rachel get back together at the end of this season which is very likely, I'm pretty sure we're gonna get another break up at the beginning of next season just because the writers can't seem to make Rachel or Finn relevant to a continuous storyline unless they're pining after one another.

I fully expect this as well, but I'm hopeful that it'll be like how their storyline progressed when they were going through their whole thing in s2--it was isolated enough (not entirely, not nearly as much as I'd like, of course) that I wound up being able to fast forward through their scenes and I was a much happier person for it. At least this way, Quinn will have a chance to be a good character again and I won't have to sit through Jesse/Rachel, knowing I can never really have it for more than five seconds.

I don't understand the writers' attachment to Finn, if they really don't get how awful he's become, if they just don't care, if the way they're set up (with the three writers they have) keeps them from ever making any progress in any real way or if it's that they've painted themselves into a corner where Finn is so tangled up in everyone's storylines now that they HAVE to keep him as the male lead or even if it's just that it's locked into Corey's contract that he's the male lead. I honestly don't understand why they keep giving Finn the storylines they do, but I suppose understanding wouldn't really help. They're going to do what they're going to do. I'm just hoping that there's only one more year of this shit and then they'll change casts and I won't give a shit and then I'll be freeeeee---!!

[beckerbell]

I can live with Finn/Rachel being together and happy (and thus sweeping everything under the rug) if it means they'll be pushed to the background a bit. On the other hand, as long as THEY'RE having the break-up drama, at least they'll stay away from giving the break-up drama to Mike/Tina. Because I would seriously break out the rage gifs for that.

I do wish that they could fix Finn's character if they're going to keep him as the male lead. It's not impossible! I think they just don't want to do anything different. I suspect they've found their comfort zone and don't want to leave it, so they're just going to keep writing the same storyline over and over because THAT is their idea of "consistency" instead of, you know, actual character consistency.

And you are so right that he's REacting to a situation rather than acting and sometimes I think the writers alllllmost realize this, but then, nope, right back to where we started. Ugh, why can't we be free of this show, Zel? WHY?